₦airaland Forum

look at  this mumu OPC with winter hats  his poor brain need a little bit of fresh air  
winter wolly hat Yoruba OPC ugly like Bluetooth sha

i dey laugh Yoruba dey carry weapons muhehehehehehehe   wonders shall never end bloody clowns  

We need referendum

Hausa/Fulani's and their religious fanaticism, igbos over there are the ones to blame they are telling us to go home and these guys are not getting it,SE governors should enable to use this opportunity to fix our infrastructure, so that the home comers wont find it very hard to fit in, time to create a conducive environment so that more igbo business men and women can pick up from were they lost already

TB Joshua muhehehehehe that man i don't no i cant judge cos am not GOD to judge him but it seems like his going through a lot of obstacles in his life from sky news report to now staging up this one what a drama, only GOD knows

mbatuku2:
Sure, he has his eyes on something bigger. He's the only top Easterner in the downstream sector, nothing bad if he uses his home advantage to beat his competitors outside the oil-producing regions.

true dat

ifeanyi uba is just using that to bribe gov rochas so that he can get his hand on oil well in imo state bet me that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How can one take northerners serious?the same people that want C.A.N. to be ban read.

BAN CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (CAN)SAY JUBRIL AMINU

Some in the audience at the just concluded Northern Peace Conference were stunned when a former minister of Petroleum and former education minister, ex-Senator Jubril Aminu called for the banning of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). Jubril Aminu claimed that of CAN was not proscribed, Muslims would be forced to form the Muslim Association of Nigeria. However, what many asked after Mr. Aminu made the comment is what he wants done to the Nigerian Supreme Council on Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) or the Supreme Council on Sharia in Nigeria.

It was shocking to hear ex-Senator Aminu, a former Nigerian ambassador to the United States make such a claim especially as the Central Bank of Nigeria is currently in the process of promoting Islamic Banking as an alternative form of banking. Many at the event are puzzled at the reason why a man, supposedly a statesman would target a particular religion and ask that they be denied their freedom of association rights as guaranteed in the Nigerian constitution at a onference convened to deliberate on pace.

It would be recalled that durng his time as Babangida's minister of education, the same Professor Jubril Aminu introduced the controversial policy of designing Nigerian school uniforms to be compliant to Islamic tradition, a policy that was stoutly resisted by the Christian community.

Reacting to Aminu's calls, a Christian Pastor who has acheived national renown in other fields asked "since Aminu has been born till now, can he tell me how many times he has heard that Christians attacked a church, or that Christians attacked a religious organization. Even Aminu himself know the people who formet violence in the name of religion in Nigeria. As Christ said in Mattew 7:16, by their fruits you shall know them"

^^^

guys things have now change for the best, middle belt are now waken up but don't no how late it is,bad thing is not good cos the pay back is always devastating,

Am watching to see how the dust will finally settle

Look things are not going to be the same for the core north anymore,if i speak my mind now you people will call me all sort of names,look things are happening in Nigeria,the tribal war is still going on while most of you choose to pretend as its all good; okayoooo i dey look.

So all these big talk gowon was running up and down claiming they are holding peace talk for insecurity in the north is all a waste of time on him, his people have wising up they distance themselves from him,talk about betrayal from his people

The Federation of Middle Belt People on Wednesday distanced itself from the peace conference organised by the northern socio-political group, the Arewa Consultative Forum, in Kaduna on Tuesday, saying the North was not ready for peace. The Coordinator of the FMBP in Plateau State, Mr. Manasseh Watyil, in an interview with one of our correspondents on Wednesday, said that Middle Belt leaders were not taken along in the peace process.



Also, the Special Adviser to the Plateau State Governor on Media and Publicity, Mr. Pam Ayuba, described the meeting as one without sincerity of purpose.

Just as the Middle Belt criticised its non-inclusion in the conference, a civil rights activist, Sheu Sani, accused the ACF of using the forum to drum up support for an unnamed preferred Northern presidential aspirant for the 2015 presidential election.

The peace conference was said to have been convened to address the increasing incidences of insecurity in the North, particularly activities of a militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram; the Tiv-Fulani clashes in Benue State and the incessant crises in Plateau State in the Middle Belt. Since the beginning of this year, more than 1,000 people have been killed in bombings in the North East and the Federal Capital Territory by Boko Haram.

