₦airaland Forum

president Jonathan i think he was being sentimental on gadaffi may be because of what gadaffi said a year ago that nigeria should divide b/w Muslim north and christian south, supporting the rebels is not diplomatic at all,

i love enugu beautiful environment

Good that people are finally waken up one Nigeria might sound great but it has cost us a lot of lives and instability.Poor people are suffering in that country called Nigeria, people get killed by riots or bombs or road accidents minor sickness i mean is a lot, the country need to divide peacefully so that we can have peace for a very long time

adamaw2tuf:
G[b]OOD FELLOW COME TO THE NORTH[/b] AND OBTAIN A PERMISION FROM US THAT WILL ALLOW YOU AND YOUR TOWNS MEN AND WOMEN TO HAVE SHARE THE OIL BUSINESS BUT ON THE CONDITION THAT YOU WILL NEVER QUESTION THE WAY IN WHICH WE EXECUTE THE INCOME UNDERSTAND AND NEVER TRY TO PLAY CLEVER GAME THAT YOU WANT TO A HERO ORDER WISE YOU HAVE PLENTY OF PROBLEMS UNDERSTAND?

and get bombed from BH/ almajiris is a no no no

tlops:
what about the 50 suspect arrested?

those ones na malams wey dey sell suya for gate

Nayah:
you scared me lol no I'm joking just read my previous comment and I do agree with you

Nayah:
ak47mann lol

sweety am a good boy u no, but i turn bad wen my girl disrespect me

Oboy sometimes girls will insult you if are too nice to them i no that already, but girls love bad boys like me who beat them at any provocation you cant spend my money and diss me or don't have respect for me,you go hear am

alex_101:
These ngbatis are bunch of shameless goons. They stated that they don't want to be in mainstream politics anymore as they recoiled back to their regional enclave, only for them to change mouth that they want to be in mainstream again , what a shame. I guess after recoiling back to their pathetic region, they discovered that their tin god tinubu has cornered all the money to himself alone, hence the "about-turn" syndrome that the yorubus are known for was activated.
 
Talk about being neither here nor there,,,like being slippery like catfish, you can never get a firm grip on the yorubas in terms of where they stand on any issue.

WORD

supoade:
I guess Madam Goodluck Jona is too busy with some other things in Aso rock. For those of you who voted for jona and not PDP, over to you.

This country called Nigeria is too much for JONA the fisherman to preside over. SIMPLE!

-UN bombing, BokoHaram
-Jos Crisis ,  Boko Haram
-Police HQ bombing
-Oct 1st bombing
-NO electricity
-No good Roads
-No employments
-Ecological Issue
and many many many more,

JONA is busy receiving Guests at Aso rock, making empty talks, sacking noone in the security circle,,

JONA can be best described as GUTLESS PRESIDENT WITH NO VISION, a confused leader with no direction.

The Earlier he wakes up from Mr FirstLady 's wrapper, the Better for him and the country.

mr Jonathan is not the problem in Nigeria he meet it their and he will try his best, ACN will not do better too look at tinumbu buying planes and oil companies with lagos money why didn't he fix the problem a bit when he was  in power by now it wont be that bad

SO WHY DID ABIANS VOTED THEM BACK

Yoruba rise up, tell almajiris to stop slaughtering you people NA2DAY

^^ i tell ya

OkparaIgbo:
No body should respond to this eeidiot called walala or whatever his called until he has woken up, gotten out of his bed(lazy Yoruba)  and gone to read the nigerian political seats and regional distributions,  and come back to apologize for his moronic and ignorant posts here,  and restate who is crying marginalization now and who doesnt have a seat in the top political base in Nigeria now

hahahahahahaahahahaaaaa chie do you mind that mumu wisker i bet you he go dont carry saliva spit all over him screen by now this one na vexoooo

ypad:
This goes to show how greedy some tribe can be. I think the major problem Nigeria is facing is from a particular tribe. How on earth would yoruba elders demand for the dissolve of NDDC. when we all know that the FG generate almost 90% of her income from ND. They should have suggested ways to improve the commission and to scrap/delete it.

An elder (Tinubo) in the Yoruba race sold their right for a penny of which they were partakers and now they want it back, is it possible?

