₦airaland Forum

mcvaeey:
you know I've never been spoken to in this manner before. You sound very mature. I promise from now on I'll stop promoting tribalism. Even though I don't know you but this is my promise to you. Nigeria would be a better place if they were more like you.

Yeah, that will be good bro and i am from the south western part of the country.

mcvaeey:
Bunch of jokers. Igbos are petty thieves. Who would want to entrust a position in the hands of a petty thief? These are people that have always shown why they can never be trusted. I thought they said they wanted to engage the Nigerian army. So they are now resorting to prayer warriors? . You yeebos will never cease to amuse me. Try yourself and you'll test the full strength of the Nigerian army.

Why must you do this.. Why must you attack people with words that can frustrate them. Every tribe have their own flaws be it Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba. Instead of us to fight all these Politicians that came from all the four cardinal point, you are here attacking Igbo.. This has to stop my brother..

This is serious, the Igbo are tired of the way things are been run in the country but there is one fact they all need to deal with which is will all the Igbo juggernaut be part of the Biafra. Still waiting for one the Igbo bigwig calling the shot to voice out concerning this struggle of Biafra.

Now that they have turn to God concerning this, I pray God grant them their answer ASAP.

It is lucid that the ratio of police to people is very small and when crimes are been commited it will still takes police some times to get to the scene. Which is why this is a good idea.

In as much as this will still put food on some people tables if come to fruition, i am supporting Baba on this.

On CCTV installing CCTV is not the problem but effective, efficient usage and the cost of maintenance would be the problem. I hope they look into this..

Sai Baba

Yes

OP.. Sauce nah

Oshio seriously there is no need to pass the buck on PDP for your own performance.

NDDC dismisses allegations of missing N183.7bn as untrue

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/nddc-dismisses-allegations-of-missing-n183-7bn-as-untrue/

Seriously things are getting interesting, i just hope Buhari look deeply into things before taking action.

The ministry of finance was accused of diverting the money meant for kaduna-Lagos railway project but the ministry came out to deny such.

There is need be for proper investigation.

As the Presidency beams its searchlight on how the Niger Delta Development Commission allowed individuals and companies to make away with N183.7 billion as advanced payments for contracts not yet executed, two top politicians in the National Assembly are being fingered as the arrowheads of the huge loss of public fund.

Top officials of the commission, who tried to explain what led to how the money was lost, blamed the two influential politicians in the NASS of using their positions to corner more than 50 percent of the contracts in the controversial commission.

A director in the commission, who spoke to Vanguard in confidence on Sunday, regretted that the two ‘powerful politicians’ used their membership of the National Assembly committee on the NDDC to influence the award of multi-million Naira contracts to themselves and their cronies.

The director pointed out that the two men-a Senator and a House of Representatives member, used the name of a former president and his wife to intimidate the management and board of the NDDC to award mouth-watering jobs to their companies, claiming to be acting on the instruction of the first family.

The official explained to Vanguard in an interview that the two men virtually relocated to the commission prior to the last election and dictated to the management which contract should be awarded to their cronies and what amount should be paid to them as mobilisation fees.

“The events in the commission in recent months were beyond the control of the Management and board of the NDDC. They were virtually forced to award huge contracts and pay for such even before they were carried put. That is the truth,” a top management staff of NDDC confessed.

“These men actively used their positions in the NASS and their claimed closeness to a former president and his wife to corner most of the jobs and we could not do much to resist them.

“The problem now is that it is the management and the board that have to bear responsibility for the activity of the politicians who have since gone under and pretending as if they know nothing about what they did concerning contract awards in the commission,” the source said.
Although it was not clear last night what President Muhammadu Buhari would do about the Auditor-General’s Report accusing NDDC of not accounting for the N184 billion it collected from the treasury, sources hinted that the Presidency was furious about the loss of huge loss of public funds to a few individuals.

A source close to the Presidency said last night that the President had been fully briefed by the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, OSGF, which supervises the NDDC even before the AGF came up with the huge amount being mismanaged at the commission and would soon react to the development in the interest of the people of the Niger Delta and Nigeria.

The source did not however give the nature of the action to be taken by the Federal Government about the development in the c
ommission.

It was also learnt that the NDDC had begun some spirited moves to explain how the amount was ‘lost’ to contractors and what it was doing to recover the amount, since it was covered under an Advanced Payment Guaranty by banks.

The total contractual liability of the NDDC stands at N800 billion as at June this year.
The Managing Director of the NDDC, Mr. Dan Abia, could not be reached for comments on the issue as he was said to have travelled to Abuja for some meetings.

