₦airaland Forum

maupe:
This is totally unacceptable. The AGF should have called for fresh elections. So as to have a fair and free dispensation, a fresh election is the only thing that should have sufficed. If INEC wants to be taken serious, they should discountenance the AGF's interpretation and announce a day for Fresh elections. This is Fraud.

Why should the AGF call for fresh election? What was wrong with the elections held and ascertained to be free and fair? Will you annul the elections? Elections have been held and declared valid, INEC no longer have the power to annul those elections, only the courts can do that.

The problem is not elections that had been held, the controversy is re-run elections in the cancelled areas.

Ibelong2God:
I belong to no political party, I am simply an advocate of a prosperous society.

Straight to the point, it is the APC and all its lying supporters that crashed Nigeria's economy with their words.
Their lies created fear in the minds of the citizens and investors, and this fear is a manifestation of what we are seeing today.

Please can someone tell APC to shun lies that create panic. Someone should also tell buhari to watch his words when presenting Nigeria to the entire world. His words are the mirror through which the world investors sees Nigeria.
Buhari say, 'Nigeria is Prosperous'!!!

You lie, you are a PDP sympathizer since you see nothing wrong with PDP 16-year rule, but blame Nigeria's economic woes on APC that has been in power for less than 6 months.

Was it APC that was responsible for crude oil crashing to less than $50 per barrel.

Was it APC's lying supporters that made Nigeria not to diversify its economy after over 5 years of oil boom, while other OPEC members like UAE and Qatar have diversified their economy?

Was it APC lies that was responsible for running a deficit budget despite crude selling at record prices?

Was it APC that was responsible for running a buget of over 70% recurrent expenditure and 30% capital? (the 30% capital expenditure was never fully implemented, while the recurrent was
always fully implemented)

We can only start assessing APC's economic performance after at least 2 years in power.

IbokUtoroh:
shouldnt the president also be probing the people who instigated and escalated this issue when they swear that they will make the country ungovernable for gej after losing the elections?
so must we always leave the root and attack the branches?
the money in question is huge but I think the president shud also beam his searchlight on who fuel the crisis in that region.
must we be buying arms to eliminate people everytime, money that shud be channeled to development n infrastructure.

Are you listening to yourself? You want Buhari to investigate and prosecute people who threatened to make the country ungovernable for Jonathan. should that not have been the responsibility of Jonathan when he was the president?

porka:
[size=11pt]So how much is Buhari actually looking for now on this one?

$2.2b 'looted' from arms deals or,

$1b arms loan?

Buhari himself does not yet know the total amount allegedly stolen or misappropriated by the last administration, the ministries and parastatals are many, NNPC, Defense, Pensions, customs, etc; and most of them did not audit their accounts for many years.

how the defense budgets had been spent is still a mystery to this new government, the records don't just add up. The government is trying to ascertain which loans they are liable for.
The defense budget for most of Jonathan's tenure averages 1 trillion naira (over $5 billion) yearly. What was done with it, and where are the inventories of the Equipments bought?
Below is the defense budget from 2008 to 2013;
2008: N 444.6 billion (Umar Yar’Adua)
2009: N 233 billion (Umar Yar’Adua)
2010: N 264 (Umar Yar’Adua)
2011: N 348 billion (Goodluck Jonathan)
2012: N 921.91 billion (Goodluck Jonathan)
2013:N1.055 trillion (Goodluck Jonathan)
2014: N968 billion (Goodluck Jonathan) - See more at: http://www.nigerianobservernews.com/2015/01/11/budget-nigerian-ministry-defence-need-accountability/#sthash.WvOQMV72.d8E5D2OP.dpuf
Jonathan spent over 3.5 trillion naira on defense ( over over 18 billion dollars) not minding the alleged $1billion loan. Is it out of place for the new government and Nigerians in general to ask how these monies were spent?

Who is helping Buhari with his various calculations?

Various committees he had inaugurated, EFCC, and others. If the national assembly was not so useless, they too should be investigating how close to $20 billions were spent on defense in five years and our military is still ill equipped.
He doesn't seem to have got any one right since.

