₦airaland Forum

GalaticHorde:
seriously, is this a President or some clown? It is so surreal that i am prepared to believe any hoax that claims that trump has be hacked to embarrass america and Americans, a teenager who is just coming to terms with his/her maturity in his/her society can not display this kind of stupidity publicly and be excused for it, but trust ®etarded republicans to create an excuse and try to defend this stupidity

Republican supporters under trump are ®etarded, reprehensible, repulsive, revolting, ridiculous, recalcitrant ruskie wannabe rimjobs without a genuine ounce of decency, not the hypocritical decency, genuine decency

COMPAQ:
Does that include split unit AC's?

AK481:
In monopoly,u cannot increase price and quantity demand at the same time ,read ur market structure note in economics if u have one.

The increase will create

Reduction in consumption and hence reduction in their total revenue

Electricity theft will be on the rise.

This will further impoverished the disco.

Chicastle:
but does this solar really work well bro?

StrikeBack:
Give us steady uninterrupted electricity and see if people won't pay

Chizuru01:
I told my foolish nairaland friends that supports APC that this government does not care about the hardship of nigerians but his foolishness will never let him see it

Educonomist:
Imagine a country where SSCE certificate is among d least requirements to have for the office of a President...

Nigeria my country

MaNyEsq:
You're totally missing the point. The issue is not what suffices for a "school certificate" or its equivalent." The issue here and my article is about Buhari's refusal to produce the documentation that shows he satisfies that section of the "Constitutional Requirement." So, your reference to section 318(1) of the Constitution that states what can substitute for section131(d) is honestly a moot point. The reason being that substitutes for "school certificate" as you enumerated above are not in question or being debated.

MaNyEsq:
I am not sure if Buhari can read and understand the Constitution of the country that he professes to lead, but for him to say before the Tribunal that, "No law requires me to produce my certificate," is absurd to say the least. If he's smart and intelligent enough to read and comprehend, then he should read Chapter VI, Part 1, Section A-131(d) of the Nigerian Constitution, wherein it states that: A person shall be qualified for election to the office of the President if -(d) he has been educated up to at least School Certificate level or its equivalent. So, Mr. President, you're absolutely wrong to make such a preposterous statement. As long as your educational qualification is part of an issue before the Tribunal, the onus is on you to convince the body by production of documentation albeit Certificates to show that you met the section 131(d) requirement and was qualified as at the time you ran for the office. That is what the Judicial process is for...to adjudicate matters that arose and came before it. I am amazed at the thought process of these imbeciles that claim to be the leaders of this country. You need to learn to be judicious with your words and think before you speak.

DexterousOne:
It got much worse during the reign of the idiot economic terrorist we have as president

kutchs:
But just how does one prove that he's educated?
Possession of a certificate is the only way I know to produce that one has received education up to a certain level at least formally which is what's required here.

That you can speak and write good English, were seen in a school compound with uniform and mingling with other students/pupils aren't enough.

It's even shameful that a president of a 21st Century country doesn't and is proud to admit he doesn't have a certificate.

Even more shameful are the host of SANs defending him.

131. A person shall be qualified for election to the office of the President if -
(d) he has been educated up to at least School Certificate level or its equivalent.

madridsta007:
As you people miss Deziani's constant fuel, Kalu Aja says:
With the looting we have a
1. Repaired Lagos to Kano narrow guage railway
2. Brand new Abuja to Kaduna standard guage passenger rail line. ...the first in Sub-Saharan Africa
3. 4 new international airport terminals. ..the one in Abuja linked to a light rail
4. New power plants...gas pipes and transmission infrastructure
5. Eradication of Polio and Guinea Worm and Ebola (and we are still battling with Lassa fever without any national policy direction smh)
6. 11 new Universites...150 Almajiri schools
8...new trauma hospital in Abuja with air ambulance
9..lagos to Ibadan; abuja to Lokoja, east west road, benin to ore, Onitsha to Owerri etc
10. Reequiped military. ...new attack helicopters. ..T72 battle tanks....ships...unarmed drones.
11. Tetfund and maasive commitment to education funding
12. $1.5b in savings....the only time since 1960 Nigerian had saved a kobo
13. Longest period of low inflation in Nigeria
14. N18000 minimum wage
15...tax cuts by increased personal allowances....
Let no one LIE to you. ...the oil prices were well invested
Kalu Aja

madridsta007:
Yes, Canada is not just taking our young people, they are taking the fattest of our crops, the best, the brightest, and the brainiest!

