₦airaland Forum

davidylan:
dont worry, another government will come in and cancel this contract.

Kobojunkie:
I million dollars [/b]for [b]4 schools, a gift? Try harder~~~  COME ON!! This is not about doing business with China or anyone else. This is about looking at this as it truly is.  About $250 thousand per school is not a gift. Jakande structures cost far far less than that to build and those worked fine for years. Calling this a gift is simply feigning ignorance please. That same or less would have been accepted by julius berger to build, if I am not mistaken, so what is the gift in this? This is BUSINESS and BUSINESS that should not be happening at all.

is this a Contract or Aid?

I want to believe that the "kind gesture" is an Aid.

When you are talking about building a modern school and furnishing it, N25 Million is reasonable.

It is not 1million dollars, it is 107 million Naira, that is less than a million dollars considering the official exchange rate of 140:!

Jakumo:
Tsiya, don't you worry about me.  In all my encounters with Nigerian police, I speak in the finest Warri-Waffi broken english, and I pay my highway royalties promptly before being asked.

No problem, we still hav stray bullets. U know our police are not trained well

Jakumo:
Well then, to snap you back to reality, take another look at the picture of the dead fanatic in this thread.  That one example of many is no movie, and that grey matter is REAL.

Well that is the work of Nigerian police. They hav done it several times. They have killed truck and bus drivers because they didnt give them 20 Naira. So they can do more than this. Just pray that you didnt fall the victim of NPF when next you visit Nigeria

sweetpain:
I always believed that everyone should be realistic in their expectation for justice in developing countries with limited means and mass illiteracy especially in cases of clear guilt like this.

What would you have the govt do? Put him in jail and make a hero out of him? That is preparing the ground for an even bigger conflagration and loss of innocent lives.

Money that can be spent on his trial could be use in building good roads for our jeeps.

Just cuddle in ur safety zone and think the govt will build roads for and then you drive ur jeep for safari down the North.

The government would have gotten much vital information from him  about his activities and his organisation and potential organisations. Mohammed Yusuf is just 39, he can not command such organisation without funding and moral backing from some people who make profit or benefit anytime their is crisis in Nigeria. This guy is not a business man. His members are not business men. They must have a source of funding. That is what the government should have focus.

Summarily executing had denied us to know the truth, like many other religious and ethnic crisis in Nigeria.

Jakumo:
If you are not aware of the exploits of Nigerian vigilante men, then you must lead a very sheltered life, assuming you live in Nigeria and not in Shepherds Bush.

Most of the vigilante ppl are patners in crime to Nigerian police and in some cases they are also robbers. Several times they have shown former vigilantee on NTA captured as armed robbers by Nigerian police. But whatever their exploits, that your story sound like a movie.

Jakumo:
An acquaintance of mine in Nigeria has recently been regaling me over the phone with tales of one technique used by volunteer vigilante men to exterminate armed highway robbers.

First,  a coordinating agreement is made with the local police to keep their men away from the designated stretch of road that has been plagued by car-jacking armed robbery gangs.  Next, the vigilantes lock and load their weapons for bear, and they go driving down that highway at night, waiting for the first bobbing flashlight that indicates the location of the gang, who use such flashlight signaling to stop motorists in the same manner practiced by the police nationwide.

The vigilante men open fire as soon as the flashlights are within shotgun range, and the resulting cadavers are buried in the bush, never to stop another car full of innocents again.  That is the reality on the ground in much of Nigeria, and so it will remain for the foreseeable future.   Vermin are ROUTINELY executed without trial in Nigeria, and the country is a marginally safer place as a result of that practice.

This your story sha . . ., If things like this happen, it will be known in Nigeria. This story sound like the one people talk at Ogogoro joints. U dont even know Nigerian police and their vigilantee any more.

Ok let me say this is a gift. I mean it has nothing to do with doing business with us. Wether the Nigerian government like it or not, we must do business with the Chinese. They dont need to build primary schools to get contract in Nigeria. Do they build schools in America or Europe, yet everything u buy now is shipped from China.

common my friend dont be a fake.

After 10 years of intimate relationship, u hv reached the point of cheating. It is not love, u just want to fool around.

U love ur fiance and want to be with her for the rest of your life because of may be all the love, understanding, common interest bla bla bla . . . but when u see that girl, ur VP just cant rest. You love one, u lust many

asha 80:
There are no true friends when money is to be made.

This is help. The Chinese government is not under any international law or obligation to construct primary school in Nigeria or anywhere in Africa.

They are in Nigeria to do Business and Labourer work. We pay them for their labour and they sell us their fake products, we buy, we dont complain.

Kobojunkie:
Jakumo, we are talking of Nigeria here. Even Hitler would have gotten better. No one deserves to be terminated in such a manner, in my opinion.

I hav no doubt Jakumo, like many Nigerians, is another literate savage. They make decision base on only what they feel is right, not within the ambit of law. There is no different between his statement and that of Nigerian police officers.

He should wait until when the long arm of NPF injustice visit his neighbours

Of course there will be another one. This is Nigeria, what do you expect.

