₦airaland Forum

I remember sometime in 2014, Atiku came to Unibadan as a keynote speaker and promised to renovate the social sciences Large lecture theater as well as purchase a bus for the department o political science. We waited for about 4 years for Atiku, but he did nothing, or maybe he forgot. Thank God for the fed govt who finally helped with the renovation. You ppl can choose whom to follow sha. I wish you luck

Nogodye:
Kogi Demons strong pass anything...Expecially Igala demons.

Bros.... Dats nowhere near Igala land. That's Okunland, the Yoruba part of the state.

Earthbound:
You decay like every living thing. The universe harvests your soul. The end.

You are a genius!
Warning: you won't be able to hide it for much longer!

I got into an argument with a friend yesterday about the 2019 presidential elections. My emphasised opinion remains that supporters, especially those of the major political parties are supporting their candidates based on emotional sentiments rather than rational- well thought out reasons. He felt the opposite. I thought I should ask nairalanders: who do you consider the best candidate and why is he the favoured option? Kindly support with facts and not sentiments. Thank you.

isahkadir1:
I am from Kogi state, neither Dino nor BELLO is returning.

Bro, are u Ebira?

Who else came here to check out the beautiful lady and not lala's snake? [color=#990000][/color].

PointZerom:

Bad Photoshop sha......

baakus:
u are daft for not assuming it as a mistake

In the academia, we state the obvious
+u are a low life and quick to temper. I hope u make it as far as ur height in inches.

baakus:
Bukola my man

looks more presentation as a President than one Lifeless from Daura

Your use of grammar is terrible!

Charmingrascal:
I was one of those people that was strongly rooting 4 dis young, handsome & energetic man 2 bcme Nigeria President until he was exposd as one of those dat didn't wnt GEJ's Govt to work. That man is a bleeping hypocrite, a wolf in sheep clothing.

How, Cos he was a perpetual antagonist to the Jonathan regimes penchant for corruption?

FarahAideed:
Pound for pound the AK47 is a better and more deadly rifle by every yardstick ...The Tarvor BullPup is just a carbine for close qtr fire fights and can't stand the AK 47 in any yardstick ..May Ignorance not let us make the wrong choices in Jesus Name

U're just savage. TBH, I had same opinion as OP cos looking at both guns, the one used by the DSS looks a lot more intimidating.... or Izit my eyes?

Corrinthians:
The conglomerate of redundant criminals with their charlatans of followers think otherwise.

I feel so irritated whenever I hear the name PDP.

I wonder what's happened to the memory of those who choose to still support them ooo. How pDP has suddenly become the saviour and solution for these supporters. Suffer no dey tire una??

Samade7:
Abeg go sleep.

Ur hypocrisy precedes u, I see

Samade7:
Cos Chad valued d lives of her soldiers n discovered Bht are being empowered in Nigeria by paying dem ransom in dollars. So do u expect her soldiers to stay with una?

May God deliver dis country.

After stating what you don't know, u still call God. Whedne

pol23:
Northerner are the problem bro...
The reason Pdp zone their Presidential ticket...
I personally follow Sowore ,but we can't afford to decide the vote.

I don't think that is the problem. I think the problem is the fact that if PDP emerges, there will be this same agitation for " vote any other but PDP"by 2020. We keep voting unqualified people and seeking ways to vote them out again. It is better to vote ur conscience and not worry about wasting votes. Imagine what would happen if everyone voted his conscience. I wish you well sir.

pol23:
We don't want to waste vote

But you are ready to waste another 4 years of nigeria's progress? Pls, rethink

Racoon:
While the key ministry of finance, petroleum,internal/ external affairs, works/power and almost all the military & paramilitary formation heads goes to the core hausa-fulani muslims elements.

This is never how a president being the father of a nation should ever talk.Just disgracing Nigeria.

Finance was Kemi adeosun from d South west ntil she resigned and a substantive one was chosen, Petroleum is headed by baba himself for obvious reasons, foreign affairs is by Godfrey Onyeoma- South East, works is baba tune fashola. Oga, chief of Naval staff ie. Head of navy is Ibom Ekwe from the South south region and Buhari was the one who made him replace the core northerner at the time so u ppl should cross check ur facts b4 uttering lies!

jumper524:
If theres any reason i can support PDP its because of the discipline and honesty in peter obi as a person..

And what will u do with the dishonesty in most of the others?

The Benin Football Federation has imposed jail sentence to its players for age cheating at Afcon U-17 qualifiers
A Cotonou court on Tuesday sentenced ten players and an official to prison for age cheating and fraud charges.
This is after Benin were expelled from the 2019 Under-17 African Cup of Nations qualifiers after half of the team failed the MRI [Magnetic Resonance Imaging] test last month-September.
With the intervention of several leaders from the federation, the players were stopped by police upon their return home from Niamey, where they were taking part in the qualifiers, and were each sentenced to a month-long imprisonment today.