KRILMIJAY:
Enough of all these arms deal this , arms deal that. Someone needs to focus ooo. d year z running out & yet someone hasnt achieved anything, yet someone keeps dwelling in the past.

Are you incapable of reasoning? You want Buhari to accept responsibility for loans he is not sure the federal government obtained in the first place.

You want Buhari to not dwell in the past, and buy military equipment that had been budgeted for, multiple times. A sane government cannot move forward until an inventory of all military hardware and indeed all federal governments asserts are reconciled.

Now if you want to be useful, answer the question, was the $1billion loan approved by the national assembly collected? And if yes, what was done with it with records of purchases and physical evidence.

cheruv:
Stop the hate bro!
Asaba's development is simply feeding off the excesses of Onicha

Where was the excesses of Onicha before Asaba was made the capital in 1991. I was in Asaba in 1993 and it was still a glorified village with only one major road.

Asaba is simply feeding of oil allocations and 13% derivation from mainly delta south and delta central.

It is like someone showing pictures of Abuja and insinuating that Abuja's development is simply feeding off the excesses of Suleja.

Mr Ngasky, i do not share your pessimism. I have designed and installed a couple of solar systems, so i appreciate the challenges.

The problem of dust is a huge challenge especially in the dusty north, that is why solar panels are not very efficient without elaborate and expensive cleaning procedures. I believe solar panels are more efficient down south. Yes the sunlight is lower than the north, but the periodic rains would self clean the panels, eliminating the need for physical cleaning.

Also the battery challenge can be reduced by reducing the battery bank used in the system. As much power as immediately required should be extracted from the system. Back up time of over 4 hours should be avoided.
Solar power system is not economical when it is used as a stand alone power supply system, it must be used with other sources to make it more economically viable. I think a hybrid system of solar panel and wind generators has promising potentials. This would further reduce the battery bank required.

With Nigeria generating and distributing an average of 4,000Mwatts, solar power use is a must. We must research more on solar power systems.

What would IPOB/TAN have said if NJC had investigated a judge, found him/her guilty and send a recommendation letter for sack or retirement and Buhari declined. Let me guess some sensational headlines.

- BUHARI SUPPORTS CORRUPTION, fails to sack corrupt judge.
- IS THE CHANGE WE VOTED FOR? Buhari goes against NJC's fight against corruption.

Subsequently any case handled by the said judge would make headlines.

The quotes below are Dasuki's defense.

All contracts and accruing payments were with the approval of the President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces. Once the ex-President approved, the former NSA paid. So, there was due process for every purchase in line with regulations guiding arms procurement for the Armed Forces.

He is saying his duty is to pay once he receives approval papers from the president.

There were no fictitious contracts; contract sums were not diverted and the relevant services in writing acknowledged delivery of equipment.
These are some of the acknowledgement letters submitted to me by the end-users(the services). It is not for me to go and find out whether the equipment were delivered or not. I am not the one keeping the inventories.

He is still emphasizing here that his jobs ends after receipt of acknowledgment letters from the various services, it is not his job to physically confirm the equipments.

In order not to endanger the nation’s security, there are many salient issues and contracts which I cannot put in public domain. I am ready for trial on all these allegations in order to prove to Nigerians that I did nothing untoward in office. We will certainly meet in court.

I have a lot to tell Nigerians but in the interim, they should not believe some of the allegations as the gospel truths. The good thing is that some of the key actors in the present administration were parts of the past process being viciously challenged.

This is a subtle threat, he is ready to spill the beans if pushed to the wall.

Atiku president? Not when OBJ is alive.

InLoveWithGod:
That is what you fail to understand. If it is legalized, government will make sure the crude is made available for refining. Or do you think givernment will issue license to them without putting things in order? Just as the crude is made available for other refineries, government can also make the crude available for them if that happens. That will stop pipeline vandalism.

Are you joking? You want government to make sure crude is available to "private refineries", what do you want government to do? Build pipelines from from government storage facilities to all the private refineries or load crude unto trailers to supply the refineries. It is government's duty to suppy crude to its own refineries and not private refineries.

Government's duty is to sell the crude to the refiners, how it gets to the refineries is the business of the private refiners, just like any other product you buy from the open market.

