₦airaland Forum

Keep calm and watch the game unfold, no rushing.

By Ifeanyi Chijioke

Our kind and tutored lines we beseech be given all due attention for freedom of speech has received a knock of death. The world leaders must stand up to its integrity, pride, and in defense of the law they made. In keeping of the UN chatter on the rights of indigenous people has endangered the leader of indigenous people of Biafra. It’s in record that Nnamdi kanu is a law abiding leader who has disciplined indigenous people of Biafra to strictly abide by local and international law, the gut for his arrest is nothing but slap on the face of UNITED NATIONS. Meanwhile, this is a gross provocation of indigenous people of Biafra and as endangered people would only wait shortly for due process and immediate release of her leader.

The world should know that arrest of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is the making of monster in indigenous people of Biafra and to prevent and save lives must world leaders stand up to their responsibility. Biafrans as endangered species of terror, genocide, murder and unlawful detentions must be sorted or laws will be taken into their hands. Biafrans call on world leaders to prevail on lawless Buhari to with immediate effect release the leader of the people as he is charged with no crime. Indigenous people of Biafra had never been associated with any bombing or killing as boko haram or ISIS neither are they terrorists or unlawful people.

World leaders must not allow freedom of speech to be trampled upon and defenseless people killed and incarcerated. Biafrans call for immediate release of their leader as this is a continuation of the genocidal acts against them. Pushing a people to the wall will only force atomic reaction and no time will death of justice help the conscience of man. The immediate release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will show commitments at preservation of justice. Safety, supremacy of law and also is the only way to avoid the second genocide of Biafrans as we will gladly embrace death and mayhem for this cause.

http://www./2015/10/open-letter-to-world-leaders-on-arrest.html?m=1

Am a Christian born into Roman Catholic church,baptised, took first holy communion and confirmed in Catholic church,

so my question i think goes strickle to my church and other churches who directly or indirectly put up an image in the name of Jesus Christ and saints with other particles that accompanies them.

Now my questions are

1,What is an idol
2,Why do Christians bow down before the statue of Jesus Christ,Mary nor other people they recognized to be holy were as God him self not through his son or any Angel gave a direct oder to Moses for the people according to Exodus 20 vs 4-5 which he said "you shall not make for yourself an idol in form of anything in HEAVEN or on earth beneath or in water below .
5,You shall not bow down to them or worship them;for I,the lord your God,am a jealous God,"



so my people, I wish to know why things are this why and not the other way round as be commanded.

FKO81:
Anamcity modify the title Anambra state takes first again in sch debate

Quote him for immediate affect

FKO81:
Anamcity modify the title Anambra state takes first again in sch debate

Quit him for immediate affect

Omanbala Amaka

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my parent already but that into my brain since I was born, so any Yoruba man trying to make me believe am from some were in yorubaland must be stupid

AS the Senate begins the screen­ing of 21 ministerial nominees to­morrow, we strongly support its decision that the nominees, who have held public office before must produce written evidence of declaration of their assets.

