₦airaland Forum

delors: Correct. I was in Angola too then...I remember him always using the PA at the portal's lodge...I remember his flat sole mocassin... And how we would sing his praise - Saburi Saburi high high o...Saburi Saburi high high o...lolz
This is a symbol of determination. Glad to know he is finally a graduate... Mehn, its not easy o.

ya i remember the moccassin and the song mehn. Saburi! saburi!! High! High!! o, aluta! aluta!! high! high!! o. Then i was staying in the down angola, I8.
I saw him last week in new buka. Am happy for him

delors: Correct. I was in Angola too then...I remember him always using the PA at the portal's lodge...I remember his flat sole mocassin... And how we would sing his praise - Saburi Saburi high high o...Saburi Saburi high high o...lolz
This is a symbol of determination. Glad to know he is finally a graduate... Mehn, its not easy o.

ya i remember the moccassin and the song mehn. Saburi! saburi!! High! High!! o, aluta! aluta!! high! high!! o. Then i was staying in the down angola, I8.

coogar: they are in the same category.......forget the hype and the glamour!
the death rate is ridiculous!

no i refuse to take this sir! World grouping is mostly base on economy and production of the nation.

dayokanu: Chicago South side violence already claimed the life of a Nairalander

bawomolo i guess?

Paul John: ^^
How?!

cos i dont take any news from any politician until i make a clear and concrete verification.

That is how they will be pretending to act with no result bt the end of the day.
Form a panel that will request for their own share of the looted fund in bribery and later tell us a useless story.

