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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by Nobody: 8:25am On Jan 27, 2016
asswear i love this man ...like him or not he always tell the truth
Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by oluwasegun007(m): 8:27am On Jan 27, 2016
Joblessness don make some people Historian...
Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by ilyas26(m): 8:29am On Jan 27, 2016
That night was indeed deadly, I think the igbo officers were actually bias in carrying out their operations

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by Nobody: 8:34am On Jan 27, 2016

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by tiwiex(m): 8:35am On Jan 27, 2016
I think FFK needs to write one or two books. He should be remembered for something like this.

So this is the genesis of Biafra and also explains why the northerners do not trust Igbos. They back stabbed the establishment. It is good to understand why people act the way they do. Did the hatred start with igbos?

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by Pangea: 8:35am On Jan 27, 2016
Those names though?
No wonder they called it igbo coup!

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by joseph1832(m): 8:37am On Jan 27, 2016
omenka:
Lmao!! cheesy

He's gradually withdrawing from the far left and drifting towards the center. Very soon, he would arrive at far right and complete what I'd like to call The Political Cycle of FFK!!

Trust me, those guys who have been looking up to him as their hero since Baba was sworn in with his scathing criticism borne out of nothing but sheer frustration at the loss of his free meal tickets would start observing him with some dash of cynicism. cheesy

FFK, ride on! grin
Ride on? Ride where? With his half truths and twisted write-ups? I'm starting to believe FFK maybe a siamese twin with our beloved TonyeBarcanista, they both have the unnerving zeal to write what they see fit, devoid of facts and empirical evidence, even when its staring at them, right in their faces.

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by ERAKAMUS: 8:38am On Jan 27, 2016
OLADD:
In summary, those using their office(s) to witchhunt today would one day become the witchhunted.
Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by joseph1832(m): 8:38am On Jan 27, 2016
Pangea:
Those names though? No wonder they called it igbo coup!
There was a Yoruba major there.
Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by porshuch: 8:38am On Jan 27, 2016
I tot FFK said he was 6yrs old, when all this happened?

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by flokii: 8:39am On Jan 27, 2016
Lord knows I can't read al that.. even if you gimme #1m

FFK na human being?
Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by Nobody: 8:39am On Jan 27, 2016
porshuch:
I tot FFK said he was 6yrs old, when all this happened?
"History is a collection of lies that have been agreed upon" - Napoleon Bonaparte

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by repogirl(f): 8:41am On Jan 27, 2016
If you look at that coup closely, na marginalisation cause am.


Anyway, karma is a bit.ch finally.
Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by Nobody: 8:41am On Jan 27, 2016
How To Be A Clueless President.
By Femi Aribisala January 26, 2016
Instead of giving Nigerians the change you championed, give them excuses. Blame Goodluck Jonathan for everything.

In six years of Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency, the opposition told us again and again the man was “clueless.” It made sure the tag stuck to him like glue. But now we have a new sheriff in town, with the APC claiming to be better at everything than the PDP. While that might still be subject to debate, there is overwhelming evidence that in the cluelessness department, the PDP is certainly no match for the APC.

Here is a compendium from the APC textbook of cluelessness, provided within barely one year in office. If you want to know how to be a clueless president, this is the APC blueprint.

Blame Game

Instead of giving Nigerians the change you championed, give them excuses. Blame Goodluck Jonathan for everything, including the harmattan. Whenever you make a blunder, pass the buck to the former president. If there is petrol shortage, blame it on Goodluck Jonathan. If the budget is dead on arrival, blame it on Goodluck Jonathan.

In the middle of an economic crisis, promise to provide Nigerians with free education; free meals daily for millions of Nigerian public school-children; free tertiary education; free health-care and free houses. Facing a drastic drop in Nigeria’s income, declare you will be giving grants of N1.5 trillion a year to Nigeria’s poor. When you fail to deliver on any on these highfalutin promises, blame it quickly on Goodluck Jonathan.

Blunders

Forget the name of your vice-presidential running-mate. Call him Yemi Osunbade instead of Yemi Osinbajo. Tell President Obama the name of your political party is the All Nigeria’s Peoples’ Congress when it is All Progressives Congress. Call your party on CNN the All Progressives Confidence.

Tell Al Jazeera INEC means Independent Nigerian Electoral Commission instead of Independent National Electoral Commission. Even though West Germany ceased to exist in 1999 and the current German president is Joachim Gauck, refer to German Chancellor, Angela Merkel as “President Michelle of West Germany.”