We are unequivocal on this stance because the new era of accountability and transparency being championed in the coun­try demands that persons, who would hold high offices must be persons of impeachable integrity who have worked, and can be trusted to continue to work in the public interest without compro­mising their offices or sinking into the cesspool of corruption.
Although assets declaration was not made a condition for ministerial appointments by the last Senate in 2011, the require­ment is in line with Section 120 of the Senate Standing Rules which provides that the Senate “shall not consider the nomination of any person, who has held any public office…prior to his nomi­nation unless there is a written evidence that he has declared his assets and liabilities as required by Section 11 (1) of Part 1 of the Fifth Schedule of the Nigerian Constitution.”
Ministerial nominees are also expected to have the support of, at least two, senators from their states and have a clean bill of health from the Senate public petitions committee.
The list of ministerial nominees sent to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari on September 30, and made public by Senate President, Bukola Saraki on October 6, has been generating ripples in many parts of the country. It is, indeed, controversial. Although it has a number of technocrats who can be described as fresh faces in the public sphere, it is largely a recycling of the same politicians who have been at the helm of affairs at different levels of governance in the country for many years. There are five former governors on the list, with some of them currently battling petitions related to corruption and misappropriation of pub­lic funds. A number of the nominees have been in the corridors of power for decades. There are former ministers and federal leg­islators, a former Chief of Army Staff and well known associates of the president, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).
The failure to nominate persons from the younger generation, and the decision to in­clude only three women in the first batch of 21 nominees, is also a minus. It is crass gen­der imbalance and a disregard of younger Nigerians.
Coming four months after the swearing in of the president, there had been expec­tations that the categories of persons that would make the list would be a clear de­parture from the past in which political ap­pointments were seen as a way of rewarding party loyalists. Although some Nigerians, especially chieftains of the ruling APC have in defence of the list argued that the nom­inees are among the best in the land, the members of the opposition Peoples Demo­cratic Party (PDP) have been quick to point out that it is not worth the long wait for it.
A lot of petitions against the appoint­ment of many of the nominees as ministers are now with the Senate. The senators have a responsibility to conduct a dispassionate screening and take decisions that are in the best interest of the country.
We hope that the gender imbalance in the ministerial list, and the neglect of younger Nigerians, will be corrected with the selec­tion of the remaining 15 ministerial nomi­nees. Nigeria should stop the practice of recycling old hands in government. Geron­tocracy is no longer in vogue and it is not likely to take the country anywhere. The government should devise other ways of rewarding old and established politicians other than naming them as ministers. The president would also have done better to go beyond party lines in his search for candi­dates.
The failure of the president to submit names from the remaining 15 states of the federation is also not tidy at all.
As the Senate begins screening the nom­inees tomorrow, we urge it to do a thor­ough job. We strongly oppose the laxity that characterised screening of nominees in the past. Let there be an end to the “take a bow” culture.
In this regard, the impression that has been created that former members of the National Assembly will be given automatic “smooth rides” during the screening pro­cess should be corrected. The announce­ment by the Chairman of the Senate ad hoc Committee on Media and Publicity, Senator Dino Melaye, that nominees who are former members of the National As­sembly “will not be exposed to the same rigorous screening as other nominees” is a great disservice to Nigeria.
As he explained, the ex-federal legisla­tors will be screened first and may be given a modification of the “take a bow” treat­ment. They may also only be questioned during screening by the Chairman of the Committee, who is the Senate President. They may in addition not be required to provide evidence that they have declared their assets because “to become members of the House of Representatives or sena­tors, they must have done so before”.
We take strong exception to this seem­ing plan to create a super class of ex-NASS members who would ride into public office simply because their ex-colleagues in the Senate are in charge of the screening pro­cess. This is not good enough. The Senate must wholly do away with the “take a bow” culture that characterised past ministe­rial screening exercises. All the nominees should be well scrutinized to determine those suitable for the job and those found unworthy should be screened out. There should be no sentiments or favouritism.
In view of the ongoing campaign against corruption in the country, we expect the Senate to ensure that all nominees are free from criminal cases and not tainted with corruption. This will be in keeping with the Buhari administration’s avowed zero-tolerance for corruption.
Let the screening be handled with dis­patch so that the successful nominees can immediately take charge of the ministries to fulfill the administration’s many prom­ises to Nigerians.


http://www./2015/10/ministerial-nominees-should-declare.html?m=1

mmse:
really?

Yes,really

Who deleted this video from political section and why

BIAFRA!!! A ducumentry video televised by an Austrain news media (video)


http://www./2015/10/biafra-ducumentry-video-televised-by.html?m=1

Who deleted this article from political section and why

BIAFRA!!! A ducumentry video televised by an Austrain news media (video)

http://www./2015/10/biafra-ducumentry-video-televised-by.html?m=1

I still give kudus to the Austrian media for their nice Job,

Dandeson1:
so in your diminished wisdom, the best place to comment about Biafra is on a sport thread... please RECIEVE SENSE

Keep on fooling your self,Political section has now become sports thread in your eye abi,unadultrated olodo.



Goooooooo and get sense you fooooooiooiooooool

Dandeson1:
U dey comment bout Biafra on a sport thread, what kinda fool are you... Biafra my ass..

