₦airaland Forum

namfav:
mbgn should only be for the southern states, it doesn't make sense to have it in the north if our people don't participate , also people born in their states should represent their states, not flock to the north for registration to take advantage of the fact that northerners don't participate

its fair and transparent that way

gbamm

mukina2:
I understand but please just do like i suggested it will work

i missed u

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=699508.msg8593605#msg8593605 date=1309093651]Ny theory: kobo was derived from the yoruba term for penny and hausa term for penny. Naira = Nai from Nigeria, like nai[/b]ja; The 'ra' in nai[b]ra from the yoruba word for buy (ra).

I might as well give you my suggestion, since no one else knows the answer  [/quote]well said

i actually heard this before but i was not really sure but thanks for the confimation.

very sad

a country that can not get bola iga murderers will defiantly not get this man's murderers

A chieftain of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Ben Ihekaire, has been murdered in his country home, Amaebu, Ebenato, Orsu local council area of Imo State. Although the stories surrounding the incident were very sketchy at press time, Saturday Vanguard however gathered that Ihekaire returned to his residence from a political meeting before the hoodlums struck.

Investigations also revealed that the deceased, who owns a paint manufacturing industry, Decocoat, situated along the ever busy Orlu-Ihiala federal highway, was irked that APGA loyalists in Orsu was not appreciative of his sacrifices and contributions to the success of the party in the last general elections.

A villager who spoke to Saturday Vanguard on strict grounds of anonymity confirmed that Ihekaire attended a meeting of APGA loyalists where tempers ran very high as the meeting progressed but could not tell if his death was linked to the disagreement at the meeting.

It was further gathered that “the industrialist turned politician was still ruminating over his experience during the meeting when the hoodlums stormed his residence, shot him and quickly ran away”.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Linus Nwaiwu, a deputy superintendent of police, DSP, said he was yet to be briefed about the incident, pleading that our Correspondent should call back.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/06/apga-chieftain-murdered/

Seun:
It just shows that she's no fool.  The value of the naira is controlled by the CBN & not the Finance Minister.

seun c'mon

[quote author=EzeUche! link=topic=698645.msg8585628#msg8585628 date=1308955374]Who cares? Dollars are the international standard.[/quote]if it was anyother group in nigeria, u will be shouting

rubbish

OAM4J:
You were using insulting words on other posters.

can't remember OAM4J

but correction taken

OAM4J none of my post were ethnocentric

i asked, what Ngozi has done for Nigeria and why she should not be given the credit with OBJ did all the work

is that ethnocentric ?

and i also asked why we celebrate mediocrity instead of preformance, i do not think any of it were ethnocentric

SO NO ONE CAN TELL ME/ US WHAT SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENT MADE BY ZIK

AND YET WE CELEBRATE MEDIOCRITY

WHAT A SHAMEFUL COUNTRY

J12:
Azikiwe did not betray anybody. The University of Nigeria, Nsukka is an indellible achievement of Azikiwe. He aggresively fought for independence, he wasn't tribalistic, he never promoted/encouraged disunity and secessionists. I don't know what other achievements you expected.

so his only achievement for nigeria or his people is to build Nsukka university

he was the not the only one that fought for independence, awolowo fought as well infact ZIK was over rated in that sense

no even igbenedion grand father built a university

so now the question again

WHAT DID NNAMDI ACHIEVE FOR NIGERIA AND HIS PEOPLE

awolowo did a lot for his people that even till today they respect the man

balewa did a lot for us in the north and was also detribalised

what nnamadi achieve apart from building a univerisity

because i can name a lot of failures he achieve while he was alive

Eziachi:
How do we know that the picture is of the persons you mentioned? Have you ever heard about this guy or even know what he looks like until few weeks ago?
Haven't you heard that a picture paints a thousand word?
Every person sees a picture different from another person. Meanwhile you haven't told us what the occassion was as regards the picture.

what do mean how did i know the person in mention

yes the man was known few weeks ago when he was just an editor before being promoted to chief editor

Eziachi read more here

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/sunday-magazine/arts-life/9784-itsekiri-lively-connection.html

i thought like of DK, Eko ile, Ekt-bear etc said Omatseye has nothing to do with tinubu

he is just an editor so why was an editor promoted within 1 week to chief editor and also since he is "just" an editor, why is he dancing with mrs tinubu

i dey laff seriously, day by day this mumu's leaders keep fooling the people they lead

