₦airaland Forum

olajay86:
http://www.titopeblog.com/2017/07/senate-blasts-mtn-for-moving-14bn-out.html

The Senate on Thursday said there was a capital flight of $13.92 billion by MTN Nigeria between 2006 and 2016.

Senate confirmation was sequel to the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions on the unscrupulous violation of the foreign exchange policy of the country by MTN Nigeria.

The senate report reads in part: “No doubt there is a disturbing evidence of Foreign exchange ‎hemorrhage in Nigeria especially in this period of recession.

“MTN Nigeria for instance repatriated over $1.3 billion annually since 2006, or $13.92 billion between 2006 and 2016.

“Just for one company, the phenomenon constitutes a huge outflow that could pose challenges for Foreign exchange and National monetary ‎stability”.

The Senate also directed the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to sanction Stanbic IBTC for improper documentation in respect of capital repatriation and loan repayment amounting to $388 million and $199 million respectively.

Medicine after death! Where were they when MTN in collabo with corrupt and unpatriotic public servants kept MTEL prostrate for
MTN to dig in? All we got in return was killings of Nigerians in SA. STANBIC-IBTC plus those unpatriotic and corrupt deserve the big stick.

Will you be quiet! When you had the opportunity to be an object lesson as Presidential Spokesman did you talk straight? You chose to do otherwise. Your efforts at getting back into public reckoning as a journalist who means well for his reading and political space failed before it was launched months back. You are best advised to shop around for more courses abroad and write your deceptive and hypocritical pieces for non-Nigerians who do not really know your unprincipled person!

Solomonudofia:
Ok go to iweka and say it Na...

The damage was colossal!���

attackgat:
Who cares what happens as long the boycott is succesful?

In very short order you will care when the
FG you deride becomes constitutionally empowered to appoint a sole administrator to govern the State and The National Assembly takes over the functions of the State House of Assembly to make law for the State. While I support the right of a people group to self-determination it is in bad taste to do so through hate speech and uncoordinated and poorly strategised moves.

ESDKING:
The boycott is not about influencing who wins the election. Ipob doesn't care about who becomes the governor.
What Ipob cares about is getting the people to withdraw from politics of Nigeria. If Ipob can get 70℅ or more of registered not to participate in the election, the boycott would have been succes. Ipob would have proved the world that they have the support of the people.
The election boycott would prove that the people have lost fait in Nigeria as a whole.
The boycott is about proving that the people don't want to be part of Nigeria any longer by not taking part in election.

But wait ooo, which election are they forcing people to participate in ?
The one people will stand under the sun from morning till night to get accredited and at the end of the day, some hoodlums will attack the ballot boxes, shoot sporadically in the air, leave the lucky ones injured and unlucky ones killed ?
Who doesn't know that election don't take place in Nigeria?. Winners are always declared before the D day.
Is governor Ikpeazu suppose to be the governor of Abia state instead of Uche ogar ?
Is Theodore Oji suppose to be a senator today ? (Someone that was defeated in his polling unit )
Why should people risk their lives to participate in an election while those candidates left their children abroad ?
How many politicians children have you seen at the pooling unit before ?
Even without Nnamdi Kanu's directives, voting participation is useless as long as Nig is concerned.

This issue of boycott shouldn't only be in igbo land alone,it should be across the nation to tell these politicians that they are nobody today without the masses that put them there.
Enough is enough !!.

Cc.attackgat

Meanwhile............

Consider, however, the effect where an effective boycott of the elections results in a situation where no governor is validly elected and a power vacuum is what you have - what happens?

masterpiece86:
http://dailypost.ng/2017/07/25/buharis-ill-health-fayose-irresponsible-clown-sagay/

FAYOSE will prove SAGAY wrong by filing a lawsuit for slander/libel.

asorocker:
Igbos need to cut this people to size and leave the north

Pride goeth before a fall. It's about time we stop looking down on others and viewing Nigeria as a partnership of the unequal.

Dotng:
Continued

I tell you this, and maybe this is unknown to them, the Northern part of Nigeria has the best mineral resources this country can ever think of. There is gold, there is diamond, there is uranium, everything you can think of is in the North, but why are they not prospecting it?

Why?