Not just Canada, but the US, Germany, Ireland, the UK, Australia, etc.
The colonialists think ahead of the black man, their subjects. When Obama, Clinton and the UK were helping to topple GEJ in a bloodless regime change in the connivial of Nigerians from the North and South West, you think they hadn't seen this brain drain coming? Germany and Ireland, I am told from very reliable sources, were complaining that the IT industry, which had many Nigerians, had seen Nigerians relocate back to Nigeria leaving their families in Germany and Ireland because of the economic policies of the previous government. The NHS was loosing Drs from Nigeria.

Don't blame the colonialists. This is a capitalist dog-eat-dog system. Blame the Nigerians that helped topple the last government and brought in an inept and clueless and lifeless regime.

NaijaRoyalty:
They are not stealing your people

Your people got tired of the likes of Buhari, Tinubu and Abba Kyari rulling them and too many unfulfilled promises of APC led government .

The unemployment rate hit an all time high since buhari took mantle of leadership , poverty and frustration escalating day by day.

Everyone is tired .

jess2019:
My son will be 9 in October but his behaviour bothers me so much. He acts like a day dreamer. He has turned me into a shouting and miserable mum as I had to beat him after I've exhausted other punishment options. To make this short, I'm going to summarise his behaviour.

He still cannot get himself ready for school in the morning. Either he doesnt cream his body or forgets to comb his hair or doesnt brush his teeth. He forgets to brush his teeth almost everyday. This made me to make a list of step by step sticker. I sticked this on their bathroom mirror and on his bedroom wall. Yet I have to keep reminding him everyday. For example, last week on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday he forgot to brush his teeth and hair. I have to constantly be reminding him every morning. He is the only one that brushes teeth after getting ready. I trained them to brush teeth first before shower but he keeps forgetting.

I have to remind him to do his homework , and put it back in his school bag to return to school on Mondays. The book will still not make it to the school even after constant reminder. We've lost countless of lunch bags. One ended up on school roof. If you give him any form to submit back to his teacher. He will forget in his bag so I now give it to his sister to give to his teacher.

He removes his clothes, shoes, pants, belts etc and leave them on the floor, I bought two laundry baskets for him. One in his room, another in their bathroom, yet all his belongings end up on the floor that you can hardly find a space to put a foot. I dont expect him to be perfect but atleast to try so that his 70% clothes make it to the basket or shoes to their racks. He also has a book shelf and desk yet they also end up on the floor.

He plays so much that sometimes he leaves shops with items in his hands. So I have to always watch out for him. Living in a western country where black boys are stereotyped I fear for him. He can stare at the ceiling for hrs when getting ready for school or spend long time in the shower yet not using soap on his body. This usually makes us late unless I step in to help or keep shouting.

If you ask him to do any house chores, he will not do it instead waiting for us to forget so he can get away with it. When grounded not to watch TV, he will still do it once he knows am inside my room or busy with a baby.

Yesterday we revised all his lesson assignments (5 work books). I specifically asked him to put them in his lesson bag. I pointed at the bag. Now I drop him at the lesson only for him to say oh I think I came with old lesson books. I dont know how he ended up with old books in his bag. It could be he planned it as a way to avoid the lesson. If not I wonder how he will remember it himself as soon as I drop him and his sister as this is unlike him.

I've taken him to a doctor incase there is any diagnosis so I can give him all the help he needs but they said it's just his behaviour because according to the doctor he is smart academically. He is 18months ahead of his year level. So they ruled ADHD out.

bishopkay:
Your father is the vile pig! Your mother is the ho,e your father used as a cum bucket to produce you! Reason I called you a bastard from the beginning because it's written all over you and coded deeply in your DNA.

Bastard! Go to Abuja to weep. Go to ecowas and even world court to cry too you hear? You This useless stupid arsse pig. What do you know about jurisdiction? If the court didn't have jurisdiction would Nigeria ever have honored the suit being a sovereignty?

I'm done educating pigs like you whose parents didn't give home training and still won't read to develop themselves! YOU ARE A BASTARD for ever quoting me in the first place!

Debaiz:
Bro I don’t know if you’re on twitter but you need to read this.

https://twitter.com/sarnchos/status/1139932904040124417?s=21[/quote]God bless you my brother. The whole thing is beginning to make sense now. You don't need to be a genius to know that the whole "contract" is a scam.

Even though I am no longer a fan of Buhari, I cannot wish evil and destruction on my country because of hatred for one man. It does not make sense. If the country perish, we all perish with it.
It is beyond imagination that some Nigerians want Buhari to just dash an anonymous Irish company $850 million without the supply of any goods or services. It is even insane that some Nigerians are celebrating the award of a $9 billion penalty against the country by a foreign court without any justification. Any attempt to seize Nigeria's assets abroad is an act of aggression.

grandstar:
You do have a point.