tinubu good work, keep destroying ur people all in the name of power

eko ile, now do ur PR work

Since The Nation is not what most people would call a reliable ‘news’ paper even by Nigeria’s partisan standards and context I do not have a daily habit of it.  However, I was compelled to go and read the original article—Awo family without an Awo by Sam Omatseye—after I came across Mrs H I D Awolowo’s reply published in the Tribune.
Omatseye reportedly does a good [hatchet] job for his famously uncouth paymasters but nothing prepared me for the poison of his unjustified attack on a venerable ninety-six-year old great-grandmother former first lady of the old Western Region, recently bereaved of a daughter.  Mrs Awolowo’s sin apparently is that she does not, assuming in any case that she could, gather her brood to haunt, even when they had no meaningful role to play, the mainly propaganda events thrown up by opportunists and pretenders to the noble cause that her late husband bequeathed.  One would think the jokers had enough political jobbers and area boys to do that.
All through the article, one thing is clear—the pen is Omatseye but the hand is definitely Bolatito Ahmed Tinubu.  Bola Ahmed, with the official surname Tinubu, has just proved the Yoruba saying that noble origin cannot be bought with money.  Even then, the Yoruba are quick to add the complement that being of a noble birth is not as good as self-discipline to re-birth one’s self into a worthy individual.  Bola Tinubu evidently lacks even that.
Adult delinquency is not a virtue and Bola Tinubu, who reportedly once walked out on the Oba of Lagos during a peace-seeking meeting, needs someone, as apparently the young bootlickers and old scroungers that surround him have not, to tell him.
Some institutions are sacred.  Great honour is due some people.  Unlike fear sown through intimidation by thugs and miscreants, such leaders earned their reverence through selfless service to their people.  Despite the cataclysmic changes in political ascendancy in northern Nigeria, nobody including his political opponents has dared to rubbish the well-earned good name and memory of the late Sardauna.  Ditto for Nnamdi Azikiwe in Igboland.  Of course, they did not breed scamps like Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Awolowo’s greatest enemies were the Yoruba political elite.  Many of them started from the Awo camp.  They and others would use Awo’s name and stature, and threats that his victory posed, to harass and arm-twist Awolowo’s reactionary opponents for political appointments and juicy contracts, conveniently abandoning the old man in Ikenne to lick his wounds—until the next election campaign.  Their anti-Awolowo utility, used to devastating effect by the ruling class at the centre, formed and sustained many political careers in the south-west.
If the Yoruba political elite betrayed Awo in his lifetime, the greatest betrayers of Awolowo’s legacy are turning out to be these self-declared rascals of Yoruba politics.  You know a rascally child by their pathological disrespect of sacred values.  In olden days, having become uncontrollable for exasperated parents, they would go and desecrate local shrines in flagrant defiance of revered customs and custodians. Such individuals without exception end badly.
Bola Tinubu might think all it requires for a universal acceptance of his self-coronation as Asiwaju is Mrs Awolowo’s anointing but whether what we are witnessing presently in the south-west is a resurgence of true Awoism is for the studied judgment of the whole world, and the signals so far are negative.  For a start, Bola Tinubu’s current swagger derives mostly from nothing more than the enormous amounts of money he selfishly extorts from the long-suffering people of Lagos State.
It is a tribute to the esteemed Nigerian culture that Tinubu and Omatseye offended by their sacrilegious behaviour, that a woman of Mrs Awolowo’s age and status would respond in the humble and dignified manner that she did.  One can well imagine, with due respect to another respectable leader of Nigerian women, if similar insults been passed on Alhaja Habibatu Mogaji, Tinubu’s adoptive mother, area thugs, in the usual Bola Tinubu motor park tout manner of dealing with opponents, would be unleashed to physically attack and possibly kill the culprit.  Memories of the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi are still very fresh in our minds.
I have one last word for Sam Omatseye.  There is a saying in Yorubaland that whosoever allows his head to be used to crack a coconut usually does not partake of the eating.  I presume the Itsekiri have an equivalent.

http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/news/general/99699-this-is-one-rascality-too-many.html

[img]http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/thumbnail.php?file=Omatseye_1_558557505.jpg&size=article_medium[/img]

a picture of Omatseye and Senator Oluremi Tinubu dancing out of joy

can u image

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=697923.msg8579499#msg8579499 date=1308883500]Stop going to the market to learn

All you'll learn is how to curse someone while sleeping  

If you're fine enough, romance one Yoruba girl into teaching you. How about Eko-Ile's sister, if he doesnt kill you sha? [/quote] a girl from irabiji, u wan make i die

but ileke u can teach me na

[quote author=EzeUche! link=topic=697923.msg8579494#msg8579494 date=1308883378]This is me o! 

You people think I don't know languages?

Just like I shown people I speak Ibibio.[/quote]ok

i would learn yoruba by the end of this year, i promise

and igbo before 2015

[quote author=EzeUche! link=topic=697923.msg8579485#msg8579485 date=1308883266]Fara bale!  