The new president of the Beninese Football Federation, Mathurin de Chacus, is the one who filed a complaint about the overage player's scandal and promised “very heavy” sanctions, saying this is just the beginning in his attempts to "put an end to corruption, improvisation and amateurism" at the West African country's football federation.
According to AFP's report , several members including a policeman and local elected officials were alleged to have played a part in this scandal but were set free on the "benefit of the doubt".
At the same hearing, the Benin federation's former president Anjorin Moucharafou was also sentenced to 12 months in jail.
Moucharafou had been arrested in July 2011 for fraud.
'Age cheating scandal' is nothing new to Benin as FIFA has previously suspended the country completely in 2004 and also sent several ban threats between 2010 and 2013.
In 2016, their junior national team was embroiled in yet another scandal. Ten players sentenced to prison for age cheating in Benin
Culled from goal.com

K

Any African, who hates Nigeria, probably hates the entire black race. We are very unique in multiple nuances. In academics, various fields of specialties have the impressive footprints of
Nigerians.
In crimes, we have proved again and again that its sophistry is our exclusive reserve. We have gone to bestial limits where we proudly delight in plotting mass murders of our own kith and kin, or extermination of whole communities for political gains. We no longer dread the sight of blood. Why our youths are daring deserts, Mediterranean — Buhari We go paranoid in the worship of God; but demonstrate through words and actions, the unbridgeable gulf about the basic tenets of religiosity.
Very richly endowed in politics, we experiment democracy in a manner that compels political scientists around the world into weekly researches to demystify our complex political mysteries. Nigerians are world acclaimed masters of partisan politics. But, we loath progressive democratic traits and concepts, such as development or issue-based campaigns, innovative ideas, positive leadership character and integrity. But we endlessly adore the negative concepts, with edifying slogans. So, opponents are only good for application of negative partisan concepts like physical or character assassination, arm-twisting, thuggery, blackmail, political vendetta, mudslinging, sentimentalism, ethnicity, sectionalism, regionalism, religiosity, hate speeches and campaigns of calumny.
Incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) is once again under the fire of opposition politicians, partisan spin doctors, Mr. fixers and their minions. Now, like in 2014, the heat against President Buhari in 2018 is not on what else he would do for Nigerians, if reelected in 2019. It is not about his WAEC certificate. So, every Nigerian has become a WAEC or INEC officer. And we have demonstrated enough of our very poor grasp of the issue. While we are asking PMB for WAEC certificate he obtained in 1961 from Government College, Katsina. But the real nomenclature of the certificate is Cambridge West African School Certificate, (WASC). He also earned it from Provincial Secondary School, Katsina; not Government College.