If you can stay at your desk as managing director of one company and sign documents, and you get bribe of N100 million just for signing a document, and you tell that same man to come and establish a factory costing N100 million but will not get profit from it for the first five years, do you think the man will do such a thing?

No

That is what is wrong. They are getting cheap money. They are not used to labouring for money; they are used to cheap, easy money, they don’t want to work. They don’t have the need to work. But we are saying to them, work and then reap from the proceeds of your labour, but they say no, we don’t want proceeds of any labour, we don’t want to labour, we just want proceeds.

But some Southerners are even against restructuring?

Mention one!

President Obasanjo!

Gen. Obasanjo is an enigma of a sort. You have people like that. You can be an enigma for good purpose, and you can be an enigma for a bad purpose. Awolowo was an enigma for good purpose, for liberation, for freedom, for development of his race. Obasanjo is the opposite, and I will tell you why.

The totality of Obasanjo is a Northern product, his brain, his intellect, his orientation is Hausa. What do I mean? He has been a product of the Caliphate Army. Everything he has been in life has been the result of his being in the Caliphate Army. Don’t forget that this same man was imprisoned and was brought out by the caliphate.

But as AD leader of the House, you rallied round Obasanjo?

Yes, I did.

That was because he was Yoruba, you then did not see him from the Caliphate angle?

I did not. If you watched me on television in those days, if you asked me about Obasanjo I would tell you that the last person I would vote for as the president of this country was Obasanjo.

But when he became president you rallied to support him?

At a point! And I will tell you why.

Why?

In the history of this country, no president has ever done as much as Obasanjo has done to develop the economy of this country. We were in the woods, owing Tom, Dick and Harry before Obasanjo came. He paid all the debts, and we started to have external surplus. Who wouldn’t support a person to do that? When we saw that in him we said let’s give this man a chance.

For that reason we supported him, but there was an undercurrent going on and let me say this for the first time. Atiku (Atiku Abubakar, former vice president) was using some members of the House to undermine him (Obasanjo) on a daily basis, and we thought that was not good. That was not fair.

Were they AD members or PDP members?

PDP members! In fact, when I say PDP members, I mean top PDP members.

Including Speaker Na‘Abba?

Possibly! Most likely, probably and we saw it, and we thought that was not fair.

During the move to impeach Obasanjo you were in the Speaker’s Office when Atiku came to mediate. Is it true that Atiku had a private briefing with Na‘Abba in an inner room?

Na‘Abba is very close to Atiku. Do I need to say more than that? That Na‘Abba could have been working for Atiku? Do I need to say more than that? And we saw it, and there was no point. Everything Obasanjo did was not good. There was nothing he did that was good in the eyes of Na‘Abba. If Obasanjo was going to the toilet, it was bad, if Obasanjo was having breakfast it was wrong for him to have breakfast and it got to the point that Na‘Abba was putting posters around Abuja pushing himself as Speaker. And we said no, this should not happen and I stood up with my AD members and fought it.

We didn’t vote Obasanjo, no. If tomorrow you ask me to vote, I will not vote Obasanjo; but in those days he was doing some right things and we supported the right things he was doing. This is the typical thing about the Yoruba race if I don’t like you and you are doing the right thing I will still support you. That is the Yoruba man for you. The sense of justice is innate in us; I don’t care what anyone says.

In the days of NCNC, my senior brother was in the Western House of Assembly as an NCNC member. He was a minister in the Old Western Nigeria House of Assembly as NCNC member. That is us!

But Paul Unongo in a recent interview with Vanguard, accused the sage, Obafemi Awolowo of introducing ethnic politics when NCNC members overnight defected to the Action Group?

This is what happened. We say in Yoruba that there is a limit to your wanting to be nice to a person. If that person now wants to see you as a fool, we can say, stop there my brother; I am not a fool. What happened was that the NCNC was a nationalistic party; the AG was not that much of a nationalistic party. In the whole of Lagos, all council elections were being won by NCNC even though Yoruba were the people being voted for such as Adelabu, Fadahunsi, Olaitan. We didn’t see any difference between us and the Ibo man; we were all human beings, we were just looking at the programmes of each party.