When OBJ was president, were all roads in the SW not bad? how many did he re-construct?

If not for the respect I have for elders, I would have said SW elders are useless, good for nothing animal with the brain of maggot, shameless beggars who sold MKO for 25Kobo.

musiwa abeg when it come to anambra state don't bring ur nonsense here pls

Abagworo:
Please do not type ignorantly.I coincidentally happen to have links with both divides.Stay on your lane or learn before you spew out.Ikwerres are Igbos that recently developed distinct identity while Anioma is not a kingdom but a group of people with different traditions of origin but metamorphorsed to an Igbo identity.I personally would not want Agbor and co as part of Anioma because a lot of them have identity crisis.

i have noticed the same i think is the fear Nigeria put in them during the war they don't no were to go left or right very sad lost souls

Salami is out ACN ODUAS ARE CRYING THEY SHOULD NOT BRING IGBOS IN THERE YEYE CRY ABEG let them handle their business

bennyraz:
[color=#990000][/color] all of una no get sense,  Most of Your skulls are empty!! Why bring up tribal war on nairaland? Why such hatred? Most of you insulting yoruba people have one point or the other stayed in the South West before precisely LAGOS So why the beefing? Igbo's without common sense hate yorubas while those that can read between the lines embrace reality and wisdom. If igbos were asked to produce a nominee for the post of president, all igbos will come out to contest because no one will step down for each other ''it shows their greediness'' that's why it has been difficult for them to clinch a high political post in Nigeria. Learned igbos don't act the way igbos on nairaland act,  So stop insulting other tribes and focus on how to get your share from the national cake by canvassing for it,  We should all come out to fight for True federalism for this Country. The power at the center should be dissolved. Since 1960, has the government provided constant power? Has the government provided good road, water, health care? NO. Yet now, the Government wants to start collecting unneccesary tax from us,  Have they provided social amenities? No. Those are what we should fight for, not insulting one tribe or the other,  No jobs, no power, no road,  Now we have Boko haram. I think moderators of nairaland should kick out people whose comments are way too childish and tribalistic because the outside world is reading and watching.

so why are you people crying marginalization then? slow Bottom muderphuker so SW assassinating there politicians and selling their own brothers ABIOLA etc are going to say that they are sophisticated or they are clever in politics and not greedy? so why all these things keep happening in your region

Wonder why the state govt start paying their teachers some good salaries and put law that they are not allow to beat their students no matter what the poor kids do, dont take your frustration on the kids teacher need to be lucked up if she touch my daughter like that i swear that will be the end of her i will blind her two eyes she cant cause pain to the child parents and get away with it

Blessing Okaeben, a 10-year-old pupil of Okhoro Primary school, Benin, in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, was in her mathematics class on 16 June 2011 when tragedy befell her. Her class teacher, Mrs. Mercy Monday, beat her blue and black until she lost her right eye.




She narrated that the teacher descended on her after she failed a Mathematics test. First, the teacher used a cane on her and after it turned to shreds, she beat her with a bunch of broomsticks, hitting her on the head, face and other parts of the body. As the beating went on, the woman kept calling her a witch, who was responsible for all the ills in the school.

In the process, she sustained injury in the right eye. In fact, the organ started oozing a watery substance!

The second day, the victim’s mother reported the matter to the school authorities, which ordered the teacher to take the student to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, where a broken piece of broomstick was removed from her injured eye. The teacher paid for the treatment.

However, the girl’s condition got worse the following day and the teacher was asked to return the victim to the hospital. And when she called upon to foot the bill, she refused, saying she was pregnant with her own child, so cannot be spending money treating another child. Since there was no medical help forthcoming from the teacher or the school, the girl lost use of the injured eye.

Consequently, the pupil’s parent consulted a lawyer, Mr.Dele Igbinedion, who has written a letter to Governor Adams Oshiomhole, asking for N100 million compensation for the girl and a notice of intention to institute legal proceeding against the Edo State Government.

Igbinedion averred that the money is required for medical intervention in Europe or the United States of America – to either reverse the deterioration in the other eye or undertake specialised iris transplant on the affected one. He added that such intervention must be done with all urgency.