The spokesman for the NDDC, Mr. Ibitoye Abosede had distanced himself from the issue of contract-splitting in the commission running into billions of Naira, and declined to comment on it when contacted by Vanguard.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/presidency-angry-with-2-ssouth-lawmakers-over-n184-b-nddc-scam/

Sigh!! Not a good way to start a new week.

God may you continue to protect us, our family as we are going out and coming in.

They had never envisaged such..

So the agrrieved people thinks the exercise which is been carry out by Ibe not to fight corruption but to act as cover up. What are they covering, why are the covering it?? these are questions that need to be asked.

Since the new sherrif has already explain why the need be for the restructuring why are they trying to hold the country by the jugular threatening down tools.

This is to confirm to all that keep babbling that Baba dont even know you are doing so hence the need be for you to remain tong-tied.

No matter the amount of pressure people are trying to inject into Baba, Baba will never cave in.

Call it Witch-Hunt, Call it Wizard-hunt. Wail, scream, cry that Baba is lopsided in his mission to mow corruption. It wont still change anything.

It is very simple this will serve as example to others who thinks they can come and run the country ragged.

It will even make those that Baba will anoint to walk and work with him not to engage in things that will soil their name for we all know the era of "chop and walk freely" don go, we don dey for the era of "chop and be accountable for what you chop"

I pray Baba God grant those that will not be happy about this more strength for they have 4years to babble...

W.A.C..... War Against Corruption.

Good

I pray God grant you more strength to continue this for you still have 4years to babble...

By Clifford Ndujihe

IGBO Leaders on the banner of the Igbo Leaders of Thought (ILT), yesterday, insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari is being influenced by some former leaders in his anti-graft crusade and challenged him to prove otherwise by waging a holistic war against graft.

Responding to a paper by the ILT written by Professor Ben Nwabueze (SAN) that instead of limiting his searchlight to Dr Goodluck Jonathan administration, Buhari should also probe the General Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Olusegun Obasanjo and Umaru Musa Yar’Adua regimes and that he was being influenced by some of these leaders, the President said he could not be tele-guided by anybody.

Speaking through Mallam Shehu Garba, his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, President Buhari said he is not being tele-guided by anybody and that he would not a deaf ear to the looting of public treasury and crude oil theft. He also said he would not stop the anti-corruption agencies from doing their work.

However, the ILT in a statement by its Deputy Secretary, Evangelist Elliot Uko, yesterday, said that Mallam Shehu avoided the real points in his response.
His words: ”The anti corruption war and probe in order to recover our stolen common wealth is not only needful, but commendable. Nigerians know that the only pathway to restoring sanity, probity and accountability to governance in our much battered and so much abused nation is to carry out the exercise in a holistic manner without granting a clean bill of health on the 1999-2007 regime or any other regime since returning to civil rule in 1999.

” The insinuation that Mr. President is scared of probing the 1999-2007 is a by-product of the statement from the presidency that only the Jonathan regime is targeted for probe. Had the presidency announced that sordid affairs located within the 1999-2007 regime will also be looked into, Nigerians will not have formed the opinion that ex president Obasanjo is not only above the law, but that his larger than life image hovering over the Buhari presidency will obviously make it extremely difficult if not out-rightly impossible for president Buhari to be objective, unbiased and upright especially in the probe of corruption in our polity.

”Nigerians are wondering why the monumental fraud and sleaze that occurred between 1999-2007 is about to be swept under the carpet while our government’s only area of interest begins some where after 2009. Truth is bitter, and this truth is also obvious to all Nigerians over 20 years of age; that the 1999-2007 PDP led government laid the foundation for all the other regimes after it. Nigerians know that the sleaze under that regime stink to high heavens. Any fight against corruption and probe and recovery of stolen funds that exempts the 1999-2007 regime is tainted, selective, and a confirmation of the large influence of the “invisible government” in our polity.

”The Igbo Leaders of Thought did not say that president Buhari is teleguided. The Igbo Leaders of Thought identified the over-bearing influence, powers and connections of past heads of state who played very key roles in the emergence of President Buhari in March this year and wondered how he expects Nigerians to believe him when his aides point at “distraction” as the only reason he is avoiding probing the 1999-2007 POP government.

”Nobody believes that. Everybody knows that the rat cannot probe the cat. Some past Leaders’ shadows are hovering over president Buhari. He is clearly constrained by certain factors.

”This factors will certainly affect the credibility of the probe and recovery exercise if it is only targeted at the last regime. The issues raised by the Igbo Leaders of Thought represents the thought and views of millions of Nigerians who share the opinion that the only way sanity would be restored in our country is to make the exercise a holistic, unbiased and all-inclusive one. The very point Alhaji Garba Shehu cleverly avoided in his response. Nobody said Buhari is teleguided.