Also, the crises in Plateau State have left thousands of people dead. Although the Tuesday meeting was attended by a former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rted) and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Saad Abubakar, notable traditional rulers from the Middle Belt were absent.

They included the Tor Tiv, Alfred Akawu Torkula; Ochi Idoma, Elias Ikoyi Obekpa; Aku Uka Wukarri, Agyo Masaka Ibi and Gwom Jos, Gyang Buba. Faulting the peace conference, Watyil said that it was a gathering of people with political and economic interests.

He wondered why a former Defence Minister, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma; Air Cdr Dan Suleiman; Prof Jerry Gana and other stakeholders in the Middle Belt were absent if the meeting was for peace. Watyil said, "As far as we are concerned, they are not prepared for peace, simply because the people who should propagate the peace, especially the traditional and political institutions, are absent "Even the Boko Haram activities are tailored to Middle Belt. There are series of attacks in the Middle Belt, yet the people that matter, including in religion, politics and traditional institutions were practically absent.

"If the ACF wants peace in the North, the position of Middle Belt in the North should be redefined." Also faulting the meeting, the special adviser to the Plateau State governor said such gatherings had not yielded positive results in the past."

Ayuba told one of our correspondents that although he could not say why some leaders from the Middle Belt were absent, he recalled that the Gbong Gwom Jos, Gyang Buba and the Sultan of Sokoto, had exchanged hot words in one of such gatherings in the past.

Also a prominent Tiv leader and former Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Tsav, said that it was obvious that some Middle Belt leaders boycotted the meeting because they did not want to associate with the North.

Tsav lamented that unlike in the time of the late Sarduna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, northerners had allowed religion to divide them. "The Sarduana dealt with every competent Northerner irrespective of religion. Northern leaders are selfish and these are the people who have benefitted from the North. They are fighting for themselves," he said.

The ACF National Publicity Secretary, Anthony Sani, however said the organisation sent letters to most of the northern leaders, be they political, traditional or religious.

He said, "Reports reached us that the courier services used did not deliver all of them. And that explained our inclusion of invitation by groups in the adverts.

"Some understood and came for the conference on the basis of the adverts, while some others did not. That explained what happened? The conference was intended to bring northerners together to talk things over and reconcile themselves."

Explaining his position on the conference, Sani, in an e-mail message to one of our correspondents, "The conference is nothing but a meaningless talk shop and a gathering of relevance-seekers, political pensioners and hired guns of Presidency.



http://www.punchng.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=7099:north-not-ready-for-peace-%E2%80%94m%E2%80%99belt&Itemid=542

tpia@:
Growing number of israeli igbos.

Growing number of arab igbos.

Am i the only who sees a faceoff in the future- another intraethnic war.

bolded their is nothing like Arab igbos.
we have been practicing Judaism for thousands of yrs is nothing new,religious practice of igbo Jews is similar with the Jewish culture in Israel the evidence was there eg  circumcision eight days after the birth of a male child, observance of kosher dietary laws, separation of men and women during menstruation,

And igbos are not going to have any intraethnic war, this is what our fore father ave been practicing for thousand of yrs.

Few Nigerians may have heard the name, Gordon Duff. I, for one, never did until my attention was drawn to an article he wrote on our country recently which he entitled alarmingly as “Nigeria Targeted for Destruction?”

After reading the doomsday article I Google-searched for his credentials. Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, described him as “a Marine Vietnam veteran, a combat infantryman, and Senior Editor at Veterans Today.” His career, the source said, “has included extensive experience in international banking along with such diverse areas as consulting on counter insurgency, defense technologies or acting as diplomatic officer of UN humanitarian groups.”

Duff’s articles, it said, are published around the world and translated into a number of languages. It also said he is regularly on TV and radio as a popular and sometimes controversial guest.

In his article the man himself claimed he is “known in Nigeria as a national security specialist with decades of experience there.” He also claimed to “have close personal friends at the highest levels of government” and that he was writing his piece out of “deep concern” for the country.

The authenticity of his international banking and counter-insurgency credentials and the genuineness of his concern for Nigeria may be open to question, but he certainly lived up to his billing as a controversial pundit in his 2,754 word article in question.