You are more than a fool,were it is supposed to be,I guess you think CRIME section, monkey

Who deleted that thread on political section

"BIAFRA!!! A ducumentry video televised by an Austrain news media (video)" and why.


Pls watch this video and tell me why any mod or what ever they call their selfes tempered with it,visit site to watch(the video due to length can not be uploaded here)

http://www./2015/10/biafra-ducumentry-video-televised-by.html?m=1

R

Yunus2012:
You want to be the world's youngest country abi. Remember that South Sudan also believed that everything will be rosy once they gain independence from Sudan. You need to ask yourself how they are faring now.
Personally I don't see who will miss you if you depart and I think your case will be worse than that of South Sudan.

Another phycophant

Former Rivers State gover­nor, Chibuike Rotimi Amae­chi, has debunked the al­legation that N53 billion was missing from the state Re­serve Fund, under his administra­tion.

Amaechi had described the Jus­tice Omereji –led Panel of In­quiry, set up by Governor Ezebu­won Nyesom Wike, to probe his administration, as a last-ditch effort to blackmail him.

Amaechi, who spoke through his media office, in a statement signed by Bekee Anyalewechi, said: “The mischief is all the more evident, as the funds referred to are funds from the Rivers State Reserve Fund, which was duly approved by the Rivers State House of Assembly, and whose expenditures were duly captured and accounted for.”

The statement, howev­er, said that the ongoing mud­slinging against him was aimed at diminishing the former governor’s towering stature, as a statesman and honest Nigerian.
According to the statement also, every expenditure made of the Re­serve Funds was approved by the extant laws, adding that Amae­chi also explained the purposes for which they were used.

The statement read in part: “The attention of the media office of former Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has been drawn to a statement cred­ited to the chairman of Mr. Nyesom Wike’s invidious panel of inquiry. The statement, credited to the panel’s chairman Justice Omereji of a miss­ing N53 billion is unfortunate and leaves much to be desired. The mis­chief is all the more evident as the funds referred to are funds from the Rivers State Reserve Fund which was duly approved by the Rivers State House of Assembly, and whose ex­penditure were duly captured and ac­counted for.”

It continued: “Ordinarily, we might not have responded to the mis­chief of Mr. Wike knowing that hav­ing failed with his various desperate tactics to stop the nomination of the Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi as a min­ister, he has embarked on this last-ditch effort, which is his trump card in the hope that it will diminish the for­mer governor’s towering stature as a statesman and honest Nigerian. How­ever, in keeping with former Gover­nor Amaechi’s ethos of transparent and accountable leadership, we will again repeat the facts of the matter.

“Between 2013 and early 2015, revenue accruing to the Gov­ernment of Rivers State was cut in half due to dwindling federal alloca­tion to states. From about an aver­age of N20 billion, the state began receiving between N9 and N10 bil­lion. By the middle of the first quarter of 2015, the state revenue dipped to as low as N6 billion. Salaries alone stood at over N9 billion besides other expenses. Government had set aside, the reserve funds as a rainy day fund and had need to fall back to it to fund salaries and projects.

The details of the expenditure were very clearly captured and this information, which was already in the public domain was shared with the incoming administra­tion and the Omereji panel.”


http://www./2015/10/amaechi-declines-n53b-missing-money.html?m=1

SOUNDKING:
they thought we are joking.

They don't know who we are,not at all the zoo is finished, by the time we finish with them they will be hiding their face in shame.

beland15:
Finally the movement for the restoration of BIAFRA has entered the final stage as IPOB led by Nnamdi KANU has started petitioning world influencial institutions to come in and ensure BIAFRA is restored.
The petition for the restoration of BIAFRA was submitted just about four days ago by Ndubuisi Anukwem, IPOB US, and about 10,000 signatures have been gotten a
ready and the signatures are increasing with increasing tempo.
This move is a major welcome development that has been anticipated by both pro- BIAFRANS and anti - BIAFRANS, and the bill will get to Dr. Ben Carson, Donald Trump, Amnesty Intl, US Senate etc.
With this signature move, the IPOB of Nnamdi KANU has proved beyond doubt that they are recall here to have BIAFRA restored and it seems nothing else can stop them.