Destroy INEC by turning it into a National Commission for Inconclusive Elections. Go to the United Nations and give a rousing speech about fighting Boko Haram, then fail to attend the crucial meeting on Boko Haram at the same U.N. session. Tell the Americans the Chibok girls were abducted from their “hotels” instead of their “hostels.”

Tell Nigerians there is nothing like petroleum subsidy. Then as president, announce the removal of the non-existent petroleum subsidy. Claim Jonathan diverted $700 million from the $1.1 billion Chinese loan for the Lagos/Kano rail project when only $400 million was earmarked for Lagos/Kano rail. Announce that foreign exchange can now be paid into domiciliary accounts without specifying if depositors will be allowed to withdraw them.

Anti-corruption rigmarole

Declare that you will kill corruption in Nigeria while being surrounded and bankrolled by corrupt politicians. Then invite those with corruption allegations hanging over their heads into your cabinet. Maintain: “Jonathan’s ministers stole 150 billion dollars.” But fail to prosecute them for stealing $150 billion. Tell Nigerians $2.1 billion was stolen by the PDP through Dasukigate, but charge people to court for stealing no more than $100 million.

Believe that trying members of the PDP for corruption on the pages of newspapers amounts to waging a serious war on corruption and is a substitute for national economic policy. Say: “We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital.” Then declare to no effect that recovered stolen monies will be used to revamp the national economy.

Insist Abacha never stole any money, and then probe the PDP for the mismanagement of the non-existent Abacha loot recovered from abroad. Fail to recognise that with the official exchange-rate at N198 to $1, while the parallel market rate is N305 to $1, you have created the widest parallel market margin ever recorded in Nigeria’s history and laid the foundation for widespread corruption in the banks.

Accuse the opposition of using public funds to finance its election campaign, but fail to disclose where you got the money to finance your own very expensive election campaign. Claim to be so cash-strapped, you had to borrow N27.5 million to pay for the presidential nomination papers of your party; then state in your assets declaration that you have N30 million in your bank account. Commend INEC for running the ostensibly free and fair election that brought you to power; then challenge in court every election conducted by the same INEC that your party lost.

Contradictions

Claim you inherited an empty treasury in spite of the over $30 billion left in our foreign reserves. Say you met no money in the treasury, then spend N2.2 billion on a four-day junket to the U.S. with no agenda and with nothing achieved.

Say: the federal government of Nigeria is: “the biggest Boko Haram.” Then become the head of the federal government of Nigeria. Declare grandiloquently: “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody.” Then say: “The constituents (that) gave me 97% cannot in all honesty be treated on some issues with constituencies that gave me 5%.” Say you belong to everybody but ensure that your personal aides are virtually all Northerners.

Say: “I bear no ill will against anyone on past events. Nobody should fear anything from me. We are not after anyone.” “There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue.” Then send EFCC dogs after Elder Godsday Erubebe.

Say: “I pledge myself and the government to the rule of law, in which none shall be so above the law that they are not subject to its dictates, and none shall be so below it that they are not availed of its protection.” Then seek to replace the rule of law with the rule of fear. Go on national television and tell Nigerians you will not be obeying the courts in the cases of Dasuki and Kanu. Interfere in the judicial process by publicly declaring your enemies guilty without trial.

Tell Christiane Amanpour on CNN that you will defeat Boko Haram within two months if elected. Then say you did not say so. Declare that you will defeat Boko Haram by the end of December 2015, then say you only meant to defeat it “technically” after it unleashes mayhem on Maiduguri while you were busy celebrating its fictional defeat.

Say: “Boko Haram is a typical example of small fires causing large fires. An eccentric and unorthodox preacher with a tiny following was given posthumous fame and following by his extra judicial murder at the hands of the police.” Then send troops to massacre hundreds of Shi’ites in Zaria. Involve Nigeria in a Middle Eastern regional struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran by joining the Saudi led anti-terrorist coalition. Open the door for wider terrorist attacks on Nigeria by killing Shi’ites in the North while the Saudis execute Shi’ite mullahs and prisoners in Saudi Arabia.

Prosecute avoidable wars on several home-fronts: against Boko Haramites in the North-east; Shi’ites in the North-west; Biafrans in the South-east; and Niger Deltans in the South-South.