Consider, for instance, his claim that “the security of the presidency and the entire nation has been greatly compromised by the activities of certain individuals very close to the presidency.” Or that “the issues of government by settlement which had long plagued Nigeria are the orders of the day now where certain individuals are asking for colossal sums of money from certain security consultants to provide training and security equipment to the government.” Or that “one individual in particular has been known to collect huge sums of money from these outfits currently parading themselves as security consultants in Abuja.”

Deriving from these and other even more controversial claims, Duff concluded with apparent certitude that “There are no interests to control the activities of Boko Haram because of the vested interests of certain foreign governments in collision with their agents in the present administration and the country. To some in government, this is another tool to control certain individuals.”

“The terror group, Boko Haram,” he said, was real. But in its current formation, it was, he said, “a proxy of outside powers who plan to balkanize Nigeria, simply another domino to fall as have so many others, Nigeria is Africa, the most populace country, the most oil and gas wealth, the greatest economic potential, the biggest potential market. Thus, Nigeria is a target.”

“Christian Nigeria,” he said, “is being set up, not just to fight a ‘terror group’ in the North but to take on all of Islamic Africa, to draw them into a war that will bring more players, America, for one, into another endless cesspool.”

Without doubt many people would contest the man’s claims and contest his conclusions perhaps even more so. And they may have good grounds for doing so. However, before dismissing him as yet another fanciful grand conspiracy theorist, consider the following facts.

First, fast rewind to the 1967 mass killing of Igbos in the North which followed the 1966 Igbo led coup in which virtually the country’s top political and military leadership of the region’s extraction was wiped out. As we all know the massacre of Igbos eventually led to our three-year civil war which ended in 1970.

For the first time since the civil war, Mr Charles Sharp, the expatriate first managing director of New Nigerian, was able to reveal what really triggered the Igbo massacre in an article published in the newspaper’s edition of January 20, 2003 and which I once made reference to on these pages. Entitled “The story that got away,” it revealed the hidden hand of the Americans in manipulating the events that lead to the civil war.

Sharp’s story deserves being told again and again for the lesson it holds on the futility and even the foolishness of relying on outsiders to the extent we do to resolve our differences.

“At the end of May (1967),” he said in the article, “there was serious outbreaks of violence throughout the region and the general atmosphere of fear and distrust was not helped by radio reports from Cotonou of the killing by Ibos of a large number of Hausas. I checked with government sources and all they would say was that ‘reports have been received.’ Eventually, I was informed the Cotonou reports had been confirmed by ‘a (the American CIA) monitoring service in Nigeria,’ which I took to mean the one in Kaduna. (Its head) John Thorne’s response to my inquiries was a non-committal ‘Sorry, old man, but it is something we cannot divulge to the media.’

“The Cotonou reports became a critical factor when the causes of the riots and, ultimately, the civil war came to be discussed. In the meantime the New Nigerian came out with another issue that set the country talking. An issue with four blank pages, but more about that later. Not until years later did I find myself in a position to state unequivocally the rumours were unsubstantiated. Indeed there were no Cotonou reports.

“How am I so sure? Because the man who created and used his skill and professional expertise to spread the rumour told me so. ‘It was fiction, put out by us, nothing more. There were no riots, no deaths in Cotonou.’ So declared the former head of the Kaduna monitoring bureau chief, my old friend, John Thorpe.”

Sharp’s encounter with Thorne took place, Sharp said, in 1978 during his visit to the US with his wife to study the latest trend in the kind of newspaper production technology that had been pioneered by the New Nigerian in the late sixties, and also to visit friends. One of them, he said, was Thorpe and his wife, then living in retirement in Florida.

It was during the visit, Sharp said, that his old friend revealed to him for the first time that the main purpose of the Kaduna monitoring station was to bug and monitor important people and institutions in Nigeria, including foreign embassies. And it succeeded in doing so beyond its expectations.

As proof, Thorne, said Sharp, played back a tape for him in which he heard his own voice clearly speaking on the telephone to the late Alhaji Babatunde Jose, then executive chairman of Daily Times, on how he intended to respond to the orders he had received from the military authorities in Lagos, then the nation’s capital, that his newspaper should not publish stories about the Igbo massacre out of fears that it could escalate tensions. Jose had told him he had received the same orders as a result of which, he said, he had had to pulp 50,000 copies of the Sunday Times which had carried the “offending” story.