You are still holding on stupidly to this legalize illegality nonsense.

InLoveWithGod:
Now it is illegal, but once it is legalized it is legal. Thereafter, anyone who wish to start, will obtain operation license. Simple.

And you think to these illegal "refiners" are unaware that licences are necessary to operate a proper refinery. You think to obtain operation license is free. You also think they can run a legally licensed refinery on stolen crude by bursting pipelines?

Why is it only illegal refineries that Ben Bruce is advocating for legalization? Why not illegal radio and TV stations, what about illegal cinemas? do they not deserve legalization also? There are also lots of illegal fake drinks and drugs producers, should we not scrap NAFDAC and legalize them all?

AngryNigerian:
But what if we stop waiting for Dangote's refinery and commence the building of private small ones costing about $1-3ml? That is my own version of what he said

$1 - 3millions cannot build a small private refinery, the license, land and storage tanks alone would cost more than $3millions.
Here is a link to give you a slight idea what it takes to build a small refinery - http://en.allexperts.com/q/Oil-Gas-3147/2009/1/COST-SMALL-SCALE-REFINERY.htm

Validated:
Perhaps Colonized. You either accept it or you relocate to Adamawa anyway.
"You would have a say at referendum, but majority would have their way" - APC

Which referendum? You want to force a referendum on us? Nothing concerns the itsekiris with Biafra, the question does not even come up. Including Warri in your Biafra is a great insult on the itsekiris and Urhobos.

iskay1971:
I'm in support of Ben Bruce.
We will have more refineries which is a way to substantiate the change agenda of the FG.
More refineries means more employment creation. It will make petroleum products cheaper and easier to access. Won't these illegal refineries help to stop our nation from importing petrol? Yes! It will also reduce or remove subsidy on petroleum.
Illegal refineries are tagged "illegal" because they are not registered with the FG therefore, they are not paying any more into FG's account. I don't really think they are disastrous.
I think it will help us if our government should legalize and give them necessary aides that can make them useful to the nation.

What you wrote is utterly crap. Cooking a few drums of crude by hundreds of jobless youths will make petroleum products cheaper? it would be an environmental disaster. Calling these crude contraptions "refineries" is glorifying mediocricy, we might as well call ogogoro distilleries refineries also.

So you think the operators of these "illegal refineries" can meet the registration requirements of a proper refinery? Do you even have the faintest idea of what it takes to obtain a license to build and operate a refinery in Nigeria ( or any where else in the world)?

You think these illegal refineries can still make any profit if they buy crude at $40 per barrel (even if they buy at $30)? Their cooking methods waste most of the crude, they are only able to extract very poor quality DPK, AGO and very small PMS.

I have never been a fan of age grade competitions, it is unrealistic to expect an actual 16 year old Nigerian (or sub-saharan African) to compete with a 16 year old European or north American. It would be an unfair competition. A 16 year old Dutch, German, US, or Canadian is fully developed physically, while an average 16 year old Nigerian is still underdevelop. The disparity between girls are even worse, an average 12 year American is as fully developed physically as an average 17 year old Nigerian girl.

In order to even the physical handicap of African, we field over age players (though we tend to over do it). If we field 19 to 20 year olds, no one would notice, but fielding 25 or 26 year old men to represent 16 year olds is an over kill.

If the government wants to play age grade competitions with players within age limits, they have to start a program of catching very young kids, less than 10 years old, and feeding them on a special diet to make them develop physically by age 16.

As it is the Europeans are just using our "men" to train their kids.

I am ashamed such nonsense is coming from the mouth of a Nigerian senator, i am even more ashamed by the number of people who support the idea. Nigeria is really in dire straits as regards education, the United Nations need to declare Nigeria's education sector a disaster zone.

Legalize illegal refineries? What the fvck? Has he ever seen these illegal refineries before? These are just over sized drums that is used to "cook" stolen crude and the gas produced passed though a chamber to collect the distillates. Most of the lighter evaporates and heavier condensates are discarded into the environment. It is a very similar process with "ogogoro" distillation. The challenge is not cooking a few drums of crude oil, it is being able to refine tens of thousands of barrels of crude oil in a controlled process and produce quality petroleum products.

