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Nigerians are paying part of the sins of the 16-year rule of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, through the lingering fuel crisis in the country, All Progressives Congress, APC, national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, said yesterday.

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Tinubu’s assertion on the fringes of a reconciliation meeting of APC South-West leaders at the residence of Aremo Segun Osoba, was also echoed by the APC South-East caucus at an interactive meeting at Egede, Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State.

Tinubu said: “For 16 good years, PDP destroyed the country. We should not be lamenting about petroleum queues today if they had seen what is necessary and done what is necessary for this country.

“We can’t be emotional and in self denial. If they had done Awolowo Road, if they had done Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, if they put priority on our rails, if they put priority on electricity generation and distribution, we will not be in this mess that we are today.

“Nigerians are impatient for what? I research Nigeria,they just want to see the direction of the economic policy and want to be certain of the future that we will not continue in the direction of leaderless, directionless and hopelessness of the past 16 years.”

One year not enough to rectify the rot

Spokesman of the South-East caucus, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, who echoed the point also at an interactive meeting said: “We are paying, unfortunately, for the sins of PDP. I remember vividly in 2010, when Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, then Finance Minister and Coordinator of the Economy, announced to the whole world the award of $23 billion Greenfield Refineries, to a Chinese company.

“The refineries were to be located at Bayelsa, Lagos and Kogi states. There was jubilation nationwide. If they had completed the refineries, today we won’t be talking of scarcity or astronomical increase in fuel pump price. They squandered the money and put Nigerians in harm’s way.”

While assuring that the problems were being fixed Okechukwu, however, said one year was not enough for the administration to rectify the rot.

Among those present at the interactive session were Mrs. Juliet Ibekaku, Deputy Governorship candidate of APC, Philip Eze, senatorial candidate of the party, local government and Ward chairmen.

Challenged that Nigerians were running out of patience with the new administration, Okechukwu said: “We can’t stop pointing out the unconscionable wreckage the PDP unleashed on our economy in the last 16 years. The wreckage keeps popping up at each junction, despite the efforts being made to suppress it.”

bigsmoke2:
Dr. Nkemehule Karl Omebere-Iyari, 22 how is this possible if he did waec at 16 yrs
shey na 1 year him use do phd

Some brilliant students are sometimes given that opportunity to proceed to phd without masters. Ask Wole Soyinka, he was also a beneficiary!

Funmiladey:
I stopped reading the article when I realised that a state of emergency wa in place when the incident happened, how on earth will a governor still be governing with a state of emergency in place, I think uncle JO got it wrong there too. No justification for the Gov. For nt callin as well

My dear, do you know that a place where there is a state-of-emergency, there is always an administrator as the governor is removed, but in this case the governor was allowed to be the administrator and the eye of the president in that state. If he failed to inform the president of an abduction, whose fault is it? Judge this matter correctly!

rexel99:
Crap, can't imagine an adult would take his time to type this.

Hmmmm!

oglalasioux:
I believe you are using good and substandard products to depict my argument for religion.

Please fix as appropriate;

Catholic
Methodist
Anglican
Church of Christ
Seventh Day Adventist
Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints
Olumba Olumba
Celestial Church of Christ
Redeemed Christian Mission
Believers Love World
Jehovah's Witnesses
The Lord's Chosen


Help me categorize the above according to good and substandard (I'll come up with more).

Then you check bible translations;

Good News Version
King James Version
New world Translation
Revised Standard Version
New Jerusalem Bible
The Living Bible etc

Please explain why they should be different versions of a holy book. The only obvious answer is that it's a forgery. But let me wait for your answers.

A muslim will always be muslim. Both in and out, he is identified with something obnoxious.... terrorism!

I will not believe this story until she is able to go to chibok, show us her parents and their family house, else it will be a drama set up to divert attention and deceive gullible Nigerians.
The actors, this time, have gotten it wrong. They did not use a good script!

sukkot:
look at it this way ? if he didnt do what he did, we would have not received close to a billion dollars in 10 years. the money would be in someones pocket now. and what do you know ? as soon as the money was returned to nigeria goodluck ebele pocketed it. and the fact that the money is returned in installments lets me know he did this on purpose to protect the money from thieves. listen, the man knew the caliber of people around him so he made his move.

Same thing with this govt. They want to cover up the ones they pocket by given you this report. By the way, who wants to know, who asked them?

So how much remain for Buhari to collect?

The story is somehow. How did they know she wanted to kidnap the child? The story did not tell us. Innocent people often suffer like this. God please, keep protecting us.

jmichlins:
And father Tansi is yet to be made saint. Ok now continue whites

For real?