Nigerians merely want the probe and recovery of stolen funds to date back to 1999. That is the only way Nigerians, the international community and indeed future generations will agree the exercise is not a witch -hunt.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/prove-you-are-not-being-influenced-igbo-leaders-tell-buhari/

omolami:
Wole Soyinka is wrong after all. Buhari is still the leopard that won't change its skin colour. He is a failure, fraudster and dictator. My only hope that NASS is taking notes of these impeachable offences

A failure.. How?
A fraudster.. Has he ever dupe you?
If the NASS dont take note, you can help in doing that...

NgeneUkwenu:
Sorry! Take handkerchief!

hahahahaha why now. This is wicked..

Splashme:
Nigeria is at a crossroad. The country is so directionless and more like without a leader.

Buhari is confused and does not even understand how to go about governance. They are now using anti-corruption as cover-up

please brother how do you come to a conclusion that the country is at a crossroad.

Do you know the rate at which people are happy just because of the corruption Buhari is hell bent on mowing

Breaking News...

Chelshit have been raped

And the lamentation continue from PDP. This people should just please keep mum and get their act right for they are deteriorating day by day.

What a shame, so PDP can come out to say the FG wanted to use INEC to capture Kogi and Bayelsa, why are they afraid or is it what theyhave been doing for the last 16years of their maladministration.

And for PDP to say they nurture and sustain democracy for 16years really wants to make me puke. Do they think we are dolt. PDP did not nurture and sustain democracy, they only nurture and sustain CORRUPTION.

Seriously the stone that hit PDP on march 28 really cause a lot of damages..

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), after a thorough review of the political developments in the country since the All Progressives Congress (APC) took office at the center, alerts all Nigerians and the international community that all is not well with the nation’s democracy.

The party said this fear is derived from the facts of some conscious actions and inactions of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government that undermine critical institutions of democracy, emasculate the constitution and ostensibly set the stage for a return of dictatorial regime in Nigeria.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a statement on Sunday said despite claims of being a converted democrat, President Buhari has allowed, under his watch, an incessant violation of sections of the nation’s constitution, a development that has become a huge threat to democracy and the stability of the nation.

“For instance, how can this government explain the fact that a major institution of democracy like the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been deliberately debilitated to the extent that it can no longer perform its statutory responsibility for lack of quorum?

“Nigerians are aware that before his tenure expired on June 30th, the former INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega wrote to President Buhari, intimating him of the fact that the tenure of majority of the national commissioners will expire before August, yet the President never acted, resulting in the present crisis in the commission, where more than 80% out of the statutory 13 members remain vacant, even as eleven states of the federation are also without Resident Electoral Commissioners.

“We note that this anomaly is in addition to the uncertainty surrounding the controversial appointment of an Acting Chairman of INEC in the person of a national commissioner whose tenure has since expired, not minding that there is no provision for an acting chairman of INEC in our constitution.

“This development has completely enervated the commission from carrying out its functions as stipulated in part 1 of 3rd schedule of the 1999 constitution as amended, thereby putting our electoral system under severe threat.

“We ask, if not for a possibility of an ulterior motive to inject a constitutional crisis and undermine the nation’s democracy, why should President Buhari wait to be urged before he upholds his responsibility of forwarding replacements to the Senate for confirmation so as to enable the commission effectively carry out its constitutional responsibilities to the nation?

“Could this be a ploy by the APC-led government to use a decapitated INEC to conduct the forthcoming governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa to pave way for their planned ‘capture’ of the two PDP states?

“Is the weakening of INEC not part of the plot to use the commission to put the PDP in precarious position in various electoral tribunals to the advantage of the APC?

“In view of the developments, the PDP, as a party that nurtured and sustained democracy in Nigeria for 16 years, beckons on all lovers of democracy within and outside the country, to rise up to the occasion and impress it on President Buhari and his APC to imbibe, in its totality, the tenets of democracy and the rule of law in the general interest of our dear nation.

“In raising this alarm about disturbing national issues, we however wish to reiterate our earlier position that the PDP, as a responsible and patriotic political party, is not in anyway averse to the fight against corruption, as long as it is carried out within the ambits of the due process of the law.

“Our nation is a state built on the principles of freedom and social justice; the essentials of democracy, where ‘sovereignty belongs to the people, from whom government, through the constitution derives all its powers and authority’ for the good of all, irrespective of creed, class, political, ethnic or gender considerations; tenets that must be protected and upheld at all times.

