₦airaland Forum

davillian:
If this is the kind of love you have for Nigerians please take it back and let us buy fake electrical appliances,fake drugs and substandard food stuff.
Like all those items doesn't end up in custom officers kitchen.
If the country was good we won't be buying tokunbo cars, shoes,bags,clothes,shoes etc.
In Nigeria if you are not born with a silver spoon then you most have used a tokumbo item.

What of second hand bra, pants, socks and boxers? Is it because the country was not good that we import these items thrown away inside dustbins in foreign countries, instead of our people producing them?

livebyday:
If you cannot comment like an adult or an educated person please do not quote me again.

You assume gej is someone I respect and that shows a very weak ability in critical thinking and a serious weakness in emotional intelligence.

I don't engage in thuggish banter

Cheers

You are the person displaying traces of an uneducated lazy youth. If you take time and actually read and comprehend the Nigerian constitution, you will actually know that a vice president is actually powerless (when the president is on sit), he takes directions and orders from the president. He cannot do anything without the authorization of the president.
Ditto for deputy Governors. Most people have no idea of the names of their deputy governor, because they are virtually powerless.

Obasanjo rendered Atiku useless in his second term, so much so his salaries, security and privileges were withdrawn. He even purported to remove him vice president, until the courts told him that a President cannot sack the vice.
Jonathan's case was similar, he was not given any role by Yar'adua except to negotiate with the Militants. He was not even allowed to act for the president anytime the president was away.

Sambo had a slightly better relationship with president jonathan, he was given minor roles here and there.

Osinbanjo also had have a relatively good relationship with his principal (according to Nigerian standards ), he also had been given some roles here and there by the president, and had been actually allowed to act a couple of times when the president was away (all be it after some noise from Nigerians), so I am yet to understand all the hullabaloo from PDP, IPOB and Co on how Osinbanjo in particular and Yorubas in general are being sidelined and insulted by Buhari the Fulanis. It's just ridiculous.
What are they trying to achieve? Provoke Osinbanjo to resign or provoke Yorubas in general to hate the Fulanis?
Osinbanjo is not complaining, Yoruba politicians and masses are not complaining (except FFK), but people from the other parts of nigeria wail everyday on social media on how it pains them the way Osinbanjo is being treated.

DexterousOne:
Buhari Is handling this p&id thing WRONGLY

Thats a fact

Nothing stops him from luring the hedge fund boys behind p&id to a secret location (probably in the embassy ) and negotiate to pay a pittance

No amount is too much to save your reputation.

Negotiate secretly and handle this thing

That is how sensible leaders do....


But your dullard want to drag our name in the mud

Negotiate gini? What did we buy? The day Buhari pays the 419 company $1, the day i will join the wailers club.
We are not paying anything. If UK wants a conflict, a conflict we will give. Afterall, as someone said, shell's assets in Nigeria are worth more that $9 billion.

seanjy4konji:
A guy upstair there made some sense...


You can never see such road in the north...

If you have a sound car...you can go 300 KMS.hr straight on some road for an hour...no shaking.

The geography, climate and traffic in the north is different from the south. Practically all goods and persons destined for the north, East, and South pass through these roads.

franchasng:
Why are you blaming trailers and heavy duty vehicles instead of blaming the failed government and leaders

So in order not to spoil the roads, trailers should stop plying Nigerian roads How then will people move their goods and materials since the same failed government cannot fix Nigeria's railways without being tribalistic with which routes to construct rails and which not to


Nigeria will remain a mess it is until the citizens are tired and demand good governance from the stupid failed leaders!!

Trailers and heavy duty vehicles are the main culprit of short lifespan of our expressways apart from poor design and substandard materials. In other climes containers, heavy duty goods, fuel and mass movement of people are transported using rail.

JubrinElSudan:
Na so....Thats for people that don't know about the road, maybe people coming from the Bayelsa, Rivers state axis of the East West road to the Southwest or North or vice versa. Areas like us wey dey ply the route almost everyday., we dey use keke reach the bad spot, use leg cross, enter motor wey dey drop passengers from Benin/Oghara/Sapele. Before, drivers go through Eku to come out at Amukpe roundabout but that route has been destroyed by the trailers too. The truth is that trailers and trucks are the number one road spoilers in Nigeria before you consider effect of bad construction or rain. They destroyed that route, they destroyed the Adeje route, they destroyed Eku route. It's terrible

That's the consequences of not having railway to transport heavy duty goods. Even ordinary fuel instead of being transported by pipelines is being trucked by road. No road in the world can withstand such load for long. The same phenomenon us affecting apapa oshodi expressway, Lagos Ibadan expressway and Lagos - sagamu road.

livebyday:
This is very sad indeed

You kicked his aides off the aso rock premises , you dissolved the committee he set up

You further went to tell the VP to seek approval from the presidency before awarding any project ?! Who does that?!!