This thing had been brewing since Zik and Awo were in London. They had these various associations, and it was Zik in one of those associations who said this (Awo) is a Yoruba man, don’t follow him and that was how that thing started. When they came back, Awolowo just overlooked it but when Zik was winning in Lagos and was now disparaging our culture…

In what way?

You know it. We tried to swallow it and pretend that there was nothing – Nnamdi Kanu is doing the same thing now. Yes, Kanu is doing the same thing, but we will pretend as if we don’t know.

Kanu in one of his videos said that if any Ibo man goes to a church headed by a Yoruba man, that man is a fool!

What did Zik say?

It is like he said that he is going to rule us whether we liked it or not. He was going to be in charge, he was going to rule the East, he was going to rule the North, and he was going to rule the West.

We said we didn’t mind you ruling the East, we won’t come there. We won’t come to fight election in the East, and we never did. So, why don’t you fight election in your own area and we fight election in our own area?

All Awolowo did was to say fair enough, this is our house, it is entirely up to you, if you are saying to yourself that you cannot manage your house, you need a stranger to manage it for you, it is up to you. He did not say more than that. What the Yoruba of those days were virtually saying to themselves was we cannot manage our home.

It is just like the UK saying, get a German to come and rule us because Theresa May is not doing well. I don’t think that would be acceptable to an Englishman.

That is not tribalism, it is you saying hold on to your turf, and I will hold on to my turf; if you call that tribalism, we take it.

What does the defeat of the APC in the Osun West Senate contest mean to you?

I am from Osun. We have been badly treated; we have not been governed properly by the governor.

Sometimes, I shudder and ask could this be deliberate? Could this be intentional? This is because I happened to know the governor and knew him growing up as a child.

I also knew him in Alimosho, nice young man and he rose up to be a commissioner in Lagos State. But are you now telling me that a man who served as commissioner for works in Lagos for eight years will not know the rudiments of running a government? Will such a person be in charge of a state and refuse to conduct local government elections? Will such a person be in charge of a state and refuse to appoint commissioners? Is that not even a constitutional aberration? For somebody to be a governor and refuse to appoint commissioners, what is the difference between being a dictator and being a democrat? A democratically elected governor who refuses to appoint commissioners, is he not a sole administrator? That is a dictator, whatever name you call it. So, what could have made this man to think that that is the best way to run Osun State?

Of course, when you sow the wind, you will reap the whirlwind. For almost eight years he has been sowing the wind and now, he must reap the whirlwind. I am sure that he is not surprised that he is losing.

Are you telling me that you don’t need commissioners to make inputs into what you do? It is unbelievable!

It beats my imagination. He is the lord of the manor, no commissioner, no person to ask him questions, nobody to make inputs and so he wakes up one day and says, I want to build an international airport!

Under normal circumstances, who did the quantity surveying? There should have been a lot of underground work before you say you want to build an international airport and commit several millions which are all gone into the drain now.

Why?

There is no airport there. I have the picture of the airport; there is only one dilapidated building standing there.

Then you wake up one day and say you want to build an interdenominational something? Have you had of government building churches? It is because he is alone, he is thinking for himself. He is thinking for himself and talking to himself. He is sowing the wind, and he is reaping the whirlwind.

How does this affect the 2018 governorship election?

He will lose(He meant Aregbesola’s candidate as he is in his second tenure).

So you think the APC will lose?

If he doesn’t lose, I will be shocked. No salaries paid, pensioners are not paid, you go and buy a helicopter for Osun State, and nobody sees the helicopter, except occasionally when you want to go from Oshogbo to Ipetu-Ijesha. By road, it is less than one hour, and you are taking a helicopter there? So, why do we need a helicopter for? What is the size of Osun State in any case?

Have you heard about the educational system in Osun State? You have heard about the opon-imo, not one single one available anymore and we spent billions on it.

All the students in Osun State must wear the same uniform. It is unfair, completely unfair, totally unfair. It is not right. I think he is not being fair to Tinubu. He has done great damage to the man.

I feel sorry for Tinubu, and I am sure he believed in him, and I don’t know what will be going on in the mind of Tinubu now. He fought hard to get him there and at a point in time, during the struggle, he gave Aregbesola his bullet proof vehicle to use just to protect him. What then can a leader do?