The government have no intention or will to solve the problems of religious crisis. Instead of tackling the root cause of the problem, they are there finding scapegoat to punnish.

nex:
The other day, Japan came and built a cold room for vaccines, now China is building four schools at less than $1 million.

These are the things we should praise. The kind of friendship we should appreciate.

The USA and EU keep pledging Billions of Dollars every year, yet there is not a single thing you can point to and say that was by USAID. They claim all sorts of intangible stuff so that they can recycle the money back to their country and claim that one of the corrupt leaders of Africa has pocketed it.

There are 3 countries I appreciate their kind of aid because there are no conditions, no political undertones, just "here! Take cos you need it". That's Canada, Japan and China.

I have to say that u have a valid point here. The USAID have an office in Bauchi but I can categorically tell you, there is no single project of USAID in Bauchi. All the white-elephant project end up in conferences and lectures and indoctorination of peoples culture with their stupid idea of women equality. Last time when I attended one of these stupid conferences, they are complaining that we don't involve women in our politics and they are telling us that Bauchi State governement should apoint 6 female commissioners and judges and bla bla . . , as if that will solve our problem.

When was the last time the British government did anything in Nigeria or any other African country.

Jakumo:
On the contrary, this deranged psychopath, if not terminated with extreme prejudice as has been done with such poetic beauty by the Nigerian police, was hellbent on becoming directly responsible for many more INNOCENT deaths than he and his band of murderers have already claimed.

That heathen ought to have been silenced much earlier than he was, but better late than never, I say.

Most people here are savage. The way they talk about the death of other people it is like they are not human beings. Some because of their hatred for Notherners and Islam in general celebrate blatant brutality and obscene violation of rule of law. The government is suppose to protection by showing good example in governance and following the rule of law.

I am not a supporter of this guy, but the way Nigerians here celebrate open abuse of law and order by the Nigerian police is really a course for alarm. Is it because he come from North?

adamabdul:
@Richyblack
From your comment i think you don't know these people.I am a muslim and i am currently in maiduguri and everybody is happy that these people have been destroyed.These people are not chanting western education is a sin they are as well threatenin to kill anybody who is into western education.
The media has been writing that hundreds of them were killed,why are they not saying that once anybody that belongs to the goverment(police,soldiers,civil servants) is caught by these terrorist is slaughtered the way an animal(ram,sheep,goat) is slaughtered.
Please do not justify the action of these people because they are not even considered muslims by real muslims.

Now I hav problem with you. If you leave in Maiduguri tell me what was the effort your government, the rich people in Maiduguri have done over time to eradicate poverty, provide the basic islamic and western education for most of the people. Is it not Maiduguri that we have Indimi and Mai Daribe (whatever the names are pronounced) that are damn rich but have not contributed a single KOBO to the emancipation of poor people. Rather, they build obsence gold plated houses?

The problem of this BOKO HARAM have nothing to do with their religious affiliation. Most of these hve not provided with education, some have gone to the university because of the classical nigerian university lecturers, some have withdrawn.

Can anyone tell me the policy of the Federal/State Government on Education? Isnt it BOKO HARAM for the poor people? Public Primary and Secondary Schools are like concentration camps. I hav taught in a Primary school in Bauchi, in Dutsen Tanshi Primary School, there is an average of 120 pupils per class. The secondary schools are an average of 150 students per class. 95% of these students have no chance of getting anywhere close to university apart from being a YARO BOY. Im the only person in my primary school class that went beyond secondary education. Not because the rest dont want to, but because they have no means. The government hav abandoned people to the wolf, and when the turn wild, the government come and kill them.

This is just the beginning, unless justice is done for the majority poor people, this cycle will continue.

These 2 guys reflect the general attitude of Nigerians. Literate but uneducated. We scubble over little things that doesn't make sense. Management ability or skills of individuals can not be evaluated by just education qualifications. Nor will past experience in different area be a guarantee of success in another area altogether. Successful organisations are build around people not an individual. The CBN governor can have all the qualifications he need, but he doesn't do all the work. He work with other people. His ability to assemble a team, delegate his responsibilities and evaluate their performance is what distinguish good leaders from good personalities. Everything depends on judgement. What we want is not a person that is good in memorizing text books and lecture notes. We want people capable of making independent thinking and giving good judgement of individual events as they come.

*Hauwa*:
Really? then why are they not going to school? most of my friends left school to get married in primary 4 or 5. why it is so?
AbuZ, ummmmm  

what happen to free will?

There is nothing like free will. There are only privilage. Whereever you are, you just live within certain privilege given to you by the government to operate. There are so many things you cannot do in UK, even though u know they are not bad, neither will they harm anybody, but the government limits your freedom.

davidylan:
When the refineries were being built you people were too busy eating groundnuts so keep quiet.

Why are you interested in Nigeria remaining one by force? Is it that you love us or without oil you'd be no better than the almajiris in Chad?

What we are doing is protecting our interest. The US went to invade a country just to secure its oil resources. We dont need to go that much far. We dont need to amass huge military machines to get the resources we need. We are not cowards. We know what we want that is why we want a 1 Nigeria.