“I listened to the whole recording in stunned silence,” Sharp said, “recalling every word of (the) conversation 12 years previously in which I told the Daily Times chief that it was my intention to put out a paper that conformed to the letter (of) the Federal Government’s instructions. There would be no reports or comments, no pictures, just four blank pages containing only a simple explanation explaining that we had been forbidden to refer to the editorial content that would otherwise have occupied the blank pages. Babatunde said it was a brave idea and he would consider doing the same.”

The import of Sharp’s story is too obvious to need elaboration. Suffice it to say with friends like Thorpe and his principals who needed any enemies?

Now fast forward to 2005. According to an article entitled “Is Nigeria the Next Iraq?’ in the February 2007 issue of Vanity Fair, the glossy American lifestyle magazine, by its contributing editor, Sebastian Junger, on October 23,2005, a group of “high-ranking” American government officials met in the ballroom of the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington DC., to respond to a simulated crisis in the global oil supply.

DAILY-TRUST

okay why cant each region have their own indigenous police community,that can answer to federal govt if their is any problem can be checkmate by FG,why community policing is very important cos at it is now,the country is battling with terrorism, armed robber, kidnapping, rituals,corruption,now it has come to these; GEJ should consider community policing to monitor locals.

little children,it is the last time:and as you have heard that anti Christ shall come even now their are many anti Christ ;where by we know that it is the last time[b].1st john 2 vs 18[/b]

He even claimed that he is the one that healed kanu nwankwo heart disease and kanu denied it,and he brought Daniel omakachi to nothing he became a supermarket attendance,this is bad

while they promise them liberty,they themselves are the servant of corruption.for whom a man is overcome of the same  is he brought in bondage[b] 2nd peter 2 vs 19[/b]

TB JOSHUA'S EVIL DOINGS FINALLY REVEALED,wonder how god is going to judge this people for leading us in darkness

A young lady known as bisola Johnson reveal the evil manipulation on TB JOSHUA SHOCKING,






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pko3TTXLIM

Synagogue in Aba

Redeemed Israel Community of Nigeria Conference on Nnewi

this is from a rabbi he is my friend just return from Nigeria and got some pix to share


Leadership conference in Port Harcourt Nigeria.

GOOD talk now how is he going to tackle it?

President Goodluck Jonathan is not happy about “reckless spending” by state governors, ministers and other senior government personnel. And, this is official. Last Monday, Nigerians were informed that the Presidency was scheduled to hold a workshop for governors, ministers, directors of ministries, council chairmen and other key government officials to educate them on what amounts to money laundering.

The initiative is said to be a fallout of the president’s unhappiness over the extravagant lifestyle of some key government officials during trips abroad. According to a report in a national newspaper, government will introduce new steps to monitor spending habits of all principal office holders while abroad. The National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Owoeye Aziza, reportedly raised the memo on the new government position and the “compliance workshop” for the top government officials in Abuja.

The memo, as reported in a national daily, said “the purpose of the workshop is to enlighten participants on some salient issues that could have negative effects on the efforts of government at employing economic diplomacy to facilitate development through foreign direct investment. It added that “this is essentially because the attraction of such investment is often predicated on the perception that the nation’s economy is stable and the government sincere and responsible.”

The memo explained further that efforts of the government to improve accountability in governance and reduce extravagance were “inadvertently being hampered by the spending habits and actions of government officials, especially when on overseas trips. The document said this is because of the robust anti-corruption laws of some countries which trigger “red flags in their systems whenever frivolous spending is observed. It said such records are often used in some countries as basis for investment advice to business communities and in taking decisions on visa applications with respect to such officials.

Let’s put this in plainer language. What this memo is saying, when shorn of bureaucratic elegance, is that the way Nigerian senior government officials spend money like rain water while on foreign trips abroad does not portray Nigeria as a serious country, or one needful of, or deserving of aid and investment from more developed countries.
Simply put, the president is miffed by the reckless spending of some top government officials while on foreign trips because the perception of their profligacy by the countries they visit affects Nigeria’s image and our quest for foreign direct investment.