And now see what he is getting. Remember when they were about to do the last general elections, Tinubu had to physically go there just to rescue him. So, would they have expected him to have gone to campaign for him for the Osun West senatorial bye-election?

Or would you have expected Bisi Akande to go and campaign for him? So they left him to his own and now he can see himself. He cannot win. There is no way he can go about it. Teachers are not paid, pensioners are not paid, no roads, nothing! Let him point to one thing! He has been trying to build one bridge at Gbongban.

It is unfortunate, very unfortunate, very unfortunate.

What is the way out for Nigeria given the call for restructuring?

We don’t have a choice, and I hope that common choice will prevail. We all know that things are not right, we all know unless we are pretending. We have all been sitting on this fossil oil from the Niger Delta; time is running out on it, development is running out on it. Volvo, one of the biggest car manufacturing companies in the world will soon stop manufacturing cars using fossil oil.

Very soon, the price of crude oil will be $15 or so. Let us go by what we used to have. Let us learn how to work. Even the Holy Bible says you reap out of your sweat. Let us also work, let us begin to tell our children that they need to work. Let us institutionalise the dignity of labour; it is not here anymore.

Take all these things away from the exclusive list apart from Foreign Affairs, Defence, Immigration, Citizenship.

Give police to each region; we used to have it before. Do you know that each region used to have its own police?

Do you remember that when Nigeria was being amalgamated that the North insisted that it be put in the document; the right to secession and self-determination. But those were the things that Ironsi removed through the Unification Decree of 1966. That is where the problem started. Western Nigeria had its own Constitution; the East had its own, the North had its own. As a matter of fact, Western Nigeria had its own Agent-General in London and the house being used by Nigeria in London now was owned by Western Nigeria. We were competing. The first television station in Africa was from Western Nigeria. But now, we cannot build railways just because it is in the exclusive list.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/feel-sorry-tinubu-aregbesola-damaged-olaitan/

On Gov. Aregbesola Baba Olaitan is bullseye!

Loyalblak007:
Your Physics won't allow u

The reason why you have to wait until you have a credit pass in Physics which is physical science - Computer Science is in the realm of physical sciences.

marvelling:
you need to be flogged

You are better ignored!

My sincere apologies. I was misled by some hoax news. Mr. Bean is not dead after all. Mods please take this down asap.

tallestman79:
Keep on wallowing in your hallucinations and delusional fantasy land. Very soon the independence of federal republic of Biafra will be declared before your very eyes. When we told you people that Nnamdi Kanu will be released,you disagreed with us. Today he is a free man,flouting all the useless bail conditions given to him by the zoo. The funny thing is that he is untouchable.

Untouchable? He should enjoy his freedom while it lasts. Next hearing date should soon be here.

Rowan Atkinson a.k.a. "Mr. Bean" dies at 62. He made the world � laugh! Pay your tributes here to a fulfilled life.

And this is a Senator of The Federal Republic of Nigeria! #��gangsterprofile

whitebeard:
I am sorry but the matter is not worth discussing

Really? Due consideration for Increasing globalization should warrant a review of your position. Good leaders like Winston Churchill got a shot at leadership because of informed choice while Adolf Hitler made the www bleed due to uninformed choice. The bane of Nigerian politics has been our unwillingness to query the lives of aspiring politicians. For example, how well was Buhari put to the mill to explain the 53 Suitcases saga?

Drversatile:
Were you paid to ask?

Certainly not Sir. However I know Opinion Poll Companies must be busy about that right now. The World should be interested in looking at who wants to rule the most populous black nation on earth.

That Ayo Fayose wants to be Nigerian President in 2018 is now in the news. In the light of the presence of Donald Duke(SS), Obi(SE), Sheriff (NW) in his party the PDP and Osinbajo(SW), El Rufai(NC), Saraki(NC) in the APC - how SUITABLE is AYO FAYOSE for The Presidency? Nairalanders are invited to comment on this matter considering his past and present which should signpost his future. Please let's keep ethnicity, partisan politics and abusive tendencies out of this.

Ever illogical, Ill-mannered and Bereft of any modicum of shame. #searedconscience

EMTS reach out to ECONET.

seunmsg:
Legally, the state executive council stands dissolved and the commissioners remained sacked. If he wants some of them back in office, he should present their names to the state house of assembly and get them confirmed again. Telling them to go back to office without clearance from the state assembly is illegal and unconstitutional.