Is Ben Bruce and his praise singers aware of the enormous pollution these contraptions called refineries are causing?
Below are a few pics of these refineries to give you people an idea of the amount of damage they are causing.

Refinery business generally is not a very profitable business, it depends on the factor of scale to become profitable. I doubt a refinery refining 10,000 barrels a day can be profitable. Refineries start being profitable at about 50,000 barrels per day. That is why the international illegal crude business is huge, because most refineries try and by cheaper illegal crude. Even with the western Europe fighting a bitter war with ISIS, they are still buying cheap illegal oil from ISIS.

lawrenceunaa:
English speaker who focuses on the mistakes of others and never see the grammatical bludders they commit.



#hypocrite

You cannot compare my typographical errors with the grammatical blunder of the illiterate IPOB youth. I am working at the office and at the same time commenting on nairaland, so my typographical errors are as a result of my divided attention. Meanwhile, can you even make sense of what the IPOB juvenile is saying? He would have passed his thoughts better by writing in Igbo.

NOBLEDANDY:
Just one question....
Is Biafra people countries in diaspora in fight with Nigeria?
Meanwhile those people that made north and other enemies states their resident. The ball is in their court.
I have no advice for them.

I now end this with this note.

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kid.

You just confirmed what everybody has been saying, that IPOB members are stark illiterate jobless youths, who looking for who to blame for their state of hopelessness. You cannot even construct a single line of intelligible english.

Kanu and his acolytes deserves the olympics for lying. Anybody can submit a letter at 10 downing street, there is always someone to receive letters. It is no big deal. So why make it seem as they actually met with the prime minister, when all they did was to submit a letter, which the minister might not even read.

So Mr Bruce almighty, can you explain why you were unceremoniously sacked by baba iyabo in 2003? You mean to tell us that you were doing such a wonderful job and baba still went on to sack you.

NOBLEDANDY:
Please which great question??
And how is Biafra landlocked?
How is even the Igbo's landlocked?
There are Russians who are residing in America does that mean that there are no Russians in Russia or that Russia doesn't exist....
Why can't you reason properly...

You people sometimes talk like children. Is Russia in a war with America? If war breaks out between the US and Russia, then you will know if and how Russians will reside in America.

During the WW2 when the US was at war with Japan, over 127,000 Japanese resident in the US were kept in concentration camps and were only released after the war. - http://www.ushistory.org/us/51e.asp

What do you think will be the fate of millions of Igbos and their properties all over Nigeria should a war break out over this Biafra issue?

chukwudi44:
Will you shut up you bloody fool!!! Who is Sanusi? So because a liar, paedophile and a thief was made an emir we should all go and die!!

I am a stakeholder in this country,I pay my taxes regularly and I demand explainantions whenever such allegations are peddled!! BTW stop having inferiority complex, the ministers,emirs or even ordinary NL mods are not superior to you.

So who are you demanding explanations from? the person(s) peddling the allegations or the persons the allegations are peddled against. It seems you are more interested in the persons peddling the allegations than the allegations itself.

5. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the executive powers of the Federation: shall be vested in the President and may subject as aforesaid and to the provisions of any law made by the National Assembly, be exercised by him either directly or through the Vice-President and Ministers of the Government of the Federation or officers in the public service of the Federation;

Now if your problem is comprehension, then let me break it down for you;

It means the executive powers of the Federation is vested in the president and he can exercise such powers directly or though the Vice - president and ministers or other public officers appointed by the president.

The bold quote answers your question, since the executive powers of the federation resides in the president, it means the chief executive of all ministries, with or without ministers is already Buhari. So deciding not to have ministers in a ministry can never be constitutional. A president is already the chief executive of all ministries, so the question of holding another executive position does not come up.

Blizzy9ja:
We have been using the proceeds to fund a fraudulent One Nigeria... Feeding lazy OduaArewanistan who can't look inward to see what they have in their area

I don't give a fvck about IPOB but it is a better option and the OduaArewa union is a forced parasitic union which no right thinking human would want to continue with.

You have been using proceeds from oil to fund one Nigeria? Ok, tell me your community, local government and state so we know how much oil proceeds you contribute to Nigeria.