However, it is part of the deliberate confusion, we create to religiously exploit the system and extort money from our unconscionable pay masters. We insistently drum into their ears, how we have launched the “battles” against their rivals and such debasing blathers. It’s all more interesting, the progression of this ranting about Buhari’s certificate. In 2003, when PMB vied against former President Olusegun Obasanjo (OBJ), Buhari’s WASC ( or is it WAEC) certificate was not a sentimental issue. Same in 2007 and 2011. In 2014 it became an issue because Buhari was contesting against a PDP incumbent President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who felt chillingly intimidated and threatened by Buhari’s presidential candidature. Therefore, we exhumed it and made a mountain out of a molehill. But it was Buhari’s saving grace. Former President Goodluck Jonathan, had all the powers and authority in the world to expose Buhari’s “faked”or non-possession of a secondary school certificate, to shame and ridicule him out of the contest. But both open and secret investigations, failed to yield the fruitful results pleaded. Some PDP hirelings and apologists went to court and challenged Buhari over his 1961 WASC qualification. A legal practitioner, Nnamdi Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe played the spoil master. But as the case progressed in an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, presided over by Justice Adeniyi Ademola, the plaintiff voluntarily withdrew the suit. And it was struck out for obvious reasons. This action was initiated after the Buhari’s alma mater, Government College, (formerly, Provincial Secondary School), Katsina officially confirmed that he indeed, sat for WASC exams in 1961 and obtained a certificate. It was released with grades. A Premium Times exclusive report, dated January 21, 2015 explicitly states that the medium, “…obtained the computer printout from Cambridge University as well as a statement of result, signed by the current principal of Katsina College, dated January 21, 2015…The Cambridge print out also shows the result of 17 other candidates at the centre, including Shehu Yar’Adua, a former Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters.” The antagonists’ could not go any further. These are facts in public domain; trashed and conclusively confined to the dustbin of history more than four years ago. But we are back at it again just to keep ourselves excitedly busy on the politicking plane, poking at hard facts, we can never ever crack.
The failure of Buhari’s traducers to claim Mr. President has presented a forged certificate has spurred fresh anger, just to find something to hold against him. They have wonderfully ignored the strength of submissions of Nigeria’s legal luminaries, affirming and reaffirming the qualification of PMB to vie for the office of President of Nigeria in 2019. Provisions of the 1999 Constitution on who is qualified to vie for the office of President of Nigeria are contained in Section: 131 and the issue of academic or other qualifications are clearly defined in Section: 318 (1) of the same Constitution, which have not passed a verdict of guilt on Buhari. It therefore, changed the narrative from legal requirements to morality. I imagine who has vetoed PDP from approaching WASC successor body in Nigeria, WAEC , to confirm the truth or falsehood of the certificate? There are a dozen emergency activists and artificial organizations’ they would have hired to execute the assignment. But they are hesitant. Why? Is PDP not prepared to present incontrovertible evidence that PMB has no certificate? These critics know, when the military junta of IBB ousted Buhari as Nigeria’s military Head of State in 1984, he was dumped into detention for months, by orders of the military government. His private residence was raided and personal documents, including certificates’ carted away by the military government. The action was spurred by the zeal to find something incriminating against Buhari. They found nothing, but never returned his seized documents. PDP and its acolytes are free to make all the noise on certificate. But PMB has not applied to serve as PDP’s BoT chairman or its President.
He is seeking to continue leadership of Nigeria and Nigerians. This propaganda has failed flatly like others before now. Only PDP knows PMB is too old, frail and weak with health challenges to continue to lead Nigeria.
Those who chant PMB’s religious fanaticism and bigotry to indict his character and integrity are usually dumfounded when he pays a visit to the Anglican Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, each time he is in United Kingdom (UK). There are more Muslim Mayors in UK than you can find Emirs in Nigeria. But he visits none, preferring to hobnob with a Christian cleric, who is also his best of personal friends around the world. As a Nigerian and like millions of others, we prefer to again, vote for a leader of integrity, even if he flaunts NEPA bill as certificate. Its better than mortgaging our destinies and future in the hands of known capitalist cum political ones, whose only occupation is feasting on national treasury. PDP! May you know that in 2019, and in spite of your noises, we will still overwhelmingly vote for President Buhari. By Josephine Odoh Odoh writes from the United Kingdom

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/10/buhari-beyond-the-noise-of-waec-certificate/

By Nwafor Sunday

The former Chief of staff, Lt. General Ipoola Alani Akinrinade, Sunday, slammed those criticizing President Muhammadu Buhari over his statement that his West African School Certificate Examination certificate, WACE, was with the Nigerian Army.

In a statement disclosed by Mr President’s special adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the former Chief of Defence Staff insisted that Buhari has a certificate.

Angered at the spate at which Nigerians lambast Buhari over his certificate, Akinrinade blamed the Nigeria’s recording system. His words, “How many years ago ?… 50 years. And Nigeria with our (poor) record keeping and filing things into an archive. If we have an archive at all; an archive inhabited by rats and cockroaches. I think it’s an insult”.

However, clearing the air he said that the certificate saga was an insult to the Nigerian Army, noting that the time Buhari joined the Armed forces ‘there were no cutting corners’.

Read the full statement below:

“… The most annoying one is the case about (Muhammadu) Buhari not having a Certificate.

It is an insult to the Armed Forces, a terrible insult to the Armed Forces.

If they are so embedded in the system and they have lost their souls, then they can go ahead and join everybody else in castigating a General of Buhari’s calibre.

Buhari: Beyond the noise of WAEC Certificate

They are now talking about a School Certificate.

By the time he joined the Army in those days, there were no cutting corners.

It is later when these same Civilians took over from the Army that admission into it became less transparent.

I can give you an instance.

There was Course Five around 1964: if one did not have a School Certificate, one couldn’t apply to join the Army.

And I know up to 1963 when the last General Officer Commanding left Nigeria, there were no corners to be cut.

There was no such thing. Everything was on merit.

Army repairs dilapidated Abia school, procure sports equipment

And that was how it was till Buhari’s time.

Buhari attended the Mons (Officer Cadet School in Aldershot in England) and the Staff College.

I don’t want to think they have an idea what they teach in those places.

And the rest of us pretend as if we don’t know what they do there.

You send a man to America for one and a half years in a Military School.

Do they think he just went there to learn how to fire a rifle ?

No.

As I speak to you, I don’t know where my original Certificate is because we gave the original to the Military Board.

They took it from us when we applied to join the Army.

You give the original copy of credentials to the Board.