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/a-call-to-boycott-buhari

Eze Nwauzo

Oboi the rate at which the number of signatures is increasing is soo alarming,my goodness me that means zoogeria is finished.

Wailing wailers over to you,the decendants of cane

The head of the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, Debo Adeniran, has described the ministerial nominee from Ogun state, Kemi Adeosun, as a misfit for the task if eventually confirmed by the Nigerian Senate.


Adeosun was one of the 21 nominees for ministerial positions sent by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Senate and which was read by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Tuesday, October 6.
In a petition titled: Kemi Adeosun’s Ministerial Nomination; CACOL Discovers Another Misfit, Adeniran said after running through the list, he and other concerned Nigerians, cannot pretend to be comfortable with some names, prominent among which is that of Kemi Adeosun, the former Finance Commissioner in Ogun State of Nigeria.

“Whilst conceding to you, as constitutionally empowered, the power to appoint, even without consulting with anyone, we in CACOL consider it a patriotic responsibility on our part to bring to your notice, facts and information at our disposal that are considered useful and helpful to your administration; all in the overall interest of Nigeria and Nigerians.
“This petition, we want to make clear, is not aimed at pulling anybody down or settling scores other than to ensure the right pegs are in the right holes; a sermon you have consistently, since assuming office, been preaching.

“Do permit us to remind you that CACOL had, right from time, been in the vanguard of advocating thoroughness and sincerity in the exercise of selecting those who were to man top positions in your government as Nigerians are yearning for a sharp departure from the ugly past whereby appointments were made strictly as a means of settling loyalists of the ruling party while competence and integrity were relegated to the background.

“You will also remember, your excellency, how we have remained consistently vocal in demanding that some of your favoured party men who had previously served in high public offices but were having allegations of one corrupt act or the other hanging on their neck, be thoroughly investigated and cleared before being considered for higher responsibilities in your government, or prosecuted if found culpable.
“The former governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola is one of such cases in question.

“This is why we would be imploring you to see and treat this piece as just one way of contributing our quota to the process of that positive change in our life as a nation and to further strengthen the degree of impressive credibility and confidence your young administration is presently enjoying from across the country,” Adeniran said in a petition to the President.
He added that Mrs. Adeosun is one individual that cannot add any value or gain to Buhari’s administration which, as the President had promised, would be focused, proactive, selfless and above all, corrupt-free.

He said his protest against Adeosun was due to her many scandals premising on financial mismanagement, questionable and self-beneficial transactions of government businesses, wastefulness, acquisition of questionable wealth, ineptness and graft.

“Report even has it that Mrs. Kemi Adeosun has been parading a dual citizenship (British/Nigerian); a status that constitutionally disqualifies her from holding such office.

“Your Excellency, as you can see from the attached, our office has been inundated with petitions from various quarters, apparently out of patriotic zeal and inclination for a positive change in our national life and polity, as consistently being canvassed by you and your party, the APC and certainly NOT out of personal grudge or bitterness,” Adeniran said adding that his organisation was in possession of documents which chronicles allegations of financial impropriety leveled against her by Organisation of Financial Probity.”

The group had in a statement issued last week accused the former commissioner of dual citizenship, fraud, awarding contracts to her husband, manipulation of government records, and living above her income.

It, also in a press release titled ‘Ten Things People Need to Know About Mrs Kemi Adeosun, Former Commissioner for Finance, Ogun State’, alleged that Mrs Kemi Adeosun’s four-year stint in Ogun State left behind a trail of financial mismanagement, immeasurable ineptness and unspoken avarice. Mrs Kemi Adeosun failed in her primary duty to guide Governor Ibikunle Amosun in prudent financial management.

Among the claims of the group include:
1. A British citizen, Adeosun returned to Nigeria in the early 2000s, having worked at a local branch of a UK building society, but determined to break into the Nigerian financial sector by any means possible
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2. One of the first positions she obtained in Nigeria was in Bolaji Balogun’s ChapelHill Denham where she was asked to resign, following anti-company activities which she executed in conjunction with Niyi Adeosun, her husband – a heavy drinker who has made a career of capitalising on dubious opportunities created by his wife. We would like Kemi Adeosun to let the general public know about the role both she and her husband played in the failed Ogun State Model Schools project which resulted in a huge waste of public funds. Her husband’s company collected an advance payment for building some of the schools yet the structures did not materialise.