Signposts the impunity that pervades the political space in Nigeria.

Jeffboi:
Sorry for ogbeni rauf

He saw it coming he declared fasting and prayers




But are people really happy that they voted PDP in?? Am sure they're happy APC loss

Strange how history repeats itself! Exactly in the same manner Chief Bisi Akande, looking harried on OSBC on the eve of elections declaring (by the revelations of pastors, alfas and ifa priests-lolzzzzz) he would win the election he eventually lost via rigging et al to Brig. Gen Oyinlola rtd!

nazzyon:
Aregbesola congratulates senatorial by-election winner, Adeleke

By Abdulwaheed Usamah

Following declaration of People Democratic Party Osun State West Senatorial By-Election Candidate, Ademola Adeleke, as winner of the just concluded election by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the state Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has congratulated the newly elected senator, just as he maintained that the victory was people choice and must be respected.

The governor, through a statement on his official twitter handle and retweeted by All Progrssive Congress (APC) chapter official twitter handle, recognised Adeleke victory against the ruling party’s candidate, Mudashiru Hussain, who lost to the the Osun west new senator by 0ver 30, 000 votes during the by-election yesterday.

Aregbesola said: “I congratulate Ademola Adeleke on his victory at the polls yesterday.The people have spoken.Democracy won and we respect the people’s choice

“I thank our supporters for their continued show of commitment to our cause. Important lessons have been learnt and we will be back stronger



http://www.theguildng.com/aregbesola-congratulates-senatorial-by-election-winner-adeleke/

Until by the ballot Aregbesola was whipped into line he stubbornly manipulated the party primaries making a mockery of party internal democracy and hopes he has indeed learnt to know he is not all knowing as he appears to arrogate to himself with the resultant damage to the image of APC in OSUN State. A Governor who is overbearing and deaf by choice to what others have to contribute to ensuring good governance will ultimately become overwhelmed by the demand of his office! In similar circumstances Chief Bisi Akande lost the opportunity to continue in office when he refused to listen voice of reason to placate the NUT and Oyinlola was let into office to ruin (not rule) the State. Barring miraculous intervention Aregbesola leaves office shortly with incomplete projects littering the State landscape. Using the Gbongan-OSOGBO yesterday was harrowing! #toofullofhimself

Rokaa:
Last year after Kaduna investment summit, a French agricultural firm Vicampro partnered with Kaduna state on production and processing of potatoes.

The 120 million investment comprises establishment of a 2, 500 tonnes per day potato processing plant, cultivation of 10, 000 hectares of land and generating 30, 000 job opportunities.

The joint venture also aims to balance the potato supply deficit in the country, produce the annual 8 billion worth of french fries we import and start exporting raw and processed potatoes to other places.

This week the first harvest commences in Manchok, Kaura local govt. Congratulations Kaduna may you achieve those objectives.

https://www.arewaonline.com/download/1499510131-potato1jpgeb50afa6bd189e4f14b8ece7d348c129.jpeg

https://www.arewaonline.com/download/1499510131-potato2jpg39dc31de81e90dbbd5e6574899df6e2c.jpeg

https://www.arewaonline.com/download/1499510131-potato3jpg8742a947d0f9ead510b85154aa46fc36.jpeg

https://www.arewaonline.com/download/1499510131-potato4jpg7474023c4a9d776d67a898b1c243244b.jpeg

http://www.arewaonline.com/42/first-potato-harvest-from-kaduna

Thanks to God! #moretocome

Doctuur:
Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja

The President-General of Ndigbo apex organisation, Ohanaeze, Chief John Nwodo, on Friday, said despite the relentless agitation of youths from the South-East, the Igbo preferred restructuring of the country to total break-up.

A statement made available to journalists in Abuja quoted Nwodo as saying this while addressing a cross-section of Ndigbo leaders in Abuja on Thursday.



Nwodo reportedly told them that no ethnic group had more stakes in the Nigerian project than the Igbo and as such could not consider disintegration as a viable option.

The Ohanaeze leader said there was no part of the country where Ndigbo had not invested their resources, even without corresponding investment in Igboland.