The primary point I was trying to make and which you too are making is that the law is the law. Be careful of what you sign. Read between the lines.

I tried dabbling into some international business after leaving Uni and was signing NCNDA agreements. In many of these agreements, I'd sign that arbitration will be in Switzerland or some foreign country not wondering how I would get there

grandstar:
This is not a Third World vs First World skirmish. That is the way things work unfortunately for you. The same law that applies to Nigeria would be the same law that applies to America.

A Canadian province, Newfoundland is fond of signing atrocious contracts that deprive it of massive sums with other provinces. Unfortunately, it can't pull out as a contract is a contract. If it did, it would face the law as Nigeria did.

If you for instance wanted to make money from this judgment, simply walk up to the company and assure them you can help them retrieve some or all their money but for a fee. Let's say 15% of any money you recover.

If you know of any Nigerian assets you can seize in order to recover some of the debts and you succeed, you earn 15%.

For instance, read up about vulture funds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_fund

Olominira:
Any African Nation still dealing with European and American companies is putting the lives and prosperity of her people in danger. Please, could someone tell me what the company did or supplied that we did not pay?
At least, this company must have rendered a service or products Nigerians are benefitting from by now that we did not pay.

See the Europeans have the system to cheat us any time any day, they are well established for decades. Sierra Leone canceled an airport project and China did not do anything, the same China the west is critizing on daily basis. UK at the moment has a blinking future until their brexit is formalized. They would do everything to steal, and destroy weaker nations.

I listened to Paul Kagame few days ago questioning the BBC and the UK for their belittling every thing about Africa and always seeing themselves as standard for human rights. I read about this story for the first time on South Africa news early this year. The author questioned why would the company going to court despite not rendering any service. African leaders must wake up and start making sound decisions because of coming generations and black people around the world.

Stop awarding contacts to western companies, at the moment the Chinese offer a better deal by not giving lones directly to the politicians but to the companies executing the projects which are their own.

Debaiz:
We don’t have access to the details of the contract so we don’t know where the contract was signed.

If the contract was signed in London, then a London court will have jurisdiction but if it was signed in Nigerian then like you said why will a Nigerian lawyer go and defend the case in London.

Also if the company is registered in UK and not Nigeria, then irrespective of where the contract is signed, the London court will have jurisdiction.

Whichever way it is, it is a bleeped up and mediocre situation for nigeria to be in.

I have problem with people dragging PMB into this nonsense. You can imagine someone claiming the previous government negotiated an $850m out of court settlement and blaming the PMB govt of not going with the settlement.


How will they go with the settlement? You agreed contract with someone, you refuse to honor the contract and you’re agreeing out of court settlement that is more than times 2 the initial investment without executing anything. It doesn’t make any sense.


If it’s not meant to embezzle money then why will you not honor a contract and you go ahead to approve such huge settlement?

Debaiz:
So between 2015 and now, $850m had grown to $9billion.


You self reason it does this make sense to you? Even if the interest rate is 100% per year will it have grown to $9billion in 4years?

Debaiz:
Oga invertedhammer you’re a forex trader and you don’t know the effect of someone refusing to honor contractual agreement since 2012 and here you are blaming next level. Is it buhari that entered the agreement and defaulted.

You as a trader, with this kind of judgement, imagine what will have happened to the naira if PMB had agreed to float the naira like the useless technocrats advices?

I can’t imagine the kind of trading you’d be entering into with this your biased or ignorance of who to blame for such judgement.

bishopkay:
I know you don't have sense and normally I don't respond to fools but with you I'd make an exception.

You just wrote trash and because you think this is a blind forum you can come here to show case your foolishness huh? Just like your certificate less fraud of a master. What do you know about international trade laws? If the court which decided on this issue didn't have jurisdiction, Nigeria would have never honored the suit which led to all this.

Since you ask why did GEJ's government not pay the money settled out of court, I'd respond with a suiting reply to such a foolish question. Why did the election rigging rugarist not reject the Paris refunds? Why did he not reject the repatriated Abacha loot even after claiming abacha never stole a dime? He should have sent the money to obasanjo or Gej because their governments initiated the moves. So you benefit from the estate of a benefactor but refuse his liabilities?

Now to answer your question albeit foolish, You think being a president gives you unfettered access to approve a payment just like that? These things take time and process which his government no longer had and which I'm very sure buhari was notified about on the hand over notes he was given. He as normal with him simply dumped it as he was only interested in the name "President". The time line for the process began and Nigeria was not on the table courtesy buhari pulling out of the arrangements and asked to proceed to court (go and read up this case and how buhari has handled it so far). Government is a continuous process and buhari goofed big time in this. However I'm not surprised... He's been a failure all along and am I surprised you his supporter Is also this dumb? No... After all Like birds like they say, flock together and for the records, you can relocate to Iran and you can also get nuked with your family too while at it.