• Urge EFCC, AGF to appeal
verdict on pension fraud
• CNPP gives govt ultimatum
over Ezekwesili
AN investigation that may reveal
if the administration of the late
President Musa Yar’Adua and that
of his successor, Dr. Goodluck
Jonathan, actually splurged $67
billion is set to be carried out by
the House of Representatives.
The probe is coming on the heels
of an allegation by former Vice
President of the World Bank, Dr.
Oby Ezekwesili, that the two
administrations mismanaged $45
billion in Nigeria’s foreign
reserve as well as another $22
billion excess crude fund left by
the government of former
President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Also, apparently reacting to
public criticisms of the judgment
by the Federal Capital Territory
(FCT) High Court, Abuja, in the
case of Mr. John Yakubu Yusufu
and others undergoing trial for
over N38 billion Police Pension
Fund fraud, the House of
Representatives has urged the
Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) and the
Attorney-General of the
Federation (AGF) to immediately
appeal the decision.
Besides, the Conference of
Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP)
Wednesday handed the Federal
Government a seven-day
ultimatum to either organise a
public debate between the
Minister of Information, Mr.
Labaran Maku or any other
official and Ezekwesili as
demanded by her or issue a
public apology to her in
acceptance of her allegation.
Ezekwesili made the allegation
during her convocation lecture of
the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
The former Minister of Solid
Minerals and later Education
lamented the “squandering of
the significant sum of $45 billion
in foreign reserve account and
another $22 billion in Excess
Crude Account being direct
savings from increased earnings
from oil that the Obasanjo
administration handed over to
the successor government in
2007.”
She stated: “Six years after the
administration I served handed
over such humongous national
wealth to another one, most
Nigerians but especially the poor,
continue to suffer the effects of
failing public health and
education systems as well as
decrepit infrastructure and
battered institutions.”
She then queried: “One cannot
but ask what exactly does
government symbolise with this
level of brazen misappropriation
of public resources? Where did
all that money go? Where is the
accountability for the use of both
these resources and the
additional several hundred
dollars realised from oil sale by
the two administrations that
have governed our nation in the
last five years? How were these
resources applied or more
appropriately misapplied? Tragic
choices.”
In adopting a motion sponsored
by Umar Bature (PDP, Sokoto), the
House directed its Committees in
charge of Finance and
Appropriation to jointly
investigate the allegation.
Defending his motion, Bature
said the House needed to
conduct the investigation
because of the background of
Ezekwesili as Special Adviser to
the President on Public
Procurement as well as Minister
of Education.
The Presidency has, however,
dismissed the allegation as false.
The Senior Special Assistant to
the President on Public Affairs,
Dr. Doyin Okupe, said that as at
May 2007, a total of $
43,130,301,995.21 was left
behind in the Foreign Exchange
Reserve (FER) account by former
President Obasanjo.
According to Okupe, between
June 2007 and December 2008,
the FER stood at $
53,000,355,063.51, and in 2009,
the account came down to $
42,382,493,319.69 due to the
global economic meltdown. In
2010, the account was $
32,339,252,389.10 after the
commitment of the Federal
Government to the Independent
Power Project (IPP) and the Niger
Delta crisis, which caused a drop
in oil export.
In 2011, the figure was N32,
639,777,078.09 while in 2012
the FER rose to $
43,830,418,364.91 as at
December and then rose again to
$45.3 billion as at January 22,
2013.
Okupe added: “I regret to say
that Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili should
show dignity and character by
letting the Nigerian people,
whom she sought out to fool, to
know the source of her figures
otherwise, she should be
honourable enough to retract
her statement and apologise to
the government and people of
Nigeria.”
The House said the monumental
fraud in the Police Pension Fund
had resulted in untold hardship
for police pensioners who had
had their pensions unpaid for
many months.
Adopting a motion on the urgent
need to revisit the case brought
by the House Minority Whip,
Samson Osagie and nine others,
the House also called on the
National Assembly to set a
machinery in motion to review
the provisions of the penal and
criminal codes to provide stricter
punishment in such cases.
“The EFCC and AGF should, as a
matter of urgency, appeal the
judgment of Justice Abubakar
Talba of the FCT High Court in the
case of the State Vs Mr. John
Yusufu and others, with a view
to seeking stricter punishment
for the offence under Section
309 of the Penal Code Act Cap
532 Laws of the Federal Capital
Territory Abuja, 2007,” it said.
Leading debate on the motion,
Osagie had faulted the decision
of the FCT High Court and urged
the parliament to intervene,
adding that pension was a
matter that ought to be treated
with utmost respect.
“As the people’s representatives,
we cannot keep quiet over the
matter. This is not good for our
criminal justice system, especially
as it borders on the fight against
corruption.
“It is repugnant and
unacceptable to good
conscience. Stiffer punishment
should be meted out else others
will toe the same line. It is not
good for our democracy.
“This sort of judgment of a court
can only serve as an incentive for
public officers entrusted with
management of public fund to
commit more acts of corruption
as the judgment in this case did
not meet the justice of the
matter, given the huge amount
of fraud committed by Mr. John
Yusufu in the Police Pension
Fund.
“This judgment has been widely
criticised by both lawyers and
civil society groups. It has been a
slap on the wrist as the sentence
ought to be stricter to deter
other public officers from
meddling with public funds,” the
lawmaker said.
The majority of other members,
including Emmanuel Jime, Femi
Gbajabiamila and Jerry Manwe,
also spoke on the motion.
However, members, including Ali
Madaki, Khamil Akinlabi and Dan
Abia, cautioned the parliament
against dabbling in a matter that,
according to them, was clearly
outside the purview of the
chamber.
In their separate submissions,
the lawmakers argued that the
decision of the high court was
within the ambit of the extant
laws of the country.
When the Speaker, Aminu Waziri
Tambuwal put the question on
the motion, the resolution was
overwhelmingly adopted in a
voice vote.
The House also has mandated its
Committee on Federal Capital
Territory (FCT) to investigate the
alleged inhuman activities of the
companies commissioned by the
FCT Administration to enforce
motor parking regulations and
parking fees collection in Abuja .
The companies commissioned by
the Bala Mohammed-led FCT
administration for this purpose
in the Federal City include
Integrated Parking Services Ltd
and Platinum Parking
Management Services Ltd.
But adopting a motion
introduced by Odebunmi
Olusegun Dokun on the matter
yesterday, the House expressed
worry over the inability of
motorists to identify the
particular company or agent
overseeing a particular area
because different companies
seem to be at war over who is in
charge.
The parliament noted that Abuja
as the capital city of Nigeria
should be managed in such a
way that it would become a
source of pride for every
Nigerian.
The CNPP’s ultimatum was sequel
to the challenge to public debate
thrown by Ezekwesili in
connection with her allegation of
monumental corruption.
The CNPP noted that it was
alarmed that instead of
responding to the grave
allegation made by the former
minister, the Presidency tepidly
avoided the public debate
challenge.
In a statement issued yesterday
in Abuja, the CNPP National
Publicity Secretary, Osita
Okechukwu, described as
unjustifiable, the Federal
Government’s reactions to
Ezekwesili’s allegation and
challenge as a deliberately
calculated albeit unsuccessful
effort to bring the Jonathan
administration to disrepute
He noted that for the avoidance
of doubt, many public
commentators and anti-
corruption crusaders, as well as
the CNPP had severally bemoaned
the pervasive corruption in the
land, which included the culture
of impunity which had existed in
the country in the last 13 years.
The CNPP said that this debate
was absolutely necessary and a
matter of urgent national
importance based on the fact
that Ezekwesili was not only a
former vice president of the
World Bank, but she also served
as a minister of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria and once
headed the Bureau of Public
Procurement in the country.
The CNPP also noted that the fact
that Maku had also levelled
allegations of monumental
corruption against the former
minister had added more
urgency to the debate.
“It is our view that a public
debate challenge of this nature
must not be overlooked by the
Federal Government, especially
bearing in mind that even the ex-
president, Chief Olusegun
Obasanjo under which Mrs.
Ezekwesili served, had serially
labelled the President Goodluck
Jonathan regime as incurably
corrupt. We are deeply
concerned that the splash of
mud on the image of the country
can only be wiped out if the
government musters the political
will to convoke the public debate
as requested.
“To do otherwise will further
tarnish the image of the country
and discourage direct foreign
investment, which we badly
need. For us, corruption is a
major contentious issue and
there is no better time than this
for the Jonathan administration
to use the public debate to erase
the epitaph of engraving its
name in the hall of infamy as the
most corrupt regime in the
annals of the country.
“Now that the opportunity has
offered itself for the government
to cleanse itself or allow the
good people of Nigeria to go
home with the impression that
the regime is absolutely corrupt,
it will be regrettable if the
government denies us, indeed
itself this golden opportunity
“Also, there is no better platform
for Mrs. Ezekwesili to disclose her
source and substantiate her
grave allegations than the
debate.
“In sum, we challenge President
Jonathan to convoke this debate
within seven days or we stand
on Mrs. Ezekwesili’s allegation to
prosecute the government for
unbridled and wanton looting of
the national treasury,” CNPP
charged.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=112042:reps-probe-alleged-misuse-of-67-billion-by-two-govts&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