Obiagu1:
People get wiser as they grow old.
If there's any growth intellectually in the SS, they should have learnt one thing or another from Nigeria and dangers the future portends.

You have asked for resource control for over how many years now, asking from people that should not, in the first place, be in control of your destiny and your resources.

Unfortunately, there seem to be no wisdom in the SS.
How many of them know how long Nigerian oil are meant to last? If they do, they will know they don't have time. It's either they make full use of their resources now or suffer down the line.

You are asking for 30% from an Hausa man when you can get 100% from Biafra.
There's no wisdom, there is none.

Nigerdeltan are very intellectual if not more intellectual than the south east. The main difference between south south intellectuals and south east is what while the south east allowed their emotions to becloud their intellect, the south south always have their heads on their shoulders.

No resource community in the whole world has 100% resource control, and in fact no country (except you are a super power nation) can control its mineral resources 100%. Even in the US where ownership of oil resources resides in the owners of the land, strict government regulations and heavy taxes are used by government to gain partial control of the resources resides. So your 100% resource control jargon remains in the realm of fantasy.

The Nigerdelta struggle is not to appropriate 100% of the oil resources to itself ( that itself is an invitation for war - both locally, nationally and internationally. ) What happens to communities, local governments and states without oil?
What we want is land control. The greatest injustice to the Nigerdeltans is the land use act, which takes away ownership of our lands and gives it to federal government ( someone in Abuja to distribute as he or she wishes). We want our lands back.
On revenue sharing, we would like to revert to the 50/50 formula as was obtained before the discovery of oil. We do not mind increasing it gradually over a period of like say 10 years, to allow other regions and states enough time to develop their own resources.

On a side note, one thing illiterate Biafrans are unaware of is that even if Biafra is attained and it miraculously include the oil rich Nigerdelta, the quantity of oil available would be greatly reduced. Our exclusive maritime economic zone would be greatly reduced because of the very small land mass of the fabled Biafra. Cameroon and France would benefit greatly from the reduced maritime boundary. This is one of the reasons the northern claim that a sizeable portion of our crude oil revenue is from our expanded exclusive maritime economic zone due to the huge size of the north. This was why the north asked Obasanjo to remove offshore oil from the 13% derivation, but thankfully obasanjo refused.

Udmaster:
freedom by including Ijaws, Itsekiris and attracting insults here and there..

That is the irony of the Biafran agitators, you hate Nigeria because Igbos were forcefully amalgamated with tribes you have nothing in common with and you still want to forcefully amalgamate the Itsekiris into Biafra. Tell me what do the itsekiris and Igbos have in common.

Biafra seems to be Nigeria minus the oil resources. Any community with oil automatically becomes Biafra By force.

EUROBOMBER:
As for the ijaw part you may wish to describe it as a case of interests but I call it treachery.

The Igbos stood by the ijaws risking our relevance as a big tribe when other abandoned them. There were even suggestions before the elections that we should jump ship and join the APC where the two other big tribes were but we decided to pitch tent with the minority ijaw man and sink with him.

If we could do that for them why is a tonyebarcanista/Truckpusher now calling us land grabbers and expantionists?

It's not called treachery, it is called diplomacy. The Ijaws did not force you people to support them, you supported Jonathan because you felt your interests are better protected under him. Jonathan in return rewarded the Igbos with very juicy appointments and contracts and even acknowledged that the Igbos were the pillar of his administrations. So your two interests aligned. If you guys had strategic thinkers, you would have pushed for Biafra when the Ijaws were fighting for resource control, if you guys had joined the militancy and died along with the Ijaws and at the same time push for secession, then the Ijaws would be duty bound to fight and die with you now.

Jonathan lost, and the Ijaws feel they need to align with the new administration to protect the gains they made in the last administration. But Igbos are now shouting Biafra and without any formal agreements or negotiations, assume Ijaws must fight along with them, just because they supported Jonathan. It sounds more like blackmail.