3. Although their relationship has since gone awry, it is widely known that it was Mr Wale Edun, former Lagos commissioner for Finance (under Tinubu) who generously recommended Kemi Adeosun to Governor Amosun. Due diligence was clearly not done or else it would have been apparent to Ibikunle Amosun that he was appointing someone who is commonly referred to as a ‘rogue’ in the Nigerian financial sector.
4. On getting the job as Commissioner for Finance in Ogun State, Kemi Adeosun constantly misled both the State Executive Council and the governor by over-inflating the state’s IGR.

This led to the Ogun State government being further plunged into debt. It would be instructive to learn just how much debt Ogun State has accrued in the last four years under the watch of Governor Ibikunle Amosun and his Finance Commissioner. We challenge Mrs Kemi Adeosun to provide an analysis of the recurrent income that supports her IGR claims. Does Kemi Adeosun not know that the huge debts owed to hundreds of contractors should form part of the state’s current liabilities? Ogun State’s finances are in a mess.

5. During her tenure, Kemi Adeosun routinely rejected good opportunities for investor funding of projects, in preference for loans to the state so that she could benefit from kickbacks from banks such as GTBank and First Bank. So devious is she that when given preloaded bankcards, she would specifically demand that the money be handed to her in cash.
6. Kemi Adeosun misled the State Executive Council in divesting from or underfunding potentially lucrative but failing parastatals like Gateway Savings and Loans, Plantgate etc thereby creating business opportunities for companies to which her husband is linked.

7. Kemi Adeosun used her inside knowledge of projects in other ministries to hijack initiatives that the ministries were promoting. A case in point is the flagship programme, Home Owners Charter, which ended up being driven by the Ministry of Finance instead of the Ministry of Housing. Such projects provided the opportunity for profiteering. Based on our research, Mrs Kemi Adeosun managed the statewide supply of the bright green Home Owners Charter porter cabins at six times the going rate.
8. A particularly juicy project was the implementation of the cashless policy. It affected almost all major ministries yet was done without consultation or collaboration, leaving Kemi Adeosun as the controller-in-chief of the ‘thank-you’ packages from the banks who paid her a percentage on a recurrent basis.
9. In the words of a member of staff at the Ministry of Finance, “When Mrs Adeosun can not find a way of personally benefitting from an initiative introduced by any of her colleagues, she is known to kill it with lies, thereby abusing her access to the governor. She would then repackage the same ideas in a way that would benefit her directly, more often than not using the Ministry of Finance or her external surrogates.” The details of such transactions will be made public in due course.

10. It is important for Nigerians everywhere to know that if Kemi Adeosun is appointed to any Federal MDAs, she will without a doubt undermine President Buhari’s intentions by damaging such an institution with her greed and inclination for corrupt practices. Without resorting to bamboozling people with her cockney accent, we challenge Mrs Kemi Adeosun, who is not an indigene of Ogun State to provide the general public with references from the financial institutions she has worked for.

Adeosun said that there was no truth in the allegations and dared the group to provide evidence of their claims made in their statement.

http://www./2015/10/female-nominee-declared-not-fit-to-be.html?m=1

Pope Francis’s speech to the UN called for a coordinated international response to the plight of Christians in the Middle East and Africa: “Christians, together with other cultural or ethnic groups,… have been forced to witness the destruction of their places of worship, their cultural and religious heritage, their houses and property, and have faced the alternative either of fleeing or of paying for their adhesion to good and to peace by their own lives, or by enslavement.

“There are individual persons, our brothers and sisters, men and women, young and old, boys and girls who weep, suffer and die. Human beings who are easily discarded when our only response is to draw up lists of problems, strategies and disagreements.”


While conducting Good Friday services in April, Pope Francis prayed, "We see in you our persecuted brothers, beheaded and crucified because of their faith in you, before our eyes or often with our complicit silence. In this third world war, waged piecemeal,… a form of genocide is taking place…."