What more do they want to tell us?

But under Yar'adua, your hero did not even have the powers to set up committees, not to talk of dissolving them. The only other responsibility he was giving apart from reading newspaper was to negotiate with his brothers - ijaw militants.
He was kicked around by Turai, Ibori and the cabals. Kingibe was using him to play soccer, it was so embarrassing that Yar’adua had to kick Kingibe out.
I wonder why we did not hear pim from the usual suspects then. It was after Yar'aduas death and subsequent installation as acting President that they began to come out of the woodwork

lionshare:
Seems you want to drink your oil?

That's the problem. As long as we are a source of primary materials for other countries, we will always be at their mercy. As long as we export raw materials which price is determined by them, and then import finished products which price is still determined by them, we will never truly be independent.

livebyday:
No!!!

Nigeria should not go this route !!

This will only.lend more international support to PId and make Nigerian government look like bullies

Bad move in my opinion

You hate your country so much that you don't mind being destroyed along with it.

Bleep international support. Where has international suppler gotten us. It is with international support that thieving politicians steal our money and stash in foreign banks. P&ID want to use international support to scam Nigeria of $9billion.
Libya under Gaddafi thrived despite international sanctions. China shut itself from the outside world to reposition it's economy. We should learn to stop putting all our hopes on international support. It has not help us.

gazilion:
Aaarrgghhh...Nigeria has started their own politics with this. I believe, the P&ID Representatives Pleading guilty must be in cahoots with the FGN to prove a point why the money will not be paid! However, we didn't need all this fire brigade law suits if our justice ministry did their jobs on time. P&ID may be a fraudulent company that connived with corrupt insiders to want to rip us of our common wealth, however, our government took things for granted for too long. Someone should have been sacked for this poor job!!

You that is the lawyer of P&ID ( just like justice Belgore), provide the tax receipt of P&ID in Nigeria for the past 20 years. I hope you know that all companies registered under CAC are required by law to file tax returns yearly. All that the staff of P&ID has to do is plead not guilty and then provide the tax receipts.

If Nigeria can as a sovereign nation can MTN $5.2billion, what stops us from fining P&ID $10 billion.

izombie:
why do you people always try to shift blame? Buhari is dealing with your VP but alas, igbos are your problem. What concerns awolowo with what is happening now? Igbos and nigerians in general are discussing the latest news in nigeria concerning how your messiah bubu stripped your angel osinbajo of every atom of authority and you are hear shouting igbos up and down. Fulani man will slap you and you will turn around to blame the igbo man who is just watching. Oya Continue.

How come igbos are taking chlorinoquine for Yoruba malaria? Why is igbos more pained by Buhari dealing with a Yoruba man than the Yorubas themselves? It does not make sense.
Day and night you guys will not let us hear word on social media and even print media. Osinbanjo this, Osinbanjo that. If it's paining you guys so much, why not start a protest to Aso Rock.

ebullient1986:
That can't happen in Igboland my dear

Then Akwa must be in afonjaland and the Ojukwu family is not from Igboland my dear.

Ojukwu’s family in court over property sharing
AWKA—CHILDREN of Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, the millionaire father of the late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and Ikemba Nnewi’s children were in an Awka High Court, yesterday, over the controversy surrounding the sharing of their late father’s property.

Mr. Ikemefuna Ojukwu and his brother, Mr. Chukwuma Ojukwu, two children of the late Ikemba Nnewi, had instituted the suit in 2014, against their uncles, Dr Joseph Ojukwu, Dr Ike Ojukwu and Mr. Lotanna Ojukwu and their mother, Ambassador. Bianca Ojukwu

The plaintiffs, among other reliefs, were asking the court to declare that they be entitled to 25 per cent of the property in the compound of their father at No. 73, Owerri road, Nnewi and a declaration that they were entitled to 25 per cent shares of their father’s company, Ojukwu Transport Company.

They also sought an order of the court compelling the defendants to account to them the management of late Sir Louis Ojukwu’s property over the years and further asked the court to grant an order that the will of Sir Louis Ojukwu to be resealed.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/03/ojukwus-family-court-property-sharing/amp/

ebullient1986:
Have you seen why I called you a fool? Father can never will his kingdom in Igboland.