Nonsensical policies

Grind the country to a halt by making yourself Sole Administrator of Nigeria for six months. Squander your vital first 100 days in office doing absolutely nothing; while receiving cheers as “Baba Go-Slow.” Present “body language” as a substitute for policy. Ensure that over N5 trillion is wiped off the Nigerian Stock Exchange within six months of your coming to office.

Promise: “I will stabilise global oil price.” Then watch as the oil price tumbles from $50 to $28 within eight months of your presidency. Also ball-watch as the naira tumbles to a record-breaking N305 to one dollar.

Declare when the country is broke: “I will provide one meal a day for children in public primary schools.” “I will make direct cash transfer of 5,000 naira to the 25 million poorest and most vulnerable citizens.” Propose through your Minister of Science Fiction to create 3.4 million jobs in Nigeria in 2016 through the production of pencils. Plan to have 365 cultural festivals 365 days a year under your Ministry of Culture.

Shout “chanji, chanji” while a large chunk of your party-members are turncoats from the same PDP that ruled the country for the last 16 years. Refer to ministers as noisemakers then establish a Cabinet of ministers. Take six months to choose a cabinet then come out with old cargoes. Tell Nigerians you delayed appointing ministers because you were looking for saints and angels, then appoint many known devils. Say: “The corrupt will not be appointed into my administration.” Then appoint those with corruption allegations hanging over their heads.

Delight in putting square pegs in round holes. Make Kayode Fayemi, who has a Ph.D. in War Studies, Minister for Solid Minerals instead of Minister of Foreign Affairs. Make Professor Anthony Anwukah, a professor of Education and a former vice-chancellor a Junior Minister to a journalist, Adamu Adamu, in the Ministry of Education. Make Solomon Dalong, a former Assistant Inspector of Prisons the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports. Make Muhammadu Bello, who headed the National Hajj Commission for eight years, FCT Minister.

Budgeting

Propose a N6 trillion budget in 2016 for a nation that failed to meet revenue estimates of N4 trillion in 2015. Predicate this on borrowing N2.2 trillion, which requires N1.2 billion daily to service.

Benchmark your budget on the price of oil being $38 in 2016, making it dead on arrival with the oil price falling to $28 within a fortnight of your budget presentation. Fail to anticipate that, once sanctions against Iran are lifted, the oil price will go further down as Iranian oil is added to the international oil glut. Allocate N40 billion to look for oil in the North East in the middle of an oil glut when Nigeria needs to diversify from oil.

Within the framework of a drastic cut in Nigeria’s income, raise the budget for Aso Rock from N6.6 billion in 2015 to N18 billion in 2016. Earmark N3.6 billion for the purchase of several BMW saloon cars! Budget N1.75 billion for feeding in Aso Rock in 2016 when Jonathan only budgeted N530 million in 2015. Allocate only N29 billion to the Ministry of Agriculture, while earmarking N39 billion for the Ministry of Information and Culture.

Present the budget to the National Assembly without first scrutinising it. Present the budget with fanfare, then send someone to steal it from the National Assembly. Present the budget, then withdraw it after reading it. Remember this: when the budget fails, blame it on Goodluck Jonathan!


http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/articles-opinions/how-to-be-a-clueless-president/

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by alrahmanonline(m): 8:42am On Jan 27, 2016
So.. i think you'll end up attacking Buhari as usual, but i see you don born again When you see the Almighty Olisa Metuh in hancuff plus you no get immunity like fayose...

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by itsmine: 8:45am On Jan 27, 2016
I might not much like ffk as a person, but this is too deep to brush over.

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by bimmy58: 8:51am On Jan 27, 2016
I guess that's why they say "History will judge us even while we are gone". #think straight before you act...

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by porshuch: 8:53am On Jan 27, 2016
imhotep:

"History is a collection of lies that have been agreed upon" - Napoleon Bonaparte
I think this your quote can't work on this century, the social media, camera phones etc just thwarted this your quote. grin

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by kernel501: 8:53am On Jan 27, 2016
fagbalex:
Hmmmmmm Biafrans be like what is wrong with FFk again. Is he not supporting our course again ni, seems Buhari don give am money. But this is just a plain truth nna.

LOOK AM SORRY TO CORRECT YOU, HOW MANY IGBOS DID YOU SEE BASHING HIM ON THIS? AN AVERAGE IGBO MAN IS OBJECTIVE NOT BIASED TO THE TRUTH.