Igbos are making the greatest mistake by drawing the map of Biafra and including Ijaw lands and even renaming the whole of Portharcourt including ijaw area igweocha, and you do not want the Ijaws to accuse you of land grab. You should be aware that people get very emotional over land matters, and most of the anger against the Igbos by Yorubas today is because Igbos refer to the whole of Lagos as no man's land.

As i said you people need to bring in intellectual people to drive your interests, Even Ojukwu had to bring in the brilliant Uche Chukwumerije and the very brilliant Chinua Achibe to drive his Biafra.

EUROBOMBER:
I personally think that the loud call for Biafra by some misguided few is very unnecessary. Why this hypocrisy? Jonathan arrested a lot of MASSOB members and we didn't have this type of protests.

Jonathan promised that he was going to finish the second Niger bridge before 2015 and he did not do it! Why did Jonathan not build the deep seaport at Ibaka which would definitely positively impact the economy of the east after 5yr The weak ijaw Jonathan quickly removed our own Ihejirika as COAS when the north cried of his excesses against boko haram.

Jonathan is not Igbo; he is ijaw. The ijaws are a highly unreliable and treacherous group of people. The behaviour of edwin clark says it all while on nairaland we have barcanista aka tonyebarcanista. It was barcanista that started the talk of Lower Niger comprising the SS & SE but today he is describing Igbos as land grabbers and expansionists.

Let us be sincere with ourselves, this sudden loud call for Biafra is linked to Jonathan's defeat at the polls otherwise why didn't we use the opportunity when Jonathan was there to actualise Biafra? Why do we now expect Buhari to give us the Biafra?

There is nothing wrong in making mistakes and we should accept that we made a political mistake by voting the weak ijaw man in the person Jonathan. let us begin to reach out to the other big two i.e the north and the west to see how we can produce the next president after Buhari.

And for those of you that hate Buhari so much, you can at least console yourself with the fact that he will not rule forever.

Power is transient.

A word is enough for the wise.

I agree with your submissions almost 100%, the part i disagree with is calling Ijaws treacherous, it betrays your lack of understanding of how the real world works. In real life there are no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests. When the Ijaw interest aligned with Igbo interest, they spoke with one voice, but when their interests divulged, the Ijaws spoke against the Igbos. Barcanista and Edwin Clark are only protecting the long term interests of their tribes.

One tragedy of the Biafran agitation is that it lacks intellectual depth, it is driven primarily by an illiterate for illiterates. Compare it to the "bring back our girls campaign" driven by another "Biafran" Oby Ezekwelisi, it got the world attention and became one of the issues that brought down president Jonathan. Imagine if the Biafran agitation was driven by an intellectual giant like oby ezekwelisi.

I am yet to see one influential or intellectual Igbo support the Biafran agitation, all we see are unknown people in foreign lands and aba traders making discordant noise here and there and then of course the online warriors.

Nnamdi Kanu's approach of insults, hatred and call for violence will only create more enemies for Igbos and drive away genuine supporters of Biafra.

KingEbukasBlog:
Then its easy to guess that energy is inherent in God's nature .

"Energy cannot be created or destroyed " - God has always been existing

"Everything is made up of Energy" - Omnipresence - a nature of God : Being everywhere at once

But that does not mean Energy ≠ God but Energy ∈ God => God is "conscious energy"

My opinion in respect to our material universe

Look at that pic . The passage of that property/constituent to life

Could the above be wrong ?

We are basically saying the same thing. Everything is made up of Energy and all we observe and experience are different manifestations of this energy. Now if you choose to call this energy "GOD", i have no problem, but what i quarrel with is labelling a Jewish Man sitting on a throne, bothering his head about how we praise and worship him, God.

Imo State seems to be the most enlightened state in the South East. No wonder they have one of the highest education index in Nigeria. You will find very few Imo people following an illiterate like Kanu on a senseless mission.

If Kanu who without any military training or administrative experience think he can pawn poor and jobless youth to gain fame and relevance, by asking them to pick up arms against the state, then he is more mad than he looks. Once the killing starts the same Kanu would be shouting genocide on his illegal radio and playing the victim and forget he was the one that called for violent confrontation.

I recommend George Orwells Animal Farm to all IPOB youth, it depicts exactly the fate of Biafra, in the very unlikely event that Biafra is achieved.