₦airaland Forum

Beaf:
You're funny. You will find that your folk are sending emissaries to the FG on the inviolability of one Nigeria, it was decided just a couple of days ago. But una no de read!
Those who sent emissaries are the practical ones, while dreamers like you make up fantasy stuff to post on the web, its funny.

Like I said, no govt has the right to bulldoze poor peoples accommodation without rehousing them. That is just wicked.

Dede1:
I had wished your forbearers were able to rationalize these lines in 1967.

Beaf:
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The truth is bitter. I guess that is why you are so angry and turning uncivil, Lol
Dude, the long and short is that oil is the only economic driver in Nigeria and that includes the far-fetched dreams island you have in mind.

As long as the FG is dutifully giving states a monthly stipend, those states MUST see to the human rights of every single individual within their borders and not go bulldozing the homes of the poor in some short-sighted display of wicked arrogance that will only drive the homeless into armed robbery and other crimes.

Beaf:
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Lest I forget, the ports will also close down, because there will no longer be any oil driven business and the Dangote's would have left.
Keep up with your other far out dreams in the meantime.

Beaf:
So what is the duty of state governors, are they just glorified beggars that collect monthly upkeep from Abuja and do nothing? Your reasoning is wishy-washy my brother.

As for the Dangote's and Ibru's moving into Lagos, they only did so because the FG created opportunities in Lagos, not because any governor did. You dream of Lagos being a country? What do you think will happen the moment it declares independence? I will give you a few pointers:

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[li]All oil coy's will relocate their headquarters to the oil producing regions[/li]
[li]All banks will follow the oil coys[/li]
[li]Insurance coys will follow the banks and oil coys[/li]
[li]Manufacturers will follow the money[/li]
[li]Traders will follow the money[/li]
[li]The population will follow the money[/li]
[li]Markets at Idumota, Idumagbo, Balogun, Alaba etc will quickly dry up[/li]
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Lagos, like the rest of Nigeria, is 100% sustained by oil and dependent on the FG. But you can keep dreaming unrealistic stuff that has no basis in reality. What sources of employment will keep such a country going?

The long and short of the argument is that the FG is doing enough to keep Lagos alive, so Lagos in turn should do enough to keep its population happy and their human rights sacred. It shouldn't go around bulldozing the homes of the poor in a wicked display of arrogance.

Beaf:
What more do you want the FG to do for Lagos, bath the governor and brush his teeth? Every state already get tonnes of undeserved money from Abuja, IMHO that is more than enough.
The FG on its own has shown love for the common man by being the first govt ever to ship Nigerians out of the troubled zones of the World; that is caring.

As for your anger about "everybody" moving to Lagos; you might not realise it, but Lagos will quickly collapse without the rest of Nigeria. It is not an island. One important thing to note is that almost all of Lagos IGR comes from increased tax collection, not increased employment and wealth creation. In other words, Lagos like the rest of Nigeria is kept artificially alive by injections of money from Abuja. What country can survive by collecting taxes without generating wealth and employment?
The richest people and greatest employers in Lagos today are not Lagosians, but outsiders; the Dangote's and Ibru's etc. So please stuff that "everybody coming to Lagos" line, its a trash argument meant for the intellectually laboured.

Beaf:
[size=14pt]Do you actually think they love living at Bar Beach? Or do you think horrible circumstances of need and deprivation by the rich, corrupt and powerful drove them there?[/size]
[size=14pt]We need a new Nigeria, one that cares for every last one of its citizens amd goes the long way to wipe the tears of widows and orphans. Ours is a wicked society[/size] that breeds violent responses from those pushed to the wall; if our society wasn't so fragmented, what has been happening across the Middle East would be childsplay in Nigeria; regardless, if this level of wickedness is continued, that day will come and those who think in such cold terms will be swept away.

[size=14pt]13yr old manipulated in grandmother’s death[/size]
By Adeola Akinyode
Saturday, 8 Oct 2011
 
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A 13-year old boy, Nnadozie Dickson, has been manipulated in the death of his 80-year old grandmother, Magdalene Ezeanowane,[/size] an incident which occurred on August 23, this year in Ikotun, Lagos State.

