humnsikan:
Why is the media posturing as though Saraki needs Buhari more than Buhari needs him. Truth be told, Buhari needs Saraki more than Saraki needs him. Antagonizing the Senate president could be the bane of Buhari's administration. As it stands, saraki has little to nothing to lose in not having buhari's support, but same cannot be said of Buhari. The headlines should ideally sound this way: SARAKI REFUSES TO SEE BUHARI. My advice to PMB is to go back to talking terms with the senate president, especially now that the window of opportunity is still open and the later is respecting the president's office and humbling himself. A time would come that the senate president would be tired of all these contemptous attitude from the president and APC and would then make both know the kind of power the head of the legislature, a seperate arm of government, wields.

they should continue their useless propaganda. it is rather helping to widen the crack in apc, an impetus for defection.

Abugab:
These are no lawmakers
They are lawbreakers.
This 8th NASS should be disbanded as it is obvious they will be a bad omen to the growth of the nation and the govt.
Maybe we shall learn to vote the right people next time.

this administration is of dashed hopes. cant you people see? since their inception, nothing good is happening. so much hopes placed on our flying eagles, not as if they were bad, but how did it go! our falcons! boko haram that was almost becoming history is back stronger than ever without an effort by our govt, see what our nass is turned into. the worst in the history of this nation. naira is now almost 300-$. no ministers, no sgf, no head of staff etc after a month. only God knows what would happen next.

handie:
Oga, there's no justification in what u guys did. Imagine ur kids watching their daddies throw punches like school boys. How can u bear the title of an honourable and behave soo dishonourably( call a pig a human name, he'll still act like a pig sha). That not withstanding, I expect Yakubu Dogara to try maintain peace and just go by the party wishes if for no other reason, then for progress of the nation. D house is just over two weeks old and u people are already fighting urselves. For the PDPians trying to mock APC, I'm sure u people haven't forgotten how d NA was always in crises between 1999 to 2007(both senate and house of reps) and the Patricia Etteh rumble..... Na una dey power then o. All these things are normal occurrences in d Nigerian political environment. How a party manages it is what matters

I thought your campaign mantra was 'change' how come you are proud of following the footsteps of pdp? Change only for the name?

londonrivals:



http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/185486-breaking-buhari-appoints-u-s-based-journalist-akande-as-vp-osinbajos-spokesperson.html

if there is any dull nigerian out there, i think it's tinubu. he thought he was doing himself, south-west and apc a favour by using his resources to bring a man with 'born to rule' ideology to the grasp of power, not knowing that the moment he is in there, he will totally forget about him. did anyone see a northerner campaigning for gmb during campaign? the answer is 'no'. now he is using sense by appointing a yorubaman as spokesperson to a professor of law. what does that entails? tinubu and the entire south-west is padlocked for him forever. he will soon appoint a personal vice president to sideline osunbade. naija, e too sweet!

[quote author=RaDaZaBaNa post=34539188].
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Ben Bruce abi ben Lee abi wetin u call yourself , Its good to say d truth but be wise and be more cautious.
Remember Bola Ige ..[/quote

this sounds like a threat, be careful with what you say.

MayorofLagos:
http://www.m.worldstagegroup.com/readnews.php?&id=22243&active=news


The appointment of non-Yoruba to the position of the Nigerian Ports Authority, (NPA) is an insult to the Yoruba nation, the O’odua Nationalist Coalition, (ONAC) has said. ONAC said the position of the NPA Chairman and the Managing Director should be the preserve of the Yoruba people.

In a statement on Monday, the Pan Yoruba group stated that the Lagos port is the second largest source of revenue for the Federal Government adding that the Lagos port is to the Yoruba people what oil is to the Niger-Delta. If consistently Niger-Delta people have been at the helms of affairs at the NDDC, there is no reason why the NPC should not be consistently led by a Yoruba person.

ONAC stated that recent appointment of Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Ado Bayero  as the NPA Managing Director is absolutely wrong. It negates the principles of fairness. How on earth can you appoint some one who has no stream in his home state as the Managing Director of NPA? The Lagos port is on Yorubaland. In a true federal system, the chairman of the Ports Authority must necessarily be an indigene of Lagos or at least a Yoruba person, ONAC stated.