The mother of the pupil, Mrs Faith Okaeben, was in tears as she narrated her ordeal. She appealed to the Comrade Governor to assist them in restoring her daughter’s eye.

On a visit to Okhoro Primary School, neither Mrs. Monday nor the head teacher granted TheNEWS audience.





AIT NEWS

Assassination from williams bola ige kudirat etc etc many more

oshimili state why oshimili state

u cant take the lion down

i wonder were in anambra state,were the state map indicate were orimili state will start from

ONITSHA-The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has reiterated its demand for the creation of Orimili state out of the present Anambra state.

At a press briefing by the Ohanaeze committee on state creation headed by the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe, the group said the demand for the new state was to ensure equity, justice and fair play in the south east zone of the country.

Igwe Achebe who spoke at the Women Development Centre, Awka, said it was only the South East that had five states while other geo-political zones had six states each.

He said: “ The six zones that make up Nigeria should be equalised in the number of constituent states. North West has seven states while the rest have six excluding South East with five states only. This is our case for zonal equity,

”Within the south east itself, the history of state creation in Nigeria shows that since 1991 when Anambra State was created with Enugu, Abia and Imo states, Anambra has not benefited from any further state creation exercise. In the 1996 state creation exercise, Enugu and Abia contributed one senatorial district each to make up Ebonyi State leaving Anambra state unaltered.”

The monarch reasoned that the discriminatory and inequitable implications of the structural imbalance had adverse effect on the South East in its entitlements to federal, ministerial, and other appointments, its share on quota basis of judicial, military and civil service.

According to him, the structural disability of the South East seemed a punitive after shock of the civil war, insisting that the region should be given a sixth state as an equitable gesture made without prejudice to any other demands for additional states to be created in the country



THE VANGUARD NEWSPAPER

The UN decision to more serious cases to South Africa for treatment is a sad reflection of the poor state of health care in Nigeria. I wonder what would have become of these victims had they been employees of an average Nigeria organisation.

NIGERIA and some senior officials of the United Nations (UN) yesterday intensified efforts to save the lives of victims of last Friday’s terror attack on the UN House where 23 people have been confirmed dead and over 60 others wounded.
Health Minister, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu and the head of the UN team dispatched to Nigeria immediately after the incident, Asha-Rose Migiro, said the casualty figure is now 23.
Migro also said “there is security breach in Nigeria” and hinted that the UN would soon begin the probe of the incident. During her visit to the National Hospital, Abuja, medical teams were seen making frantic arrangements to evacuate four of the seriously wounded to South Africa.

The victims included a female and a male personnel of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). They were expected to leave in an air ambulance from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
She said Kenya, Cote d’Ivoire and Nigeria are among countries that lost their citizens in the blast. .
Survivors of the blast also spoke with The Guardian on their escape. The World Health Organistion (WHO) Country Director, Dr. David Okello said he escaped death by going for the commissioning of two mobile clinics donated by a Korean firm, Hyundai to the Abuja Hospital in Gwagwalada.
He said it was on his way to the event that he received a call informing him of the blast.

The Country Director of UNICEF, Dr. Suomi Sakai, said she was in the building when the explosion occurred but was lucky to have survived it. An official of UNICEF simply identified as Ahmed has been confirmed to be among the dead.
She told journalists yesterday in Abuja that she is on ground to “attend to the various issues that would arise. I am impressed with the treatment of the victims so far, but if there is need for them to get further treatment outside Nigeria, we will do that.
“We got a thorough briefing from the government and the medical team here of what is happening. We see that a lot of energy has gone into addressing this crisis. This tragedy is about people, about community and it has also affected a wide range of people that are working with the UN…we know they have families and dependants. This tragedy has affected their lives and it will never be the same. This attack is on all of us, as a people as a community,” she said.

Chukwu commended the response from the rescue teams for being proactive. “The response has been excellent. If this is what we mean by transformation, I think our response has really been transformed. All sides, all the different groups were there to rescue the victims.”
Migiro, who is UN Deputy Secretary-General, said the death toll had risen to 23 as against the initial 18 given by the police.