I wonder the kinds of schools you guys went to. Where have you ever heard of a king willing his kingdom anywhere the world before you talk of Igboland. Even in England, Queen Elizabeth II cannot will the throne of England to Charles. You guys that never had a monarchy seem not to understand at all how monarchy works. It would have been better the colonialists left you guys with council of elders.

Is legitimate right of the first son to inherit it and a father can never will his ancestry home because is as well belong to the first son. Please go

That's only under customary law, whereby the father died interstate and no will was written. If a deceased father writes a will, then the Commonlaw takes precedence over customary law.

Even at that the Supreme Court has invalidated the discriminatory igbo customary law that gives a father's inheritance to only his sons (especially the first son) to the detriment of all other children.

Nigeria: Supreme Court Invalidates Igbo Customary Law Denying Female Descendants the Right to Inherit
(May 6, 2014) On April 14, 2014,
The Nigerian Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, confirmed decisions of two lower courts, which had found unconstitutional an Igbo customary law of succession excluding female offspring from eligibility to inherit the property of their fathers.
https://www.loc.gov/law/foreign-news/article/nigeria-supreme-court-invalidates-igbo-customary-law-denying-female-descendants-the-right-to-inherit/

So in effect, if any of kanu's siblings including his sisters challenge his claim to all their fathers inheritance in court, he might not get sole ownership of his father's house he is claiming.

ebullient1986:
Then you are telling me that your first son shouldn't call ancestry home is house? Don't let envy hurt your son because of your utterances. My house is a house to my child wether death or alive. Mind you Nnamdi kanu is the first son and a prince for that matter, his father is the king Afara ukwu ibeku kingdom

You people are something else, illiteracy mixed with ignorance, spiced with pride.

Your father's house is not your house, it can only be your house after you inherit it either by tradition or civil law. According to the law, your father can will his house to the last born or even non of his children. It's his property. Quit waiting for your father to die to inherit his properties, work hard to build your own. I now see why there is a war anytime a rich man dies in Igboland. The children and brothers fight to the finish to inherit a deceased relative's properties.

Kanu is no crown prince. Succession in Afara Ukwu Ibeku autonomous community is not hereditary. Kanu's father did not inherit the throne from his father. Check up the meaning of crown prince in the dictionary.

Staro:
I know your type.
You should have told us your father is the MD of Setraco. Nonsense!

You BMC crew are just as dishonest as your master in Aso Rock.

Who told you Setraco ever abandoned that road during GEJ?
Oga, it was Julius Berger that abandoned it in 2010 due to lack of funding but GEJ re-awarded it to Setraco and RCC and mobilised them heavily.

Setraco and RCC were working on that road everyday during GEJ tenure. All the completed portions from Warri - PH - Eket including the various bridges you see there today were done during GEJ tenure.

I know your type, arguing about something you have no idea about from your village in Umuahia or Aba. I informed you I was in warri when Setraco mobilised to site. I even tried to get contract to supply sand on that project. But you in IPOB capital are able to tell me what went on in my own backyard.

Even a simple Google search would have cured your ignorance.
This is from Setraco site itself;

CLIENT
MINISTRY OF NIGER DELTA AFFAIRS
NAME OF THE CONSULTANT
AIM CONSULTANTS LIMITED
MONTH AWARDED
MAY-2009
MONTH OF COMPLETION
ON GOING
SPECIAL FEATURES
http://www.setraco.net/project_det.php?id=61

While this is a report the day after the contract was awarded;

Nigeria: East-West Road Dualisation - Setraco Takes Over From Berger
12 JUNE 2009 By Sunday Williams

The Federal Government yesterday signed a N74 billion contractual agreement with Messrs Setraco Nig. Ltd for the dualisation of the East-West road which was abandoned by Julius Berger in 2006 due to the activities of Niger Delta militants.

The signing of the agreement brought to an end various attempts by the Federal government to re-award the project since it was abandoned.
https://allafrica.com/stories/200906120044.html

ebullient1986:
Are you saying that your first son can never inherent you house?

The father has to die first before your first son (or even your first daughter) can inherit your house. It is highly inappropriate to inherit your father's house while he is still alive.

Staro:
This your post is laughable!

You mean GEJ abandoned East-West road?
Do you even know this road? Have you ever driven on it? Who else did those good long stretches of the road and various bridges if not GEJ?

Oga, it's not by force to comment on a topic.
If you're ignorant of a particular story, simply ignore and move on to the next thread.


I

Ignorant people forming wise.

I am from warri. I was in warri when Setraco started work on the east west road in 2010. Setraco yard in Ubeji, warri is opposite where I was staying. I had a very close friend who was the personal assistant of a Setraco director in Abuja. So you cannot tell me anything about that road.