[size=14pt]Nnadozie, who admitted that he conspired with a domestic cleaner, Augustine Ukwoma, 31, to rob the woman, said he did not have any intention of killing her[/size]. According to him, on that fateful day, Augustine had given him some drugs, which he said were sleeping tablets, to put in the old woman’s cup of tea, so as to make her sleep and enable the cleaner to rob her without any hindrance.

SATURDAY PUNCH learnt that it was while spending the last holidays with his aunt, Mrs. Chinyere Umekwe and her family, with whom his late grandmother was living, that the incident occurred.

Narrating the circumstances surrounding the death of the old woman, a source said that the Umekwes had just packed into the neighbourhood.

The late woman’s daughter, who incidentally is a younger sister of Nnadozie’s father, Mr. Theophilus Ezeanowane, was out of the country on an official trip to Ethiopia, and had left Nnadozie and her two little children in their grandmother’s care, as her husband was based outside Nigeria.

The source said that Ukwoma, who had been staying in the same building for two weeks before the incident, was hired by the landlord to clean the compound.

[size=14pt]After Ukwoma learnt that the old woman’s daughter had travelled and her husband was abroad, he called Nnadozie to inquire if there was any hard currency in the house. The young boy naively informed him that indeed, there was a sum of N150,000 in the house and also told him where it was kept.
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Ukwoma then promised to give Nnadozie some of the money if the boy could assist him in stealing the money from the old woman.

[size=14pt]He allegedly gave Nnadozie some drugs, which he said were sleeping tablets, to be dropped in the old woman’s tea.

Nnadozie, after giving his grandmother the drugged tea, noticed that rather than sleeping, the woman started coughing repeatedly and dangerously.

Panicking, the young boy subsequently called Ukwoma to inform him of the development.

Not wanting to lose the money in the event that the old woman dies, Ukwoma asked the boy to go and play with his little cousins, who were playing downstairs, after promising to take care of the boy’s grandmother.

Nnadozie had gone back to the flat with his aunt’s six-year old son when the two children saw Ukwoma trying to suffocate their grandmother with a pillow. They then ran downstairs to the landlord’s flat to inform him.
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An eyewitness, identified simply as Chuka, said Ukwoma was apprehended by the neighbours. After taking the old woman to the hospital, the landlord reported the case at Ikotun Police Station.

The old woman, it was learnt, later died as a result of the complications she developed after the incident. Her son, Ndubuisi, later reported the case at the Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba, where ukwoma is being detained.

However, Nnadozie was released to go home with his father, but must report to the SCID whenever the need arises.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, Mr. Samuel Jinadu, confirmed the incident, saying that the domestic cleaner was currently in police custody.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201110080282896

1luvkipsus:
Beaf, your hands are not clean too.how can u alone receive this number of scam mails in just one week?Anyway, these messages are not new to internet users, they shouldn't bother you so much.

Beaf:
That is the fake Beaf, dufus. If you look again you will notice the difference in spelling.

hoodboy:
Well I still can't explain this picture

Dede1:
[s]History is mostly true to the extent of story teller’s recollection. As I referenced in my previous post, most towns in Yoruba land as lately as 1980 were one-road town. Otta was practically a village in 1980. Even Abeokuta was all about one thorough road in and out of the city. I am not even going to mention Oshogbo, Ogbomosho, Ado Ekiti, Ile-Ife or Akure. Badagry was a fisherman village in 1980. Even my lovely Ijebu Ode town was a farmer’s village then.

As for British upland move away from mosquito infested swampy Lagos to Abeokuta, you claimed many number of reasons manifested such move including hostility of Lagosians. I am not surprised you decided to diminish the menace of little creatures. Anyway by 1861, all forms of hostility by inhabitants of Lagos had been swept under the rug by the British forces. Even King Kosoko turned tail and ran as fast as his legs could sustain and I gathered he did not run far.
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