Read and develop yourself, you won't agree. Ozuo!

In 2010, P&ID entered into a 20-year agreement with the federal government of Nigeria to execute this project.

Under the agreement, the Nigerian government was to ensure that all necessary pipelines and related infrastructure were installed and that arrangements were made with agencies and third parties to deliver gas for P&ID to process. However, the Nigerian government failed to meet its commitments, causing the project to flounder. This meant Nigeria would lose the opportunity of a new power supply, and P&ID would lose 20 years’ worth of profits.

P&ID attempted on multiple occasions to find a solution, and yet Nigeria refused to come to the table. Arbitration commenced in 2012 before a tribunal in London. Although during the arbitration Nigeria claimed to be interested in reaching an amicable settlement with P&ID, in fact Nigeria never made a serious offer and it became clear that Nigeria was attending settlement discussions only to delay the proceedings.

In July 2015, the tribunal in London unanimously concluded that Nigeria was liable for the government having repudiated the agreement with P&ID. In January 2017, the tribunal ordered the Nigerian government to pay P&ID $6.6 billion in damages, plus interest that is accruing daily at a rate of over $1.2 million and now stands at $2.8 billion. However, because the Buhari administration refuses to pay, P&ID has brought court proceedings, in both the U.K. and the U.S., to enforce the award. If P&ID is successful, they can enforce the award against Nigeria by seizing its commercial assets.
https://pandidfacts.com/about-pid/

MyGeneration:
u sound very stup1d, i just expressed my opinion and u are declarating me as sm1 who hates the country, so because of stup1d u i should not speak my mind.

i am not sentimental in my judgment, before i said that i have done my research, the money is not supposed to be $9billion as of 2015 it was agreed that the government should pay $850million but the new government refused, this is almost similar with innosons case.

do u think that am happy that we are about to loose $9billion, that money is enough to finish our rail system in Nigeria, guy talk well o.

donvicky2007:
That money is too much and I can't agree with you, the best is to settle out of court.

MyGeneration:
Nigerian government should pay, because the more the money lingers the more interest that will accrue to it, before u know it we will be talking 12billion dollars.

Apc govt benefitted from the deal, cause most of the money seized by Efcc from most Pdp members is that money.

MyGeneration:
no matter where the case is taken to Nigeria will still loose

kindredspirit:
I remember reading about this matter some years ago. The government said they had issues regarding how the company executed it's own end of bargain which they took exception to. I think the matter went to court and the government was going to settle out of court.

Looks like this government waved away that agreement with the excuse that the matter belonged to the previous government and should not concern this government. Solicitor General Dayo Apata gave voice to that mindset fatally nailing the case in favour of the company.

bishopkay:
I remember this case and the GEJ's government then opted for an out of court settlement. The arrogant bastard rigging rugarist came in and as usual threw everything he didn't understand away without asking for details forgetting government is continuum

Now Nigeria would pay for his foolishness very heavily! Imagine an out of court settlement which would have seen us pay $850m in tranches now a judgement debt worth $9b in whole payment. And to imagine one very uneducated fool went there with the APC blame game manuscript!

Does he think the UK'S judicial system is like ours here which lack merit and can throw away a case with substance for a filing technicality? They think because they win cases here using the we vs them syndrome they can go replicate that outside the country? Bunch of inept fools!

Aurielfinizu:
DONT MIND THAT ONE..

she is the youngest ever to make such results..

this is why other universities outside Imo state give any candidate from imo high cut off marks in Jamb

Imo state almost produce the highest marks in jamb and weac..

mbaise precisely are very sharp, no wonder they produce the highest numbers of professors in home and abroad.

seunmsg:
$1billion is not a small money for any government to part with without exploring all possible legal options. I wouldn’t have paid if I was also in Buhari’s shoes back in 2015.

Again, why did the PDP administration enter into such a terrible contract and then fail to deliver?

When the Irish took the FG to arbitration, what effort did Jonathan put in place to resolve the matter? He practically did nothing until $6.6billion was awarded against the country in 2013. He then connived with Dezaini to negotiate about $1billion out of court settlement in a manner that raised so much suspicion that he couldn’t pay the money after the agreement. We really need to learn how to apportion blame appropriately.

Going forward, we should support the government to explore all possible legal options before agreeing to a deal. The company is still very open to a negotiated settlement. Nobody is going to pay them $9billion.