And when he received Migro yesterday at Aso Villa, President Goodluck Jonathan said Nigeria would help to rebuild the UN House destroyed by the bomb blast.
Jonathan said the Federal Government would offer temporary accommodation to the world body to enable it “continue with the good humanitarian work you have been doing.”

The President expressed condolence to the UN family for the sad loss of lives in the incident and pledged to assist it in the immediate evacuation of the dead to their countries and the wounded for medical treatment.
He thanked Nigerians and foreign nationals, who participated in the rescue operations and other efforts to bring relief to those affected by the “condemnable act of destruction of life and property.”

Earlier, Migiro said she was in Nigeria to assess the situation, adding that this “condemnable act would not deter us from doing our work.”
She requested for Nigeria’s assistance to quickly evacuate the dead and injured, and thanked Jonathan for offering to assist in the reconstruction of the UN House and provision of temporary accommodation to enable the UN continue its work in Nigeria.
Migro said other top-level UN officials would remain in Nigeria to carry out a thorough assessment and examination of the whole building and advice the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accordingly.

After the meeting, she later told journalists that “we have discussed the question of the terrorism bombing that happened at the UN facilities here. We have brought our appreciation to Mr. President and the people of Nigeria for the quick response that we got from the government, from the rescue team and also we shared our willingness to continue the work we have been doing, that our people have just paid the ultimate prize for and we also look forward to also seeing how we address some of the concerns that must have come up as a result of the attack.”

Asked how the bombing may affect UN operations in Nigeria, Migro replied: “We will never be deterred. We believe in global peace. We believe in global security. We believe in development. And here in Nigeria, the people are working hard to improve their lives and the UN is here for that. And you should also remember that this attack is a on communities. It is an attack on families. It is not all about the UN. So, we will never be deterred. We will move on and the members of staff are ready to do that and the government is also ready to help us to continue to do our business in Nigeria and in the world.”

On stepping up security at UN facilities, Migiro said the UN is currently doing a thorough assessment of what happened and how it happened and how we should strengthen whatever measures we have that are of security nature.”
Present at the talks were the National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru and Minister of State for FCT, Mrs. Olajumoke Akinjide.
Meanwhile, security has been tightened at most public buildings in Abuja as palpable panic gripped other international and sub-regional agencies, which have buildings in the nation’s capital.

Some operatives told the Guardian yesterday that fresh security concerns in Abuja come from the growing number of slum settlements in the FCT, which have made it difficult to monitor movements and place basic tabs on who lives in the area.
After the last June bomb blast at the Nigeria Police headquarters, the authorities introduced stop and search operations in the nation’s capital.
A senior security official told The Guardian yesterday that “the bombers are quite able to predict our methods and operations. They seem a step ahead of us. There must be bomb cells in Abuja or in surrounding communities but these are slums. We do not have the capacity to comb these areas. We are concentrating in hotels and public places. We have not penetrated their cells. A lot of unplanned and squalor settlements are now everywhere in Abuja,” he added.

Although no reason has been given, UN operations in Abuja are being moved from one hotel to the other. Its communications, administration and support officials, who are still without Internet services were seen in Sheraton Hotel on Saturday and at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel yesterday.
The UN Acting Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, Dr. Agathe Lawson, had earlier told The Guardian that a committee had been set up to give daily briefings. “As you can see, we need to do first thing first. I cannot say anything now. I am only talking to people who have come here for condolences and relevant government officials,” the sullen United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) official added.

The UN has since fingered a security breach in the way the bombing was carried out. Already, its security chief, Gregory Starr, has inspected the building.
The suicide “e bomber” beat security at the structure by going through the exit gate usually opened for top UN officials, who drive in through the inlet gate. All other members of staff park their vehicles at the expansive twin parking lot in front of the UN House to the exclusion of visitors.
Migiro, a Tanzanian, at the destroyed UN building, hinted that there would be an investigation of what she called “security breach” in Nigeria.
She said it was “a shocking incident, an attack on global peace and communities.
“I have looked at the ripped-up gate. It is amazing how this happened and we are grappling with that, now - an investigation is underway - We will see what we have to do better,” she added

A UN official on Migiro’s team, said at the hospital where some of the victims were being treated that the death toll had risen to 23 but independent sources said it was 26



THE GUARDIAN