As he led services, al-Shabab gunmen attacked churches in Kenya massacring nearly 150 people, singling out Christians for point-blank executions. Yes, prayer and international responses are needed, but the “complicit silence” of the media on the blatant abuse of religious freedom by militant Muslims is irresponsible.

One such continuing abuse is the ongoing genocide of the people of Biafra in what is now southeastern Nigeria. Prior to the creation of Nigeria by Britain’s departure, Biafra was a prosperous indigenous people with over a thousand years of history and a rich connection to Judeo-Christian values and free enterprise capitalism. The yoking together of these proud Igbo people with their Muslim neighbors from the North was an invitation to conflict and abuse.

After Igbo citizens attempted to establish the Republic of Biafra in 1967, a holy jihad was proclaimed by Islamic extremists in the Nigerian army. With army support, the Nigerian government initiated an economic blockade and tried justifying starvation as a legitimate weapon of war. The result was the genocide of millions of Igbo citizens and the systematic elimination of a majority of Biafran elites and leaders.


On December 15, 1968, the American Jewish Congress issued a memorandum, “The Tragedy of Biafra,” stating, “For more than a year, a little noticed but nonetheless savage and tragic war has been going on between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the former Eastern Region of that country which, in May 1967, proclaimed its independence as the Republic of Biafra.”

This September, Justice Oscar Onyeani Umah sent an open letter to the International Court of Justice in the Hague, noted that the 1967 war drew little public attention despite being responsible “for more deaths than have occurred in Vietnam, Burundi, and Sudan. The thirty-month-long war led to the death of over six million ethnic Igbos and other Easterners.”

Sadly, the silence of the international media regarding the plight of Biafra continues to this day. Recent killings of harmless Baifrans on August 30th by a combinations of military and police remains just one of many attacks allowed under the leadership of Nigerian President Mohammed Buhari.

In response to such killings and calls for a referendum for the peaceful secession of Biafra, Justice Oscar Onyeani Umah, called on the United Nation, The International Court of Justice, The Russian Government, The American Government, and the world at large to stop the continuing genocide in Biafra.

Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Biafra Restoration Movement and the director of Radio Biafra (www.radiobiafra.co), recently received a warm reception at the World Igbo Congress (WIC) Annual Convention in Los Angeles. Nnamdi and his supporters would welcome a peaceful secession by diplomatic means, but, if necessary, are ready to take up arms to achieve independence for Biafra.

The efforts to silence Radio Biafra by the Mohammed Buhari administration has failed. Recent trend data indicates that Radio Biafra is number one in growing audiences worldwide, ahead of CNN. It’s time for the world’s media and international leaders to wake up to the plight of Christians in Biafra, demand an end to persecution, and to support efforts to establish the Republic of Biafra.

http://m.townhall.com/columnists/terrypaulson/2015/10/05/draft-n2060242/page/2

Oya the intellectuals of the west should take over

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has been fingered in the Haliburton bribe scandal.

President Olusegun Obasanjo, who led Nigeria from 1999-2000, during which time he swore to fight corruption in the country, obtained considerable helpings of the infamous Haliburton bribe money, the Special Investigation Panel headed by Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro, has declared in an interim report.
According to the document, which was submitted to *President Umaru Yar’Adua in May last year by Mr. Okiro, Obasanjo shared the sum of $74 million USD between 2000 and 2001 with his Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, as well as Funsho Kupolokun and Gaius Obaseki, who were successive heads of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation during the government’s early years.

During that same time span, said the interim report, Obasanjo and the ruling party, the People’s Democratic Party, also pocketed $5m from the Halliburton slush funds.

Other major beneficiaries included General Sani Abacha, who got $40 million in 1994-95; Ibrahim Aliyu, $11.7million in 2001-2002; former Minister, Dan Etete, $2.5 million in 1996-1998; Abdulkadir Abacha, $1.8 in 1998; and M. G. Bakari, $3.1 million.

http://www./2015/10/sahara-reporters-obasanjo-shared.html?m=1

We don't hear,yolebas trying heard to tag it on China okoro