“Finally, we call on some well-meaning Nigerians who have found themselves in the APC, especially, those who at one time or the other, were pupils of the teachings and visions of the founding fathers of the PDP, to rise above the shallowness of their temporary enclave and join in this major defence of democratic ethos”.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/pdp-raises-alarm-says-apc-undermining-democracy/

Lalasticlala, Ishilove

PassingShot:
Their cup of tea.

make dem dey drink am ... LOL

Ahead of the December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa, the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in the State have lamented the mass exodus of its members to the All Progressives Congress(APC).

State acting-chairman of the PDP, Chief Serena Dokubo-Spiff said in a statement late Saturday in Yenagoa, that those who defected to the APC at a rally held over the weekend in the state capital were a huge disappointment and embarrasement to the PDP.

The party regretted that the defectors, among them, Col. Sam Inokoba(rtd.) the immediate past state chairman of the PDP, were a big disappointment to the party and the Ijaw nation, because they benefitted immensely from the party.

“The conduct of the defectors has clearly shown that their defection was largely driven by greed and for personal aggrandizement.
“The defectors are “yesterday’s men and women” who no longer have electoral value and as such the PDP will not miss them,” the statement said.

Dokubo-Spiff described the defectors as enemies of the party, who secretly sponsored candidates against the PDP in the last State House of Assembly election and worked with the opposition to betray Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP at the last presidential election.

He said: “These crop of politicians can not be regarded as dependable nor should they be celebrated by the APC as political assets because they were never at anytime with us.

“Suffice to say that no member of the PDP in the state or any of the party’s organ was part of this charade called a mega rally. The PDP in Bayelsa State is intact. All the structures and organs of the party at all levels are fully intact.”
Dokubo-Spiff said that the PDP was not perturbed in anyway, stressing that the defectors were never with the party because they were forces who have lost their bearings in the politics of the state.

“For instance, the former PDP chairman, retired Col. Sam Inokoba, who was one of the defectors has since being suspended by our party on acts bothering on corruption and anti-party.

“Is that the kind of character the APC is celebrating and welcoming into its fold? It is so unfortunate that the APC in Bayelsa has attracted into its fold a congregation of persons with well known track record of violence and political brigandage”, he said.
The statement berated the defectors as lacking in principle, stating that they were more of liabilities to the APC than being assets because the people of the state know their antecedents and would never be taken seriously now or in the future.

The acting chairman said that as a party, the PDP was worried that the actions of the defectors, if not well managed, could truncate the prevailing peaceful and secure atmosphere which Governor Seriake Dickson has helped to put in place in the state.

He insisted that in no distant time, Bayelsans would see the real reason behind “this hoax of a defection” which he said would become truly manifest.
The statement however called on the national leadership of the APC to take urgent steps to manage the crowd of defectors who are scampering to be governorship candidates of the party in the state.

“We urged the APC to ensure they manage this motley crowd of defectors and the violence that is bound to erupt at the fall out of their party primaries because the prevailing peace in the state cannot be sacrificed on the alter of politics.

“On our part as the ruling party in the state, we await the outcome of their primaries so that we can engage them in issue-based campaign that is hinged on the strength of performance and track record of service to our people,” it added.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/08/16/bayelsa-2015-pdp-laments-defection-of-members-to-apc/

hassan85:
shey u think if there was no card reader pdp wont have used security and dia usual mechanism to rig the election as usual? Commön, we've all bn in nigeria since 1999.

oh oh oh... LOL.. You are correct oh moi brother

You will rant.
You will wail.
You will scream.
But none will dwell on your rant or wail.

You will be hurt.
You will feel like pulling a hair outta ya head.
You will feel like kicking yourself.
But why the stress now for you still have a journey of 4years.

It came crashing down on you on march 28.
You never expect it had turn that way.
You felt a big hammer crushing yah bones.
Sorry you will have to live with the reality.
The bridges were burned
Now it's your turn to cry

Cry me a river
Cry me a river
Cry me a river
Cry me a river

hassan85:
Same Bamanga Tukur was d chairman dt destroyed the party b4 been forced to handover to "Mr Backing dog" plus let dem stop all this why why why.... summary failure, corruption and JEGAs card reader and PVC. that's the reason de lost. ontop all CLulessNeSs

JeGa card reader...?? How??

funlord:


Wetin this old expired mad politician dey talk? My friend get out of the public space with your inconsequential analysis! Rubbish!

Choi bros una dey vex oh

ibe9ja:
And for the mumu wey una be una come decide to reveal such sensitive information to the public so dat the terrorist group will be aware and take precautions.

LOL

Mynd44:
Lets be honest, the President Jonathan would have won any primary done by the PDP. You really believe Sule Lamido would have won? Be truthful.

Top members of the PDP are still not being honest with themselves about the last elections and without being honest, they will keep going in circles. They lost because people were tired of their BS.

You are spot on sir