wont be surprised if this is a mere propraganda.

do we also need a quota system here?
Even in Federal government institution, merit is still to an extent placed priority on than catchment area.

why didn't he call for this earlier while he was the VP and see if he would live to call for it naw.
I dey laff o for a man that had a better definition for corruption than any dictionary when he was the VP now forming an activist just because of 2015.

coogar: not surprised, america is a 3rd world country

you are getting me confused what a 3rd world country is, cos if USA is a 3rd world country, then nigeria should be among the 100th world countries (if anything like that exists)

coogar: the governor of chicago should be made to answer for this.

rather the governor of Illinois.
Imagine this in USA! If it were to be in other African countries or middle east that has these incessant homicides, they would link it with al quedah and blacklist the country telling their citizens to be careful of the country.

i remember 2006/2007 session when he was the president while i was a fresher staying in angola hall, he would come to the portals lodge with the speaker of the house, Karl Marx, to announce how the aluta will go saying 'greatest angolans, articulate angolans, the voice u are listening to is the voice of Akinola Saburi aka malcom X(we all echoed the aka malcom X)'.
The guy is no more tiny cos he is now chubby. The guy was active and aluta oriented during his time.
12years is a small year compared to Anthony Fasayo's 21, Dr 3As(dunno if he has even graduated) and others.
The guy wise sha, cos during his suspension period, he went to Ibadan polytechnic to acquire his HND.