“For several years, the Lagos Port has been a source of financial muzzle for Nigeria. This port is located in Yorubaland and was used for trans-Atlantic trade route for over 1000 years by the Yoruba Nation before the artificial creation of Nigeria. It is disheartening that the Nigerian government has continued to undermine the natural right of Yoruba people to be made the NPA chairman. Successive governments have continued to commit this deliberate error. President Goodluck Jonathan has just committed the same assault on our people by his recent appointment”, the statement signed by ONAC official, Mr Olumide Ajayi stated.

ONAC stated that the appointment of a non-Yoruba as the NPA chairman violates the UN convention on indigenous rights. ONAC stated that the UN convention stresses  absolute need for consultation of state governments in the management of resources that belong to indigenous people the way the ports in Lagos belong to the people of Lagos. Quoting the UN Convention 169 on the right of indigenous people, ONAC stated that   the spirit of consultation and participation constitutes the cornerstone of Convention No. 169 on which all its provisions are based. The Convention requires that indigenous and tribal peoples are consulted on issues that affect them. It also requires that these peoples are able to engage in free, prior and informed participation in policy and development processes that affect them.ONAC said the Yoruba people have for long been taken for granted adding that it was high time the ethnic nationality began to bare her fangs.

The principles of consultation and participation in Convention No. 169 relate not only to specific development projects, but also to broader questions of governance, and the participation of indigenous and tribal peoples in public life.

The group said eventhough President Goodluck Jonathan is of the ethnic minority stock, his understanding of indigenous rights is narrow.

until we start seeing ourselves as nigerians rather than people living in nigeria, we will never get to the promise land. lagos port is owned by the federal government and not lagos state.

kelvyn7:
so buhari trekkers no see snake abi

na only jona trekkers dey see bad, issorite.

na motor kill am b4 for road ooo, nai op dey say jona trekkers encounter snake, smh 4u.

God go answer una, only time shall tell how

how buhari trekker go encounter snake inside night bus? trekking from lagos to abuja in two weeks. heheheeyiii!

elbinmanny:
Sights of Ikot-Ekpene

beautiful but op are you sure most of these sights are not uyo cos if am not mistaken, i know them and have visited them a couple of times?

MissYana:
Poor Pacman. Samuel Peter would have beaten Mayweather.

be enlightened. pacman and peters can never fight cos they are in different categories. peters in heavyweight while mayweather/pacman in welterweight. thank you.

Noloss:
Don't mind op it is not frog it is toad

frog. toad is not edible to humans. in fact it is poisonous

gemick:
how interesting Daddy GO is not only a mover in Nigeria he is also a mover in UK, Holiness and Holy living pays

that man Cameron knows God and believes in Him unlike Obama that is confused. @op, be careful with your statement about the man of God. Let it not be heard that.......!

GIYAZZ:
It's just so heart-breaking though. Why will blacks hate blacks so much? -_-

CC Lalasticlala

i think these baboons should have been to be devoured by apartheid, they dont deserve this freedom.

Emeca:
Even as this move fosters more discord, these south africans need a rude awakening. By the time south african companies and products are boycotted across the continent, they won't need anyone to tell them xenophobia has no rewards.

am afraid terrorism has started in south africa. theirs will be worse cos even shekau sent them message of warning.

Dannyset:
PDP trying all their best to stop Our first Female Governor! God pass una.

is it pdp that is fighting? Apc are full of propaganda. Pdp candidates are conceding defeats even before the announcement of the results. What have we seen from apc? Taraba has 16 local governments out of which pdp cleared 12, so, how on earth would apc win in that state?

kastonkastrol:
Wow. Who will have ever thought that the first governor in Nigeriawill come from the north

APC 4 Life

apc and propaganda. Out of the 16 lgcs results tricking in, pdp has claimed 10. How on earth would apc win. News like this brings chaos if the actual results are announced and apc didn't win.

teemanbastos:
wow..GEJ always 2nd to GMB

gmb surrounded by ppl day r more educated and smart than him. He will end up with the award of the most clueless president Nigeria has ever produced in maybe a year or two.

WisdomFlakes:

LOL. If you remove the "b" from his so-called "bold ideas", what do you have left? Old ideas

still a child to gmb

raumdeuter:
Election is tomorrow, Shouldnt Jonathan be in his hometown Bayelsa voting House of Assembly members

But the disgraced soon to be ex-president cant just keep his nose out of Lagos

The same embarrassment that was meted to you 2 weeks ago still awaits you tomorrow in Lagos

i was in daura yesterday but gmb's house was under lock and key.

