₦airaland Forum

odumchi:
I have states my point and allknow it's the truth. Northern Nigeria cannot support a large sedentary agricultural population other than the wild grasses that grow there.

Rice is produced in the patties of the south, and rove is Nigerias sustenance. The North cannot support a large population due to limitations on cattle, land, and again Fertility.  
And remember rice will always feed more than sorghum. And another thing is most of those Maps that you showed are geographically outdated. Desertification Is rapidly approaching the North, even though it lies on the Sahel.

By raising the hands of three senatorial candidates, two of who were not the ones recognized by INEC and the court, the presidential candidate of Congress of Progressive Change(CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari, said he had not done anything outside of the electoral act.Buhari was speaking during an interview with journalists in his home in Daura town at the weekend.

Just before rounding -off his presidential campaign rally in his hometown , General Buhari at the podium raised the hands of the senatorial flag bearers of the party, Senator Abu Ibrahim (Funtua,Katsina South), Hadi Sirika(Daura, Katsina North) and Abubakar Saddiq Yar’adua (Katsina Central) constituencies.

Hadi Sirika and Sadiq Yaradua are not among the candidates recognized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Abuja court ruling which entertained the matter.

Buhari defended himself by saying: “It is the party that sent candidates to INEC, and INEC does not impose candidates on any party.That is why I raised only the hands of the senatorial candidates which our party sent to INEC and didn’t raise the hands of any gubernatorial candidate in Katsina and Kano because of the pending court case between them, when the court has decided then elections can be held.”

Buhari gave example of his own self where he said that between 2003 to December 2008, he had spent about 15 months in court, and his case divided the Supreme Court into two at the height of the legal tussle.

http://www.leadershipeditors.com/ns/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28393:i-havent-done-anything-outside-the-electoral-act--buhari&catid=51:cover-stories&Itemid=142

odumchi:
This is a clearly nonsense post. My friend have you ever been to the North or the "Ugwu Hausa"?
The North Is a savannah grassland that is barren except for small shrubs. Why do you think Hausa and Fulani men wrap themselves in turban-like clothing inorder to protect themselves from the sand storms and dry wind? Also to correct you, most of the Hausa population in Niger, Republic exist directly above Katsina State Nigeria or into easten Niger.

This type of climate cannot support extensive agriculture, and agriculture leads into large populations. This climate only supports the grazing of herd animals such as goats, cows and sheep, thus making the proper population figure Igbo>Yoruba>Hausa.

The savannah zone's three categories are divided into mm' Guinean forest-savanna mosaic, made up of plains of tall grass which are interrupted by trees, the most common across the country; Sudan savannah, similar but with shorter grasses and shorter trees; and Sahel savannah patches of grass and sand, found in the northeast

The kind of noise that got us Jega is the same kind of noise that wants to return Buhari, integrity, uprightness, incorruptibility and the beat goes on.

odumchi:
Let's use some common sense, the north is mostly desert and a dry savannah, how can such a barren region have a greater population than the fertile, arable south?

Both annual and seasonal floods have made the Niger River basin extremely fertile, facilitating extensive farming activities.

The Kaduna River is a tributary of the Niger River which flows for 550 kilometres through Nigeria. It got its name from the crocodiles that lived in the river and surrounding area. Kaduna in the native dialect, Hausa, was the word for "crocodiles"

Muhammadu Buhari is an oligarch who does not believe in equality before the law. The way he jailed Lateef Jakande, Jim Nwobodo, Ambrose Ali, Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Ayo Ojewumi on cases that had no foundation and allowed Awwal Ibrahim, the then Niger State governor, who was arrested in Heathrow Airport in London with 14 million pounds sterling and several millions of Niara and dollars to be under house arrest is enough evidence.

He also allowed Shehu Kangiwa, Sokoto State Governor who conducted and supervised the famous Bakolori Massacre of poor peasant farmers whose land were appropriated without compesation to remain under house arrest.

Sweetnecta:
30 I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened

verse 31 says heavens and earth will pass away, but his word will not pass away. Why is the above not fulfilled yet, or has it? If if has, why are the christians waiting for a 'second coming"? Somtinrung here.

GenBuhari:
you are wrong Power was stable during Buhari's reign

Kobojunkie:
As expected . . . moving on now . . . .

Kobojunkie:
Try this
http://www.leadershipeditors.com/ns/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26505:no-deal-with-ibb-buhari&catid=51:cover-stories&Itemid=101

Kobojunkie:
But this happens to be the very problem with what Ribadu is offering us now. Change Backed by the same old corrupt leaders we are desperately trying to get away from!!
Precisely and this is exactly what Ribadu is not offering us . . . No principled man will come with backing from the likes of Tinubu or IBB. I initially brushed off the IBB connection until I actually read that Ribadu did go to him. What in the world was that for?

efisher:
She carefully deleted that part from the quote. I knew she was going to try taking advantage of it. BUSTED 

nateevs:
Can I ask alethia to please explain how it is that we are "fortunate" that elections into the Legislative arm of Government ended in a disaster?

It is fortunate (lucky) that only the parliamentary elections were so affected.

BetaThings:
You are parroting 21 century sentiments here. BTW how many civilians do Americans kill in Afghanistan. How many generals have lost their jobs. So the security agents that razed Odi and threatened the senate delegation to the place led by Okadigbo did not exceed their remit?

ogajim:
Hidden in plain sight in a VERY popular art form!

mrjingles:
my people perish for lack of knowledge. Excuse me I called them BOOKS they are not novels or mills and boom.

Kobojunkie:
CookBook for the Majorly MindF*cked

Kobojunkie:
Why didn't you add David Brown's  "The Holy Grail"   to the list  . . .  