Do you want me to write in Igbo?[/quote]hmmmmm

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=697923.msg8579487#msg8579487 date=1308883305]Dudddeeeeeeee, you are literally in Lagos and you cant find someone to teach you Yoruba?   [/quote]ileke it is not the easy

i am learning some words but i am getting there

[quote author=EzeUche! link=topic=697923.msg8579481#msg8579481 date=1308883106]Se nko ti mo so ye e?  [/quote]guy speak english

i no understand

ezeuche understands yoruba

how did u do it so fast

[quote author=EzeUche! link=topic=697923.msg8579468#msg8579468 date=1308882674]Kuroni'waju mi!  [/quote] whats that

is the yoruba

namesake, tell me the secret na

[quote author=EzeUche! link=topic=697923.msg8579444#msg8579444 date=1308882157]I have a Yoruba professor who is my mentor.  

Se mole gba iwe ateranse re?  [/quote]u too done learn yoruba

how did u do it

BEFORE the April polls, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, was seen and perceived as a regional party based in the Southwest zone and built around the former governor of Lagos State and leader of the party, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Such perception could be justified, considering that apart from Tinubu, the National Chairman of the party since its formation has been Chief Bisi Akande, the former governor of Osun State.

Some aggrieved members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, across the country hurriedly joined the party as the last resort before the April general elections.

Such abrupt defections of PDP members to the party could not convince Nigerians that the party was not a regional party, even when personalities like former governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chris Ngige, former National Chairman of PDP, Chief Audu Ogbe and others outside Southwest zone were founding and still active members of the party today.

But, while some of the defectors won their elections on the party platform, others did not. What is certain now is that after the inauguration of the seventh National Assembly recently, the party is expected to produce the Senate Minority Leader and Senate Chief Whip having emerged the major opposition party in the country today.

But the question that had agitated the minds of many Nigerians was: Who would emerge the Senate Minority Leader on the party platform, with the capacity to rally other members to provide focused leadership and checkmate PDP excesses in the Senate.

There are arguments that the new Senate standing rules barred first term senators from occupying any principal offices. The rules sounded hypocritical, considering that Senator Kabiyu Gaya, a first term senator from Kano State in 2007 held the principal position of Senate Minority Leader in the sixth National Assembly.

So Senate rules cannot supersede the Constitution of the country or party’s decision. It is the sole responsibility of the party to decide who will occupy the positions they are entitled to in the Senate. So the much talk about Senate rules is a political gimmick that has out-served its purpose since David Mark has been re-elected as Senate President.

With the key national leaders of ACN and majority of the elected members in the National Assembly from the Southwest zone, it is expected that the choice of Senate minority leader from the zone will amount to political suicide and at the same time affirm the general belief that the party is truly a regional, and not a national party as their leaders would want people to believe.

But in the face of this obvious fact and glaring challenges, the true nationalistic claim of the party might be put to test on their choice of the Senate Minority Leader and other positions outside the Southwest zone.

In the last April poll, senators that were elected on the party platform outside Southwest zone included former governor of Anambra State and founding member of the party, Dr. Ngige, former governor of Benue State, Chief George Akume, defected Senator Ehigie Uzamere representing Edo South district and his counterpart from Edo North district, Chief Domingo Obende.

Among them, it is obvious that Ngige ranks higher, but it appears some domineering elements in the party who are not comfortable with Ngige’s rising political profile are out to frustrate his emergence as the Minority Leader in the Senate by imposing Senator George Akume on the party members without adequate consultation.

Considering Ngige’s political antecedents and enormous contributions in building and giving the party a national outlook since its formation in 2006, the party leadership has no choice than to endorse him for the position. Anything contrary will portray the party in a bad light, and might create disunity that may lead the party to doom ahead 2015, especially in Southeast zone.

If it is true that few elements in the party had decided to force Akume on the party as the minority leader, on what basis did they arrive at such decision? What was Akume’s contribution to the party before now?

If true, the choice of Akume has shown that the party has no regard or reward for party loyalty at all. It seems that the trio of Tinubu, Akande and Lai Mohammed have forgotten that ACN is not a personal estate they can run at their whims and caprices.

Mr. GBOYEGA ADEYEMI, a public affairs analyst, wrote from Abuja.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/06/acn-ngige-and-the-senate-minority-leadership/

OAM4J:
Be careful the thunder doesn't strike you and you dont get burnt in the fire. Be advised Alhaji; dont walk on the path that even angels dread to walk. nuff said.

OAM4J u no kill me oooo

so u dey protect ur sweet sweet potato

i beg take care of Missy B or else , ,,.,

am sure u understand

Nayah:
Lol my brothers the thing is sometimes people say I look like West Indies in France, in Cameroon they say I look like a Nothern girl like you've just done and some say Igbo girl quite funny.

Anyway never hear about Kanuri before thanks I'll check to inform about them, are you a Kanuri?

cool

yes i am half igbo half kanuri

u pretty though, where do u stay