PointB:


Then it is foolishness on Buhari's part to ask people to forgive a man who think he's is above reprieve! APC cannot apologise on his behalf, he's not a member of APC! What Buhari should be calling for is his dethronement and and arrest for criminal incitement with the intent to encourage mass murder!

Mr. Akiolu, your people say you are god and cannot descend to human level. Okay ooo. You don't deserve forgiveness, continue in your macabre dance of foolishness, the surugede, dance of spirit!

Let's see how far this goes!

when mama peace said stone anybody that comes to town asking for change, apc took the matter to icc. what happens to akiola now?

PassingShot:
The result of NA election across the country is an indication that GMB's victory was not a fluke.

People were generally tired of PDP's 16 years of mediocre performance throughout the nation with the exception of SE/SS which is really hinged on ethnic and religion sentiment. If not for those two mentioned factors, they would have voted in the same pattern as the other regions.

Let's see how PDP will fare as an opposition party even though the gale of defection we're witnessing now does not mean well for our democracy. I want an equally strong PDP to constantly breathe down on an APC-led central government because it is the only way Nigeria can get it right.

Can't the NA enact a law regulating defection of politicians?

so what do you think of ne and nw? Don't be an armchair journalist, move around for proper investigation. Those regions only think of power returning to the north and nothing else. They only used sw and part of nc to actualise their dreams. The way you are looking at it is not the same way northerners do.

Castos:
Buhari say something now!

una never see something. A house divided against itself can't stand. Buhari is boko haram, so why would he now fight against himself. Just wait and see what will become of Nigeria. God pass Islam.

kaywizee:
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue State is gradually fizzling out with the overwhelming of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last Saturday election.

The former youth director for the Suswam campaign organisation, Chief John Akperashi Gum has already fixed a date, 7th April, 2015 for his defection ceremony.

Meanwhile, former minister of justice, Mike Aondoakaa (SAN) and Suswam’s deputy, Chief Steven Lawani and a member-elect of the House of Representatives for the Ukum, Katsina-Ala and Logo, Emmanuel Udende have concluded plans to defect to the APC.

Yesterday, the former youths director of Suswam, Akperashi withdrew all his campaign vehicles from the PDP campaign organisation, rebranded them with the campaign pictures of General Buhari and Chief Ortom and formally donated them to the Ortom/Abounu campaign organisation in a well organised ceremony.


http://leadership.ng/news/politics/422911/suswams-deputy-lawani-aondoakaa-others-set-to-defect-apc-in-benue

is it not the same pdp that made the apc? Amaechi, atiku, kwankwaso, akume, gemade, saraki, oshiomhole, tambuwal, ngige etc. They should chase those names from apc before thinking otherwise.

Thermodynamics:
That's bull shit.
I am from ss but a strong supporter of Buhari, it is all about change.
Till we Nigerians remove ethnicity from our government/ presidential choices Nigeria will never move forward, my point is we have seen what Jonathan can do (Nothing), let us try something different for once. I don't need to vote for Jonathan because he is from ss, all I am concern about is the betterment of Nigeria, and mind you, Nigeria is in a new phase of democracy, if Buhari do not perform in the next four years he will be kicked out just like Jonathan.

there would have been blood all over the streets if buhari had lost. You will not argue with etc if buhari eventually loses. Imagine them celebrating with knives, spears, cutlasses, machetes and sticks. Our sw, and part of nc people thought it is all about change. Huh! To them it's all about power returning to the north. You people will see the real thing if anything happens now. The elections were rigged in consensus in the north. Even the security agents were the ones holding under age and elderly voters' fingers to thumb print.

dmz1:


Tell us another story

you know, we know, I know and every body knows that Islam is not peace.

Is there another meaning to the word 'peace' that Islam represents that I don't know?

okeyvisafone:
He is the 4th president in 4th republic, contested 4 times with other 14 candidates in the 4th month of the year.
And it is believed that 4 has a numerical spiritual significance.
Guys what do you think?

3rd month. You are fake

Brimmie:
[b]Dear Nairalanders, we all need to understand the concept of Greatness and Heroism. I have been reading Revisionist pieces and White-Washing of Sepulchres on several Social Media Platforms with different people calling GEJ a Hero for conceding to Buhari.

So he is now a hero because he conceded? Did he have a choice?

GEJ has played Politics with the Lives of thousands of our Countrymen for too long. History will never be kind to him. Note that He wasn't magnanimous by accepting defeat, the circumstances and factors were all against him. He didn't concede, he was compelled to. He didn't give us democracy, we demanded it and we got it. He is not a hero by any standard.