if i am the president of nigeria,
i wont be as FIGUREHEAD as TAFAWA BALEWA,
TRUST nobody like AGUIYI IROSIN
FORCE UNIONISM on the tribes like YAKUBU GOWON,
be REFORMATIVE as MURITALA MUHAMED,
NONTRIBALISTIC as OLUSEGUN OBASANJO
CORRUPTION FREE as SHEHU SHAGARI
DETEST INDICIPLINE like MOHAMED BUHARI
wont DRIBBLE my nation like IBRAHIM BABANGIDA
wont be as STUPID as ERNEST SHONEKAN
wont CLAIM the public found to my family like SANI ABACHA
as FAITHFUL as ABDUSALAM ABUBAKAR
as COMMANDING as OLUSEGUN OBASANJO
wont be SLOW in action as UMARU MUSA YAR ADUA
wont be CLUELESS as JONATHAN.

musiwa7: yar adua i dont think wasted nigeria money,


Yar adua was called baba go slow because he was too slow in spending the money,

While Goodluck became baba goospend. It is goodluck who have spend nigeria money.

common with this your unwarranted assumption and ignorantium.
So far Jonathan was the vice president doesn't mean he was at the helm of affairs of the government. We all know Jonathan was a puppet to Madam Turai Yar' adua when Umaru Yar'adua was sick, Turai was the one ruling. Till Umaru died, even as the acting president, he was not allowed to know anything about the president's health status even a mere visitation was deprived of him.
If you had said he squandered the money during his tenure as the acting president, that would still worthy of acceptance but claiming he was spending the money when he wasn't installed as the acting president seems to come from a ignorance.

task force again?
What an administration bereaved of idea and intelligence. Setting up a task force on what a member of the past administration said. Does the president want to claim he is naive of the treasury in question or the spending. Must there be a committee for every blemish.
This is real cluelessness.

THE Nigeria Football
Federation yesterday dolled
out US $30,000 to each
member of the Super Eagles
for qualifying for the quarter
final of the 2013 Africa Cup
of Nations.
CELEBRATION . . . Super
Eagles defender Efe
Ambrose (2nd R)
celebrates with an
acrobatic display after
Nigeria defeated Ethiopia
2-0 in their last Group C
match of AFCON 2013 at
CELEBRATION . . . Super
Eagles defender Efe
Ambrose (2nd R) celebrates
with an acrobatic display
after Nigeria defeated
Ethiopia 2-0 in their last
Group C match of AFCON
2013 at the Royal Bafokeng
stadium in Rustenburg.
Photo: AFP
The Super Eagles yesterday
defeated Ethiopia 2-0 in a
tension soaked match played
in Rustenburg. The Eagles
qualified alongside Burkina
Faso from Group D.
Burkina Faso on the other
hand ended their tie with
Zambia 0-0 at the Mbombela
Stadium, Nelspruit. The result
ensured the elimination of
Zambia that ended third in
the log with 3 points from
three matches.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/01/eagles-get-30000-each/

ABUJA—President Goodluck
Jonathan has approved
distribution of $1billion from
the excess crude account
among the 36 States and FCT.
This was part of decisions
taken at the National
Economic council at its first
meeting for the year.
Governor of Rivers State
Rotimi Amaechi who briefed
newsmen after the meeting
said there is a total balance
of $9.242 billion, in the
excess crude account after $
1billion was spent on
subsidy payments by the
Federal Government.
Governor Amaechi said the
council was briefed by the
Minister of State for Finance,
Dr. Yerima Ngama.
He said the Minister of
National Planning, Dr.
Shamsuddeen Usman, also
presented a memo to the
Council on the status of the
on-going implementation of
the States GDP Computation
programme embarked upon
by the Commission, the
National Bureau of Statistics,
the Governors’ Forum and
the States.
The governor said the
Minister informed the Council
that following the successful
completion of the flag-off of
the State GDP computation in
the six pilot states, the NBS is
now working closely with
the States’ statistical
bureaux/agencies to conduct
the survey and publication of
data on the GDP computation
for the six states. The states
include Niger, Rivers, Gombe,
Anambra, Kano and Lagos.
The governor quoted the
Minister as saying that the
States’ GDP computation
programme is being
implemented in two phases
with the first phase which
covers the six pilot States in
each of the geopolitical
zones due to be completed
in April.
The second phase of the
programme, the governor
said, is to cover the
remaining States, from April
– December, 2013.
He said the Council reiterated
the endorsement it had
given to the roadmap, when
the matter was first
presented to NEC in July
2010.
The Council encouraged the
States to work closely with
the National Planning
Commission and the NBS to
address the identified
capacity and infrastructure
related gaps in the States’
Statistical Bureau and
Planning Commissions in
order to ensure the
sustainability of the States
GDP computation
programme in Nigeria.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/01/excess-crude-account-states-get-1bn/