Great!

Pope Francis has announced that Mother Teresa, a nun who dedicated her life to helping the poor in India, will become a saint on September 4.

The date on which she will be proclaimed a saint falls on the eve of the anniversary of her death, which occurred on September 5, 1997.

In December, Francis announced that Mother Teresa would become a saint after recognizing a second miracle attributed to her: the healing of a Brazilian man with multiple brain tumors after loved ones prayed to her to heal him, the Italian Catholic bishops' association's official newspaper Avvenire reported. That miracle occurred after her death.

The nun was beatified in October 2003 by now deceased Pope John Paul II. He approved a first posthumous miracle.

A 30-year-old woman in Kolkata said she was cured of a stomach tumor after praying to Mother Teresa. A Vatican committee said it could find no scientific explanation for her healing and declared it a miracle.

Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in Albania and baptized Gonxha Agnes.

At age 18, she joined an Irish convent, where she received the name Sister Mary Teresa. Months later, she left for India, landing in Kolkata, the city then known as Calcutta, in January 1929. She taught at St. Mary's School for girls.

There, she took her Final Profession of Vows and became Mother Teresa. Nearly 20 years later, during a train ride in India, she felt a calling from Jesus to care for the poor, her Vatican biography said. She established Missionaries of Charity to serve the poorest of all.

In 1948, she donned her iconic white sari with blue trim for the first time and walked out of her convent to start her life caring for the poor. She washed the wounded, cared for the sick and dying, and some of her former students joined her over time. She spread her work throughout India.

Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

Pope John Paul II waived the requirement of waiting five years after a person's death to pursue the path to sainthood and opened Mother Teresa's Cause of Canonization less than two years after her death.

isbish:
It beats my imagination how some people reason. How on earth can people think with such a shallow mind? So Buhari will turn all Christians to Muslim because he is a President. These guys na wawo.

No! When he bundles Nigeria as a country to become an Islamic nation, that's Islamisation. He doesnt need to turn Christians to muslims, but the nation. The conversion goes on gradually.

Aufbauh:
An empty vessel make the loudest noise. Thank God for anonymous forum like nairaland that you at least have a comment to make.

Auwal Bauchi, na you dey talk? I dey laffff oooh!

antispexish:
how?, because they are revealing those who ate our yams?


at least if you can't give details, ask the pdp to give the public details of yams stolen by apc members during pdp reign. EFCC just gave you names, account numbers, amount and dates. just shouting that some people looted is not good enough!


it's still a very big issue!
you and other wailers have the responsibility of not allowing the matter die. keep on shouting it so that those who diverted the Imo money will not go free. that's the job of the opposition!

and if you have details about APC members, pls reveal it and dnt keep Kwayet like the clueless one while apc is busy revealing yours!

Amaechi, Tinubu, Fayemi, Fashola, and co including Obasanjo and Atiku's cases are before your very eyes. Who talks about them? There are evidences but here efcc just gave a jab not backing it up with proof. So keep calm and let's do the needful.

Progressive01:
iPork Miscreants defending criminality as usual.

The question any one with as much intelligence as a dead mouse should ask is- when did the Central Bank of Nigeria become Goodluck Jonathan's Bank or Bank of People's "Democracy" Party?? Or did the said companies and individuals carry out any jobs for the CBN??

Arise o' compatriots, arise!!!

So CBN told you their money was missing? Do proper investigation first and discover how the money was lodged in the CBN in the first place. I too am involved in that matter and I can tell you what transpired. But I see that FFK's explanation did nothing to you.
Anyway, efcc knows what they are aiming at.

otokx:
Association of Yam Eaters; they should be charged to court immediately.

Nawaoooh! Even without proper investigation?
The report did not give clue to the source of the money, only FFK did.
Money must surely move into people's hand for different purposes. Even in this government, same thing is applicable. The point now is being able to ascertain that the source is truly genuine.
But mind you, GEJ administration was actually transparent. They did clean businesses using banks to tell the world they are clean. Dubiuos politicians go with cash using bullion vans and heavy escort.
This is why Jonathan must live long!
But why is it that this govt is only investigating pdp campain funds? How did apc get to power? See Amaechi indicted in CNN report of millions of dollars in his private account, yet efcc has done nothing about it.
Sorry for Buhari and his efcc. We are tired of this rubbish! This cant be anticorruption war!!!!

psucc:
I have a thought.