We should separate sentiments from matters of National Interest, all those who made hate speeches should be prosecuted. All those who stole our collective wealth must be jailed and made to refund the money.

Sending congratulatory messages to Buhari should not confer automatic Immunity to these Wicked Criminals.

The true Heroes are those who stood up in the rain to vote and stayed to make sure their votes count. Not GEJ who allowed impuntiy unchecked, to whom "Stealing is not corruption".

GEJ's concession of defeat is commendable, but not admirable. He must answer for embezzled funds.[/b]

- Brimmie (2015)

you are a bad winner and an unpatriotic Nigerian. Respect must be given to gej whether you like it or not. In 2011, gej defeated gmb by more than 12 million votes, we never heard any concession speech from gmb; his supporters went to the streets killing, destroying properties and what have you. When he was approached, he simply responded: my supporters were simply expressing their delight and disappointment at the results. Back to this present one, imagine youths in the north celebrating with knives, cutlasses and machetes plus sticks. Here you are talking of somebody that allowed democracy to peacefully thrive even when he had every opportunity to truncate it parochially. This is what gmb can't do.
congratulations to gmb! Let us wait and watch his promises of stabilising world oil price as well as appreciating naira to equal the dollar, end insurgency and corruption. That is our prayer.

Brimmie:
[b]Dear Nairalanders, we all need to understand the concept of Greatness and Heroism. I have been reading Revisionist pieces and White-Washing of Sepulchres on several Social Media Platforms with different people calling GEJ a Hero for conceding to Buhari.

So he is now a hero because he conceded? Did he have a choice?

GEJ has played Politics with the Lives of thousands of our Countrymen for too long. History will never be kind to him. Note that He wasn't magnanimous by accepting defeat, the circumstances and factors were all against him. He didn't concede, he was compelled to. He didn't give us democracy, we demanded it and we got it. He is not a hero by any standard.

We should separate sentiments from matters of National Interest, all those who made hate speeches should be prosecuted. All those who stole our collective wealth must be jailed and made to refund the money.

Sending congratulatory messages to Buhari should not confer automatic Immunity to these Wicked Criminals.

The true Heroes are those who stood up in the rain to vote and stayed to make sure their votes count. Not GEJ who allowed impuntiy unchecked, to whom "Stealing is not corruption".

GEJ's concession of defeat is commendable, but not admirable. He must answer for embezzled funds.[/b]

- Brimmie (2015)

you are a bad winner and an unpatriotic Nigerian. Respect must be given to gej whether you like it or not. In 2011, gej defeated gmb by more than 12 million votes, we never heard any concession speech from gmb; his supporters went to the streets killing, destroying properties and what have you. When he was approached, he simply responded: my supporters were simply expressing their delight and disappointment at the results. Back to this present one, imagine youths in the north celebrating with knives, cutlasses and machetes plus sticks. Here you are talking of somebody that allowed democracy to peacefully thrive even when he had every opportunity to truncate it parochially. This is what gmb can't do.
congratulations to gmb! Let us wait and watch his promises of stabilising world oil price as well as appreciating naira to equal the dollar, end insurgency, that is our prayer.

Sweetguy25:
Goodluck is an ídiot. He should go to hell

It's a pity we have a Nigerian like you, that is if at all you are.

anonimi:



The message is for Buhari with his bogus fraudulent rigged 1.3 million and 1.9 million in Katsina and Kano respectively.

they should come to the north and see how elections are being rigged. It is done in unison with the cooperation and assistance of security agencies and rival political parties but you would hardly hear anything. You are busy fighting each other in the South while northerners that are actually rigging keep mute.

Frankenstein:
Why the heck will civilians try to halt the movement of armed soldiers? There are risks not worth taking. For any purpose whatsoever.

don't mind them. They defied the 24hr curfew only to be shot dead.

sammyj:
Victory again for the change movement and democracy. PDP once again lost to democracy and change, by the end of tomorrow we will crown our victory up with the emergence incoming Presido the incorruptible, distinguish peoples general Buhari and Professor of law Osinbajo. Long leave Nigeria !!!

Shame to shameless PDP and their bunch of swines supporters !!!!!


SAI GMB / PYO !!!!

please read that judge's pronouncements before you comment. Why must you celebrate your own impending doom? Someone else should.

breadandbutter:



Over hyped squad that failed to win any trophy

that goes to show that you were not born yet. This was the team that won 1994 nations cup in Tunisia. They were ranked 5th in the world.