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by TonyeBarcanista(m): 8:59am On Jan 27, 2016
Very informative.
Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by wisenewgem(m): 8:59am On Jan 27, 2016
fagbalex:
Hmmmmmm Biafrans be like what is wrong with FFk again. Is he not supporting our course again ni, seems Buhari don give am money. But this is just a plain truth nna.



What has BIAFRA got to do with this?
Must you raise tribal war from every post on nairaland.
YOU WILL SOON REAP THIS WAR YOU ARE SOWING

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by MrImole: 9:00am On Jan 27, 2016
byteHead:



http://leadership.ng/features/495421/night-darkness-law-karma

What are we going to believe now?

Going by the book of Late Chief Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, "Because I am Involved", it was stated in the book how Major Ifeajuna was the brain behind the coup and how the coup was poorly planned.
According to Ojukwu, Nzeogwu and himself were like "rivals" then and Ifeajuna and Nzeogwu at any time did not fight for biafra .
I also read it that Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu was given a state burial.
Who is lying and which is true?

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by hotdi(m): 9:03am On Jan 27, 2016
I dont even know how to believe FFK's numerous stories, always complicated. Did he supervised the operation? how did he got all the actions on how each person was shot from behind, front, left, right, in bed with wife doing kerewa grin?

Nice piece of art though
Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by Davvymavvy(f): 9:09am On Jan 27, 2016

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by frank113: 9:19am On Jan 27, 2016
This 1966 coup was a plan between the northern military personnel and the eastern military personnel to kill the northern and Eastern prominent military personnel. The killing of the Northern high ranked military men were nearly successful and the esaterners wasn't which led to the massive killings of the ibos in the north that led to the war . stop believing what you don't know and not be deceived by anybody.Go and read the history of Nigeria, look for books like 'THERE WAS A COUNTRY' BY WOLE SOYINKA
Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by MyGeneration(m): 9:20am On Jan 27, 2016
Am an Igbo man.
To me d coup plotters deserved what they got, but my only grouse about the coup is why would d northern populace attack civilians that have nothing to do with the coup?
Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by phranseeqz(m): 9:24am On Jan 27, 2016
joseph1832:
FFK will always say what he doesn't know about, what does one expect from an avid follower of the PDP.

We might even ask him what happened to Major Adewale Ademoyega, because I know for a fact that he survived the coup, fought the civil war and even went ahead and wrote a book titled "Why We Struck".

Just how did FFK come to conclusion that Major Ifeajuna who whoever he named was the head of the coup? Kai! See nonsense wey dis man write for here, to even taint the name of Nzeogwu that he was captured is just nonsense.

I've come to realized that many who write about this civil war don't always get their facts straight! They always twist it. I'll even tell FFK to go and read Adewale Ademoyega's book so his head can be clear about the happenings of the coup because he Major Adewale was among the coup plotters.

Arrant Nonsense!.

Being objective is really hard especially when one is/was personally affected. Though the write-up was insightful, it was biased.
It concludes that there are many sides to a story but only one is true.
Any idea where I can get that book?

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by frank113: 9:29am On Jan 27, 2016
hotdi:
I dont even know how to believe FFK's numerous stories, always complicated. Did he supervised the operation? how did he got all the actions on how each person was shot from behind, front, left, right, in bed with wife doing kerewa grin?

Nice piece of art though
Don't be deceived and go and make research .I will advise you to read books about the biafran war that will explain full detail of about the nature of the coup and the killing of ibos in the northern, the meeting of ojukwu and gowon at the arbury accord
Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by Iroh88(m): 9:30am On Jan 27, 2016
Just look at how disinterested they are. Over an hour since the thread was created yet it can only boast of just 59 comments. cheesy

I know they must be very disappointed in FFK since he didn't serve them their preferred delicacy this time. grin

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by fuke(m): 9:36am On Jan 27, 2016
Fani-Kayode could be useful at times.

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Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by phranseeqz(m): 9:37am On Jan 27, 2016
frank113:
This 1966 coup was a plan between the northern military personnel and the eastern military personnel to kill the northern and Eastern prominent military personnel. The killing of the Northern high ranked military men were nearly successful and the esaterners wasn't which led to the massive killings of the ibos in the north that led to the war . stop believing what you don't know and not be deceived by anybody.Go and read the history of Nigeria, look for books like 'THERE WAS A COUNTRY' BY WOLE SOYINKA

Please did WOLE write 'there was a country'? I thought it was by Chinua Achebe. My thoughts though

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