How comes that all the investigations carried out only carry the names of those left in PDP even when it is obvious that most of the 'saints' in APC made a last minute crossover.

We are still watching the drama.

Wild goose chase!

The man may be right. Overseas buying a shoe for $800 looks so cheap because they are not compararing the cost with naira equivalent. Just like buying something for N20,000 here. You see the price so big because you are comparing it with Naira!

Donald Trump is a front-line US presidential contender. He equally sees Nigeria as a country claiming to be the giant of Africa as well as one of the highest producers of crude oil in Africa, but regrettably has nothing tangible to show for it.

After 56 years of independence, Nigerian leaders have been battling on how best to deliver the dividend of democracy to the people. This battle goes on until each government’s tenure elapses.

Quite disappointed about the attitudes of some African leaders, especially Nigeria, Donald Trump says: “Look at African countries like Nigeria or Kenya, for instance, those people are stealing from their own government and go to invest the money in foreign countries. From the government to the opposition, they only qualify to be used as a case study whenever bad examples are required. How do you trust even those who have run away to hide here in the United States, hiding behind education? I hear they abuse me in their blogs but I don’t care because even the internet they are using is ours and we can decide to switch it off from this side. These are people who import everything including matchsticks. In my opinion, most of these African countries [like Nigeria] ought to be recolonized again for another 100 years because they know nothing about leadership”.

When the Federal Government’s N3.1 trillion revenue loss was traced to an individual account, a confused and embarrassed Buhari who before now apparently had believed that he had heard and seen the worst of how corrupt practices have brought Nigeria to her knees, almost lost his cool. The hard fact was brought to Buhari’s attention that a whopping $16 billion – at the official exchange rate of N196, this comes to N3.136 trillion; while, with the parallel market rate of N315, it comes to a whopping N5.04trillion) of the nation’s crude oil revenue loss could be traced to some sharp practices by some individuals in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector under his watch.

The quanta of funds in question are revenue that ought to have accrued to the Federal Government of Nigeria through oil-lifting deals which are now subject of intensive investigations. Trump is privileged to make such remark because the government of the United States of America is helping in the provision of intelligence on how to trace some of the stolen funds from Nigeria. Worse still, Benin Republic and South Africa have both become safe havens for Nigeria’s stolen funds.

Records of the oil-lifting schedules, timelines of transactions as well as proceeds that were meant to have accrued to government has shown that some people just constituted themselves into a parallel government and were just making away with the nation’s resources. The point here is that no matter who is in charge, high technical stealing kept going on in almost every facet of the country's economy.

Donald Trump has seen how Nigeria runs to his country on the premise of its bilateral agreement on intelligence sharing and anti-money laundering surveillance to trace some of the stolen funds domiciled in other countries as well as Benin Republic and South Africa, which of recent have been identified as safe havens for Nigerian stolen funds.

South African government is however said to be on the apparent reluctance to repatriate some funds stashed in the country. It is also discovered that whereas the Federal Government has relaxed its forex policy, there has been a heavy movement of cash (in dollars) from Benin Republic back into the system in Nigeria.

It is suspected that the simmering diplomatic row between Nigeria and South Africa has more to do with the seeming unwillingness of the South African government to repatriate alleged stolen funds that have been traced to that country. Could this be the reason for Zuma’s visit recently?

Trump was right. Stealing in government is like a tradition in Nigeria, no matter the government in power!

According to a recent poll monitored from both USA and UK, there will be more dead Facebook users than living ones in a very short while. It is discovered that the numbers of the dead on Facebook are rising fast hitting an all time 30 million mark high and growing.
While it’s obvious that people don’t outlive their bodies on digital technology, they do endure in one sense. People’s experience of you as a seemingly living person can and does continue online. Some questions here are: How is our continuing presence in digital space changing the way we die? And what does it mean for those who would mourn us after we are gone?
The truth of the matter is that as the numbers of the dead on Facebook are growing fast, the few living keep "liking" and "friending" the dead ones as they open their facebook pages on daily bases.
By 2012, just eight years after the facebook platform was launched, 30 million users with Facebook accounts had died. That number has only gone up since. Some estimates claim more than 8,000 users die each day.
At some point in time, there will be more dead Facebook users than living ones. Facebook is a growing and unstoppable digital graveyard.
Friend, do you know how many dead friends you have on your facebook account? Though many Facebook profiles which announce that their owners have passed are “memorialised”. The profile is emblazoned with the word “remembering”, and they stop appearing in public spaces, like People You May Know or birthday reminders.
But not all Facebook users who have passed away are memorialised. There those who died some few years ago, but their family members and friends regularly post updates on their pages, and when they do, the dead people’s profiles populate in their friends' Facebook feed. As a result, their digital identities continue to exist.
Apart from facebook, there are tons of social media platforms that will as well become graveyards very soon. In one social media chat room which I subscribe to, I had a wonderful experience. The moderators like taking sides. If you make a mistake of posting something they do not like, you just see one of them looking from one angle of the divide trying to develop an idea. The next thing you will see is that you are either blocked/banned from using the platform or that the thread is closed. They will manufacture excuses to justify this. Sometimes they direct or link you to certain non-existent pages just to remain in charge.
Anyway, these things happen everyday. You too may have had an experience. Truth of the matter is that when active people are blocked and taken out of the way, deadness takes over.
Share your own experience, if you have any.