The Hague Civil Court on Wednesday rejected a suit against Royal Dutch Shell brought by a group of Nigerian farmers over an oil leak, saying that only local subsidiary Shell Nigeria was responsible and ordering the latter to compensate one farmer.
By News Wires (text)


A Dutch court on Wednesday rejected a bid by a group of Nigerian farmers to have Shell's parent company held responsible for oil damage, saying only subsidiary Shell Nigeria was responsible for one oil leak.

The court "dismissed all claims against the parent companies... since pursuant to Nigerian law a parent company in principle is not obliged to prevent its subsidiaries from harming third parties abroad," judge Henk Wien told the court.

Environmental groups had hoped that a ruling against Anglo-Dutch Shell, which is headquartered in the Netherlands, could set a precedent for global responsibility and open the door for hundreds of similar claims.

Judge Wien said however that Shell's Nigerian subsidiary must pay damages to the farmers and fishermen in one of their claims, relating to oil spills near the Niger Delta village of Ikot Ada Udo.

"Shell Nigeria has been sentenced to pay damages in one of the cases. All claims in the other four proceedings have been dismissed," Wien said.

http://www.france24.com/en/20130130-hague-court-rejects-nigerian-suit-royal-dutch-shell-oil

nonsence

i tire for all these directives with no meaningful execution at the end of the day just because the senate want to pretend to act.
An interesting part of the story is either they want their own share of the fund through bribery(farouk lawan things), or they sincerely want the fund to be collected so that they can share it among themselves at the end of the day(national cake)

Good, hearing you believe in Nigeria but Better you know that her development hangs on you.
Rome was neva built in a day and most interesting part of Romes building project still continues till eternity by the joint and collective works of the Romans and her well wishers not minding that Rome is a geographical location that needs being abandon and treated with levity.
The unity of nigeria is very paramount so that the landlord of the house won't be a tenant in the house he used to boast of owing(i.e a biafran won't be a foreigner in Lagos) when the country dissociates into its various ions.

demmy: Nigeria was not owing when Obasanjo left. And he left over 30 billion dollars in reserve.

hammer it to their hearing

demmy: Insanity.

insanity is just an understatement!

they may not ceasefire but what I need is they should ceasebomb cos many people are dieing daily.

So unfortunate that the GEJ
administration is yet to
understand a tactical approach
of dealing with issues like this
rather than using an attack dog.
Obi Ezekwizili challenged the
government to a presidential
debate, but decided to turn
down the challenge. I
understand 'he who fights and
run leaves to fight another day'.
She was called upon to provide
her source of the allegation just
as if she wasn't part of the
Obasanjo's administration. If
they can't believe her, that means
we have no reason to believe
Okonjo Iweala, Labaran Maku
and Doyin Okupe himself.
Why does every criticism against
the government has to be a
means to bring down the
administration as claimed by Mr
Doyin. Government is not a metal
that is electroplated preventing it
from attacks but a standing tree
whose ability to withstand any
directional wind depends on the
firmness of its roots and rigidity
of its stem. They don't need
feeling paranoid on every
criticism if they are justified by
their work backup with perfect
evidence and fact.
But their is not always smoke
without fire. Can it be that Oby is
being used as weapon by
someone hidden somewhere?
Because sometimes i wonder
why she decides using this time
of allegations and counter-
allegation political climate to
drop the bombshell so as to
weaken or expose the weakness
of the administration.

but the source of the news is in OSUNDEFENDER(observation anyway. No offence).
Anything/body is just asking for amnesty. Anyway, i dont blame them cos we are all entitled to the national cake not the politicians alone but they shouldn't have gone through the violent, evil and animalistic means with no meaningful purpose.