He said while Ohanaeze understood and appreciated the circumstances that prompted the agitations for secession by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra and the Indigenous People of Biafra, Igbo leaders did not consider secession as a reasonable option.

The statement read, “He (Nwodo) said that restructuring will bring Nigeria to a level where every person of any tribe, religion or class, would have a sense of belonging and in return, give their best for the development of the country.”

According to the statement, Nwodo was in Abuja to meet with critical stakeholders in the Igbo project to have their understanding and be on the same page with them.

Nwodo also announced that steps were being taken by the body to carry the youth of the region along and ensure that Igbo people have a common and unified position on the way forward.

He insisted that equal partnership, ownership and a level playing ground for all was the right way to go to getting the best out of people and setting the country on the path of growth and development.


http://punchng.com/we-prefer-restructuring-not-break-up-ohanaeze/

"Nwodo reportedly told them that no ethnic group had more stakes in the Nigerian project than the Igbo and as such could not consider disintegration as a viable option."
Better to say "all ethnic groups in Nigeria have critical stakes in the Nigerian and must stand together to ensure it's for the common good"
His preferred choice of words again underscores the observation of Prof. Chinua Achebe when he said - "Chinua achebehad this to say -"There is no doubt at all that there is a strand in contemporary Igbo behavior that can offend; by its noisy exhibitionism and disregard for humility and quietness."

Cessa0:
Can you shut up??

You should back up your demand with a reason. Shouldn't you? It makes your demand credible!

webcalculator:
So brexit will make u.k loose all their properties in other part of the EU? Which kind lawyer are you?

Typical. Not in good taste to speak ill of the competence of another just because you disagree with his position on an issue. Learn from the respected but departed Prof. Chinua Achebe when he said -"There is no doubt at all that there is a strand in contemporary Igbo behavior that can offend; by its noisy exhibitionism and disregard for humility and quietness."
#bitterisnotbetter

DoTheNeedful:
Some of you are just ignorant. Igbos are mainly traders and they have the current Nigerian space as their Market because they are citizens. If Biafra become materialized their market space will shrink by at least 70%.
I don't know how they will make their wealth back in 5 years. You will sell mainly among yourself which is like selling an ice-block to a Canadian. Your so-called wealth is made from profit you make from trading with over 170 million Nigerians.
Mind you almost all developing countries don't tolerate foreigners opening small and medium scale businesses in their countries. This area of business is what is employing millions of Igbos.
Kindly recall the trade rift Nigeria had with Ghana, Zambia and some African countries. It bordered on the small and medium scale businesses our Igbo brothers wanted to start in those countries. They refused and insisted that any foreigner must have a business that is worth at least 500,000 dollars and must employ like 10 indigenes or so.
When you call other people parasites, know that we all benefit from ourselves. The Nigerian population has benefited the Igbos more.



http://independent.ng/2014/09/association-says-ghana-will-regret-sacking-nigerian-traders-markets/

Incisive. Deep. Profound. Informative. Eye-opener. Caveat Emptor. #lookbeforeyouleap

jomonic:
Hi what of the unprintable names that APC used for Jonathan and his wife. APC supporters are extremely insensitive.

What I say to you I say to all across political and ethnic divides. #denigratenotdignityofmankind

LeOstrich:
Yoruba jealousy of Ibos is why they voted a goat herder as president in the 21st century.

What manner of reasoning! Pray, how does one refer to another human created by God derogatorily as "goat herder". It discloses a major reason Ndi'gbo generally speaking arrived at her present location. How I wish this was not so!

hammer6:
THE BRITISH ARE A PROBLEM.

THEY TOOK THE STAR OF DAVID WITH THEM TO LONDON.

IT IS IN THE QUEEN PALACE.

No Jew worth calling one worships or bows to anyone besides God. The Bible is clear on this.

TheCabal:
Nnamdi Kanu has a large following among the jobless Ibo youth, failed traders and businessmen. The people who will die and nobody will care.

Not different from Boko-haram. Only the weak will suffer.

Not quite! Scour the internet and you'll say differently. The IGBO in diaspora has his attention and he has their funds. I sincerely hope we can prevent the imminent distortion and dislocation.