Setraco abandoned the road because of lack of funding.

Him get house for Nigeria? I thought he squatted in his father's house when he visited Nigeria, or is his father dead and he has inherited his father's house?

So, who are are the Fulani assassins out to assassinate? I thought jack your beloved dog is already dead, or they want to use Edo airlines to assassinate you in UK from Umuahia.

nairaland0753:
My dear, God over everything. If u involve God, ur character will be good

And thats why Nigeria with the highest number of churches and mosques in the world have been showing our good character at home and all over the world.

ornicus:
What does anyone want with a 50kg bag of rice? Is that not to resell in containers?

A 50kg bag of rice in my house last between 3 - 4 months.

Buying small quantities of rice and other food items is a waste of money.

Fvckmoderators:
I can swear an affidavit to that. Atiku v PMB 2019

Are you a bot? Atiku vs PMB is only about qualification for president and not for medical doctors.
The qualifications for medical doctor (or even journalist) is much more stringent that for president.

Fvckmoderators:
As long as I can read and write I am qualified to perform surgery on any patient.

If you perform surgery without the requisite professional qualifications, you will be arrested for impersonation.

MylezKayn:
A tribunal ruling that will go down in history as the worst perversion and miscarriage of Justice


Modified: Y'all should call me Dr. MylezKayn. I have a Ph.D from U.N.N in Anatomy based on my affidavit. Anybody who disagrees with me would be referred to Atiku vs Buhari case

Atiku vs Buhari case has nothing to do with titles or professional qualifications. It only deals with educational qualifications to contest for the office of President as spelt out in the constitution, does not deal with qualifications of a doctor of anatomy.

ornicus:
Shoprite this evening

The label says 25kg. That's half bag.

xpool:
All the sharp cars that state governments and corporate organizations bought for police what are they doing with them?
Except using them to chase and track yahoo boys.

Are we not the ones clapping hands for the law makers?

Why should corporate organisations buy cars for the police? Is police a charity organisation? If an organisation buys car for a corporate body, how do you expect the same police to arrest, investigate and prosecute that same organisation when it is involved with a crime?
If corporate organisations buy the cars, then who maintains and fuel the cars? Are police equipments not in the budget?

Same goes for states, if states are allowed to have their own police, then whatever they decide to buy for their police is their business, but it is unethical for state governments to equip federal police they have no control over.

This is jo johnson, prime minister Boris Johnson's brother, who just resigned last week as minster from the government. He rides to office with his bicycle. He is also a member of parliament.

RZArecta:
i really can’t bother myself with the opinions of rètards but let me humor you. Why wasn’t the Lagos - Ibadan expressway ignored same way East - West road is now ? I don’t expect a tribal bigot like you to give any tangible answer so don’t bother me with your stûpidity again because I’ll ignore you

Typical Nigerian answering a question with question to deflect from answering the question.

Let me answer your question;
The reason the Lagos - Ibadan expressway is now not being ignored by the Buhari administration is because the road is not being ignored by south west politicians and electorates. South west politicians and electorates have been putting pressure on Buhari to fix the road. As the politicians and electorates supported Buhari in the last elections, he feels the need to listen to their demands.

Now answer the question;
Why didn't PDP government (including the Jonathan administration filled with Niger deltans) ignore the east west road for 16 years despite rabid support from politicians and electorate?

RichDad1:
Are there no ministers from that region to fight this cause at the FEC meetings ?
What of Senators and Representatives from the region to mount pressures on the MDAs ?
What are your Governors doing anytime they Visit Abuja? Share money, Bleep Olosho and come back to feed people like you fables and bitterness of how the FG neglects your region.

How long has that road been bad ? I’m sure it predates this administration. Why can’t southern Governments give attention to things that concerns their people ?
They will rather stash dollars in Dubai, UK and Panama.

The President, Minister for Petroleum, Minister for Finance , Minister for Niger Delta were all from this region at one time.
What about NDDC? What difference did they make ?

Throughout the agitation of the Militants , have you ever heard them demanding the Government should fix that road to world standard? It’s all about personal wealth acquisitions.

The money/Jewelries that EFCC recently forfeited from Deziani can fix that road.

What about the luxury Yatch owned by Kola Aluko?
Or the Millions of Dollars seized from PEJ?

Forget all these stories, the politicians know what to do to get that road fixed but they won’t because it will affect their embezzlement duties.

Even if private companies wants to fix the road , the Locals, Especially the youths will be all arms to demand settlements.

We’re our own problems in the South. Leave the northerners out of it.