Though seems like a prophecy to the apostel, but a prediction based on the knowledge of present circumstances and how it will affect the future to me. Cos most of these things he mentioned have been showing a signs/signal of happening since last year. But the prophect is smart enough to make prayer the changing factors.
Not as if i don't believe in prophecy o, but i don't swing bt any prediction calling it prophecies cause these are what i can also predict.
Seems some pastors are inspired by dictionary in naming their church nowadays rather than the Holy Spirit.

So unfortunate that the GEJ administration is yet to understand a tactical approach of dealing with issues like this rather than using an attack dog. Obi Ezekwizili challenged the government to a presidential debate, but decided to turn down the challenge. I understand 'he who fights and run leaves to fight another day'.
She was called upon to provide her source of the allegation just as if she wasn't part of the Obasanjo's administration. If they can't believe her, that means we have no reason to believe Okonjo Iweala, Labaran Maku and Doyin Okupe himself.
Why does every criticism against the government has to be a means to bring down the administration as claimed by Mr Doyin. Government is not a metal that is electroplated preventing it from attacks but a standing tree whose ability to withstand any directional wind depends on the firmness of its roots and rigidity of its stem. They don't need feeling paranoid on every criticism if they are justified by their work backup with perfect evidence and fact.
But their is not always smoke without fire. Can it be that Oby is being used as weapon by someone hidden somewhere? Because sometimes i wonder why she decides using this time of allegations and counter-allegation political climate to drop the bombshell so as to weaken or expose the weakness of the administration.

UFE in Ijesha and Ekiti dialect.
IFE in Oyo dialect.
But in my own language, it doesn't exist!
In a frustrated guys language, it is called nonsence.
In a prostitutes language, it is called MONEY.
In a christian's language, it is called GOD.
In a playboy's language, it is called TOTO(p things).
In nairaland's language, it is called GARRI!
In BOKO HARAM'S language, it is called BOMB.

That means it is close to reverse which is bound to happen at anytime near.

Eziachi: Yes, as long as Somalia is not blaming Sudan for its self inflicted woes no problem. Which is what is a daily way of life in Nigeria.
After all these years, all this experiences, past and present, some with their head well screwed, still thinks that Nigeria will ever make progress a one nation ruled from one source?

Its like telling the Italian, the British, the French that their capital is now in Berlin and a German is their calling all the shots, how will that work?
Even the British are very itchy with an economic union, let alone been structured like Nigeria, a one country, whose components has little or nothing in common and love to hate each other.

No matter how you patched up a broken egg, its waste of time, energy, when every facet of Nigeria still derives some sort of sadistic kicks from the agony or even misfortune of others.
No house divided itself has ever stand. Nigerias hate each other in 2013 than they did in 2012 and its it will be so in 2014.

k! The british, italian german having their capital in berlin is not a related issue cos they never one in time had a common political system as a country. A typical example you should have cited is the Spain and its autonomous craving regions like basque and catalonia will do.
Anyway 'a ki n fi agidi do oko ti ko le'(one doesn't force herself to fork a fail to erect prick). If separation is the best solution to nigerian problem, all well and good.

What is happening to this old man?
He kept on telling us that every election that was held in nigeria has flaws and was full of rigging. Yes, accepted they were. But why does he need to close his eyes and shy away from the fact that all those states which the electoral result showed us that he won were not free and fair also. The election in the states were also massively rigged for him or does he want to say the states are not part of nigerian corrupt system?
So far he lost in a presidential election contest doesn't mean he should start making a threat that may distabilize the nation's climate. presidency is not a do or die affair or does he want to tell us his interest is 100% about the developement of the nation.