They take it and keep it in your file, that’s what happened.

How many years ago ?… 50 years.

And Nigeria with our (poor) record keeping and filing things into an archive. If we have an archive at all; an archive inhabited by rats and cockroaches. I think it’s an insult.

I take it as a personal insult”

– Gen Alani Akinrinade
Culled from the vanguard newspaper
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/10/buharis-certificate-saga-its-an-insult-to-the-armed-forces-gen-alani-akinrinade/amp/

NairaMaster1:
The beauty of it is that 90% of the APC chieftains that are now saints looted the money also. How about that?

1. Amaechi
2. Governors of Kano, Kaduna, Adamawa, plateau, Niger, Bauchi, Jigawa, Zamfara, Katsina, kebbi,
3. Akpabio, Ndume, Omo- Agege, Udo Udoma, Boss Mustspha, Abdullahi Adamu etc

Were parts of the loot. Just that they are now saints.

If u have evidence against them, why dont you blow d whistle, u obviously are privy to some pretty valuable info. If not, please drop sentiments and hear say!

Nemesis001:
But he never saw a prophesy that Buhari will send Nigeria into it 2nd recession?


The same Bakare never saw a vision about how he will win the presidential elections


Bakare will only sing when you call him to come and eat.

U so hypocritical, its alarming. Anyone who heared Okonjo Iweala's warning about our needing to save for the rainy day as well as is smart enough to compare revs in relation to foreign rserve and debt incurred nd during the PDP viz-a-viz APC years would not recommend PDP's reemergence. Pple advocating PDP are simply not looking beyond what happens if PDP returns. Its a pity!

[quote author=zombieTRACKER post=72486357][/quote]With all due respect to Prof, Soyinka achieved his Nobel laureate in the arts which is a highly subjective often fictional field. Why you guys hold his political utterances in such high regard as if he is so much of an empiricist or an expert on politics is beyond common sense.

Johnzzy:
Sorry, but this record was set by GEJ several years ago. Are we celebrating past successes as achievements?

Mad people full APC sha.

Oga.... Gej NEVA made Nigeria Africa's largest economy. His administration only did the rebasing or "recalculation" if u like. The economy had been larger than SA's b4 then but wasnt acknowledged b4 Okonjo Iweala admin as a min of finance. Dont forget to crosscheck online. Cheers

Lmfao. Who else has been bombarded with Saraki propaganda in their spam box in the last few days? Unsolicited messages as they are, check ur spam box, u should have been spammed by now. 2019 is close. You'all shouldn't be deceived to think anyone is working in ur Interests.

KrystosCJ:
Curious as to why this is coming around the corner of the elections.

Another form of vote-buying? Maybe, maybe not.

I was expecting dis. Are u insinuating it was built jst cos elections are around d corner..... lik it was nly built in d last few Mnths or I'm nt nderstnding..... Applaud those who dserve it...It doesn't cost u 3 naira.

nokatakata:
The bomb can fit on their neck. Let them wear their hijabs to the mosque. Hijab is not part of the school uniforms. whether they hide bomb under the hijab or not is nobody's business. Wear you hijab when you are out of school. simple. They don't phucking spend all day in school and won't die if they do not wear the useless hijab to school. No wonder they smell terribly.

Buy honestly, will it hurt any1 if they wear their short hijab? It's what their religion dictates, do not expose certain parts of the body..... its explicit. How different is this act from that of Christians being persecuted elsewhere for following a different creed? There's need for religious tolerance of other faiths. We can't all b Christians r Muslims.

resurgent2019:
Here we go again.....
This issue is very simple, the students should be allowed to wear their hijab since there is a subsisting and valid Appeal Court Judgment allowing hijab. I understand the view of the principal as I don’t like the fact that Muslims will want to put on hijab in a school funded with the tax dollars of Christians, Muslims and traditionalists. I personally wouldn’t want my children in a class with any girl putting on hijab, it is a security issue given the actions of terrorists professing Islam but what can we do when the Muslims insist on putting on the head scarf?

In the circumstance, I would advice Christian parents who are worried about the safety of their kids to save hard and try and enrol their kids in strictly Christian or secular schools where hijab will be prohibited. That is what I do if I were a parent. For now, muslims are allowed by law to put on their heads scarfs. We should move on to other things and not give that terrorist organization called MURIC the sounding board to espouse their fundamentalist BS!

This issue should be resolved fast and not used by bigots to garner sympathy and votes from their base.

I guess u didn't check the pic b4 commenting. Security precaution they'll say. How can a bomb be hidden under dis short hijabs? If it was d full face veil, it'd have been defendable, but this, what bomb can fit under this that cannot fit under the other gals clothes? M nt muslim BTW but this isnt exactly fair.