This man even made a very bad case against Internet Warriors, telling them their root and threatening to end the almighty media if he is provoked. Given America Trump will pull surprises!

Donald Trump, a front-line US presidential contender blast Nigeria for claiming to be giant of Africa. One of The highest producer of crude oil in Africa without nothing tangible to show for it. 56 years after independence, Nigerian leaders still can’t deliver

“ordinary” electricity, water, home-refined petroleum products, transportation – road, rail, water and air – infrastructure.

Here’s a quote from Donald Trump, a front-line US presidential contender:

“Look at African countries like Nigeria or Kenya for instance, those people are stealing from their own government and go to invest the money in foreign countries.

From the government to the opposition, they only qualify to be used as a case study whenever bad examples are required.

How do you trust even those who have run away to hide here in the United States, hiding behind education? I hear they abuse me in their blogs but I don’t care because even the internet they are using is ours and we can decide to switch it off from this side.

These are people who import everything including matchsticks.

In my opinion, most of these African countries [like Nigeria] ought to be recolonized again for another 100 years because they know nothing about leadership and self-governance.”

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snailspeed:
Offerings and tithe are giving to take care of men, not God. The only kind of offering giving to God had to be burnt. God does not eat human food

Now I know who you are and where you belong. It will pay you not to delve into matters that are greater than you.

DaBullIT:
EFCC reveals findings as expected of every investigative organization

Some of you erdyots already calling EFCC names


Aren't you bothered by the fact that these sums in millions of $$ runs to billions and trillions


Shame on you , your family


Nigeria was bled dry , you are seeing evidence and you are not happy with the development


I don't even know what to type anymore

useless idiorts

The thing vex you tire because people are telling efcc their mistakes eeh? Anyway, cursing and abusing right thinking Nigerians will not solve our problems. It will do us a whole lots of good if efcc will concentrate on their job and do it properly. The information they keep giving out, what is the need? Have they properly investigated these allegatipns before going to the media?
Why do you have to attack people that are trying to correct a bad impression by the efcc? We are all suffering as a result of bad governance riddled with bad economic style and all we keep seeing on top of it is a government who cannot save or manage the little money it generates. The money president Buhari has so far spent on foreign trips sincr he took over is more than the arms deal money under investigation. When somebody speaks now, you will start cursing. Bear in mind, curse causeless has no effect!

These old men with their funny predictions! Allow us to rest naaaw, must you talk about evrrything? Let time tell.

Sanchez01:
True, and that is because a lot of people will not just change their minds on what they have been taught from childhood till date. Again to hammer on it, why didn't Christ demonstrate it when He was able to pay tax to Caesar's government? He taught us to pray, to forgive, to give, to intercede for others and even to give towards the work of God, but never made a single teaching on tithing? As big as the New Testament is, there is not a single teaching on tithing. What does this tell us? Unfortunately, some pastors realize this but they will never preach it because it;s like preaching their very own death.

Even the concept of paying tithe in the Old Testament made it known that the Levites, the tribe from Levi are to eat and feast from the people's tithes because God commanded them not to have a land like in the inheritance of Israel every other tribe had. They had no lands, they did not farm and they did not rear cattles. So if the Levites had access to the tithes based on God's instruction, why then did Christ not preach about it in the new phase? Simple, because there are no Levites in our midst again. The Pastor who has a full time job has turned himself to a Levite despite his many landed properties and cars. He cannot preach the truth in this regard because that is his primary source of income.

Kai this boy! I am a pastor, I don't EAT tithe, it belongs to God! Have you given me your tithe before? You wrote this because you are guilty of not paying tithe abi? Be careful, lest you be another bad christian!