In short, top officials of a country like Nigeria whose leaders are always going abroad for foreign direct investment and other aids and grants should not be seen to be reckless spenders, as this creates the impression that Nigerian leaders are wasteful, reckless and irresponsible. It also suggests that the nation does not really need the foreign aid and investments that Jonathan has been asking for.
The compliance workshop for the top government officials covers many issues such as money laundering, and the anti-bribery and corruption laws of Nigeria, the United Kingdom, United States of America and the European United (EU)

It is good that the president is worried about reckless spending by top government officials, abroad, and has taken steps to educate them on it. But, beyond the poor public image that this reckless spending paints of Nigeria and her leadership class abroad, there are many more important reasons why Jonathan should be worried. He should be very worried about the factors that fuel this profligacy, especially in the face of the growing impoverishment of ordinary Nigerians.

One critical factor that we are all too familiar with is corruption of many members of the leadership class. I mean, top government officials and political appointees who convert public funds to private use. Many of these people find it difficult to separate personal money from public funds, hence their reckless extravagance at public expense.
Even when some of these top government officials may not be stealing public funds, the widening gap between the remuneration of this class of public officials and other categories of workers should be a source of worry to the president.

There is, indeed, a lot to worry about when the leadership class of a country wallows in obscene profligacy and conspicuous consumption at home and abroad in the face of growing dilapidated public infrastructure and poverty of the people. It is needless here reeling out Nigeria’s dismal statistics on child and maternal mortality, life expectancy, out of school children, unemployment, polio, child labour, poor child nutrition and inadequate access to potable water. Anyone with a fair knowledge of Nigeria’s performance in the area of public infrastructure and the annual Human Develop Index cannot fail to wonder how the nation’s leaders feel comfortable happily strutting about while shopping abroad when the people they are supposed to be leading can hardly eat two meals a day.

Jonathan should not only be having sleepless nights about wasteful spending of senior government officials abroad because it is affecting his drive for foreign investments. He should be bothered about wasteful spending everywhere, home and abroad, and its impact on what is available to develop public infrastructure and improve human development in the country.

So much has been written about the jumbo pay of public officers and the poor pay of those on the lower rungs of the job ladder. Beyond this workshop, let the president demonstrate an appreciation of the depth of the problem by implementing the minimum wage structure he approved many months back. Let there be stronger commitment to job creation. Let him lead a campaign against profligacy of the political class and strive to bridge the gap between top government officials and other workers. Let him make his team understand the enormity of the task of national development before them. And let him lead by example. Recent reports of his request for a virement of about 90 billion naira to accommodate several expenses including about 55 million naira for feeding of horses and dogs are not encouraging, at all. Processes and systems should be instituted to curb corruption in public office. Those found guilty of the crime should be punished.

The task of national transformation which President Jonathan promised to take upon himself is not an owambe party. It cannot be achieved with a leadership class given to gallivanting around Europe’s most expensive stores, and raising eyebrows about the irony of a country in search of foreign aid and investments even as its leaders strut the world in opulence like oil Sheiks.



SUN NEWSPAPER

Eko Ile:
You mean she's not a gold digger because her father the former governor was very rich? How rich and how much den dey pay civil servants?

those days their was nothing like accountability,governors those days nobody ask them to account what they did with their state treasury.

Eko Ile:
And she still got dumped for a gold digger,

Disgusting interview anyways,


SMH

mumu how is she a gold digger? talking abt Bianca her dad was former governor of enugu state chief ono.

ikembas death is going to open a lot of things that's how you no great men

battlefield 3 is a wicked game am like it.

TRUTH MUST BE TOLD

I LIKE THE WAY SHE LAY EVERYTHING DOWN NICE ONE

now we can see that these northern people have nothing to offer,all the ill advise they were getting back in the days to keep Nigeria one by all means,it seems like those advice are not coming through anymore even the western world is scared to advise north cos of terrorism.
Now power is now out of their hand they cant think on how to tackle it and gain their former glory burn to rule tactical, that always work for them but not anymore those foreigners that was giving them ill advise have distance themselves from northern cabals.


They took another ill advise to use boko harams to put southerners on-check but it back fired on them,now it is now a big problem in their region chasing even investors away tell me who is the fool here? they think to maneuver people mind all the time is easy? you need real thinkers to do that and northerners in Nigeria don't have that, you see western world have been doing it for yrs b/4 others start noticing it,and still they still find ways to maneuver developing countries indirectly.