Don't mind PDP and it's allies. PDP ruled Nigeria for 16 years, they did not remember east west road. All the Governors of the last 16 years had been PDP, they were oblivious to the east west road. Over 95% of senators, house of reps members, state legislators for the last 20 years had been PDP, they were blind to the east west road. At a time the Nigerdelta had in office, the president, finance minister, petroleum minister, Niger delta minister, as you said It is now that they suddenly remember that an East west road exist.

I am not exonerating Buhari from gross incompetence, what I am saying is that why crucify Buhari while neglecting your own brothers who are more complicit.

This is a 2014 report on the state of the east west road.

Nigeria: Long Journey to East West Road Completion

One project that has turned a sour point and an albatross to the ministry is the East-West Road which has remained under construction since 2006. It was first handled by the Ministry of Works, until 2009, when it was handed over to the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs.
https://allafrica.com/stories/201411120709.html

ChristianEast:
I subscribe to classic economics (Adam smith's school of thought). They believe in pure liberalism, zero government intervention and specialisation.

It's called classical economics and not classic economics. It only works in the text books, it does not work in the real world. Even in the US government intervenes in business to help them survive and to reduce unfair monopolistic practices by the big companies.

I subscribe to Kynesian thought that interaction between aggregrate demand and aggregate supply is what influences the economy and his thought that demand creates supply.

Also only works in the text books. In the real world lots of other extraneous factors affect prices. If economics is such a perfect science, the markets would not be so difficult to predict.

I subscribe to Monetarist school that all economic problem is a monetary phenomeon.

Also false. Economic problems can be as a result of social, political or even religious conflicts.

I subscribe to mercantilist school that advocates for strong institution.

True, but strong persons build strong institutions. That's why sometimes the strength of the character of the head of an institution sometimes determines the success or failure of that institution. A good example EFCC under Dora Akinyuli

So what you proposed is neither classical, Kynesian, monetarist nor Mercantilist but it summarized to an extent my economic belief and I love calling it Conservative Capitalism.

You are WISE!

Economics is a social science dealing with human behaviour and human behaviour is anything but predictable.

JasonScoolari:
Are you scared to say it Onnè?

Simply put; "The hypocrisy of General Buhari"

Always shielding in-house criminals.

Which criminals and for what crime.
Buhari had a meeting with some cabinet members to resolve the P&ID issue, two members of the cabinet out of others suggested negotiatiing with them, Buhari rejected their advice and vowed to fight it. Someone is wailing "Always shielding in-house criminals". I have never heard anywhere in the world where giving an advice is a crime. In that case John Bolton that had major disagreements with trump on foreign policy issues must the the biggest criminal.

Some of the blame should be directed at the reporters, who turns and twist stories to fit the narratives they are trying to sell.

AAEEI:
So why was God angry with Adam and Eve if sex was just an instinct put in humans by God?

Get your nose away from the bible for a second and read actual scientific and knowledge based books.
Sex is one of the essential instincts hard wired into the DNA of every animal, others are eating, drinking, fear and others. These things are not taught but inborn.

igbobuigbo:
It's been progressively worse since 1984. That includes GE's govt. Or are you suffering from language deficiency syndrome that you don't understand what ''progressively'' means?

Since 1984? you must have been born post 1984 not to have an idea of Nigeria's dire economic and social situation as at 1984.

Here was the coup speech read by Brigadier Sani Abacha in December 1984;

Fellow countrymen and women,

I, Brigadier Sani Abacha, of the Nigerian Army address you this morning on behalf of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

You are all living witnesses to the great economic predicament and uncertainty, which an inept and corrupt leadership has imposed on our beloved nation for the past four years. I am referring to the harsh, intolerable conditions under which we are now living. Our economy has been hopelessly mismanaged; we have become a debtor and beggar nation. There is inadequacy of food at reasonable prices for our people who are now fed up with endless announcements of importation of foodstuff; health services are in shambles as our hospitals are reduced to mere consulting clinics without drugs, water and equipment.

Our educational system is deteriorating at alarming rate. Unemployment figures including the undergraduates have reached embarrassing and unacceptable proportions.

In some states, workers are being owed salary arrears of eight to twelve months and in others there are threats of salary cuts. Yet our leaders revel in squandermania, corruption and indiscipline, and continue to proliferate public appointments in complete disregard of our stark economic realities.

After due consultations over these deplorable conditions, I and my colleagues in the armed forces have in the discharge of our national role as promoters and protectors of our national interest decided to effect a change in the leadership of the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and form a Federal Military Government. This task has just been completed.

The bolded quote could be written today, and it will be accurate.