Sun of god:
Of course.
The flip side to the coin is if Buhari wins.
If Ibori were to levy allegations of corruption against GEJ with Buhari in power, how many hours before Mr and Mrs GEJ end up in prison?
Either way it seems 'dark forces' felt its best he beats this.

Mai Suya:
I wonder if it were Buhari that had made the same slip, would you have been this passionate in your defense of him?

Of course not. That is why you are a PDP man. YOUR  WORDS: 'there in no rest for the wicked" AMEN!!!!! 

Sun of god:
In all likelyhood GEJ will be President for at least the next 4 years.

mrjingles:
I don VEX! HOW IN THE NAME OF GOD CAN ANYBODY ANY SANE PERSON CLAIM "THERE WAS NO BLACKOUT IN 1983" "POWER WAS NOT A PROBLEM IN 1983" Whoever claims that must have been born in 1988 or is totally MAD! How many of these "enlightened posters"  were actually ALIVE during that period? Please ask your parents when these words became popular in Nigeria:

Excuse my caps but I am seriously P.I.SSE.D OFF when people who did not go to school when there was NO INTERNET pound their keyboards, post useless links and try to pontificate on matters they neither understand nor can properly analyse. I don't support GEJ or BB or NWA!(una know them?) If want to campaign for BB GEJ or RPG go ahead but please DO NOT EVEN TRY TO ATTEMPT TO VENTURE TO REWRITE HISTORY AND "ANALYSE" THINGS YOU DONT KNOW DIDDLY SQUAT ABOUT.

ps: if ANYBODY AS ME FOR LINK ABOUT THE ABOVE U GO RECEIVE SLAP! I LIVED THROUGH IT

Sun of god:
Ibori would have turned into a 'Supergrass' in the UK to recieve less harsh treatment.

kokoA:
Mr man, nobody is being hypocritical here. Mr. President said we are lucky this is coming up during the parliamentary election and not election into the executive arm of government, and you call that "slip of tongue"? There is everything wrong with that statement. Inasmuch as nobody is perfect, I think GEJ's gaffes are becoming embarrassing. The people around him are suppose to help him out with this not "licking his butt" for favors. If you don't see anything wrong with this then you are not wishing our president well.

BetaThings:
While Buhari was a GOC, he firmly repelled the invasion of a foreign force

BetaThings:
Buhari took over because of economic hardship overlaid with a massively rigged election

PRESIDENT SHAGARI IS OVERTHROWN: SPEECH OF BRIGADIER SANI ABACHA, DECEMBER 1, 1984 – RETURN OF MILITARY RULE

Fellow countrymen and women, I, Brigadier Sani Abacha, of the Nigerian army address you this morning on behalf of the Nigerian armed forces.

You are all living witnesses to the great economic predicament and uncertainty, which an inept and corrupt leadership has imposed on our beloved nation for the past four years. I am referring to the harsh, intolerable conditions under which we are now living. Our economy has been hopelessly mismanaged. We have become a debtor and beggar nation. There is inadequacy of food at reasonable prices for our people who are now fed up with endless announcements of importation of foodstuffs. Health services are in shambles as our hospitals are reduced to mere consulting clinics without drugs, water and equipment. Our educational system is deteriorating at an alarming rate. Unemployment figures including the undergraduates have reached embarrassing and unacceptable proportions. In some states, workers are being owed salary arrears of eight to twelve months and in others there are threats of salary cuts.

Yet our leaders revel in squandermania, corruption and indiscipline, and continue to proliferate public appointments in complete disregard of our stark economic realities. After due consultations over these deplorable conditions, I and my colleagues in the armed forces have in the discharge of our national role as promoters and protectors of our national interest decided to effect a change in the leadership of the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and form a Federal Military Government. This task has just been completed.

The Federal Military Government hereby decrees the suspension of the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1979 relating to all elective and appointive offices and representative institutions including the office of the President, state governors, federal and state executive councils, special advisers, special assistants, the establishment of the National Assembly and the Houses of Assembly including the formation of political parties. Accordingly, Alhaji Shehu Usman Shagari ceases forthwith to be the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria . All the incumbents of the above named offices shall, if they have not already done so, vacate their formal official residences, surrender all government property in their possession and report to the nearest police station in their constituencies within seven days. The clerk of the National Assembly, the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, within two weeks, render account of all the properties of the National Assembly. All the political parties are banned; the bank account of FEDECO and all the political parties are frozen with immediate effect.

All foreigners living in any part of the country are assured of their safety and will be adequately protected. Henceforth, workers not on essential duties are advised to keep off the streets. All categories of workers on essential duties will, however, report at their places of work immediately. With effect from today, a dusk to dawn curfew will be imposed between 7pm and 6am each day until further notice. All airways flights have been suspended forthwith and all airports, seaports, and border posts closed. External communications have been cut. The Customs and Excise, Immigration and the Police will maintain vigilance and ensure watertight security at the borders. The area administrators or commanders will have themselves to blame if any of the wanted people escape.

Fellow countrymen and women, the change in government has been a bloodless and painstaking operation and we do not want anyone to lose his or her life. People are warned in their own interest to be law abiding and to give the Federal Military Government maximum cooperation. Anyone caught disturbing public order will be summarily dealt with. For avoidance of doubt, you are forewarned that we shall not hesitate to declare martial law in any area or state of the federation in which disturbances occur. Fellow countrymen and women and comrades at arms, I will like to assure you that the Armed Forces of Nigeria is ready to lay its life for our dear nation but not for the present irresponsible leadership of the past civilian administration. You are to await further announcements. Good morning.