₦airaland Forum

Tallesty1:
Make unah chilax.

Buhari will take care of everything when he comes back supercharged with all the new body languages he acquired in Iran and is currently learning at Malta.

#Better Days Ahead

Splashme:
The first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, on Tuesday, said that the cancellation of the Lagos metroline project in 1985 was a major mistake and disservice to many Nigerians.

Jakande spoke in Lagos during the launch of a book which chronicled his life in politics and journalism.

The book, entitled, ‘Jakande: Leadership in Action’ is written by Dr. Bola Olaosebikan, who told the audience at the event that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was not responsible for the cancellation of the project.

Jakande said, “Reflecting on the metroline project, I think it is a major disservice to many Nigerians. Imagine how many people would have benefitted. It would have made life easier and changed the face of transport in Lagos. Whoever cancelled it or gave the advice towards its cancellation didn’t do right.”

The former governor asked Nigerians not to vote for unserious leaders in the coming polls, saying the elections presented Nigerians with a good opportunity that should not be squandered.

Expressing the hope that Nigeria would soon overcome its developmental challenges, Jakande said hope would be actualised faster if credible people emerged as leaders in the next dispensation.

He said, “This book comes at a very auspicious time in Nigeria’s history as we need leaders who can act. We need leaders who would not compromise the standards of good governance. God has blessed this nation the most in Africa, although we have not reached where we should be; with the right leaders, Nigeria would overcome its challenges.”


http://www.punchng.com/news/cancelling-metroline-a-major-mistake-jakande/

loomer:
A national conference that they will definitely frustrate and at the end it will just be another means of enriching some selfish people.

thatsincerechic:
Amaka and i became best friends, we were growing stronger in understanding each other and should I say we became friends because there were mutual benefits. She had a roof and a bed to offer me and I helped her academically and i was indirectly helping myself because the more often I explained topics to her, the better I understood them. It became a ritual that I wrote assignments on every course twice, one for myself and one for Amaka and in the long run I had a understanding of the courses and i was able to explain them from different perspectives .
At first, it felt like a burden to read different textbooks, searched the Internet for information, materials and write our assignments differently so it would not seem like they were from the same writer. I made sure I wrote them from different points of view, included different quotes and different references where needed....

Joejonah:
For more lies... .. Text APC to 419.

tafrica:
Following Elrufai's claim that GEJ spent billions on independene day celebration, a civic tech organisation called BudgIT Nigeria wrote to SGF office to inquire about the truth of ElRufai's allegation. Here is the official response from SGF office as posted by @BudgITng.

Have your say about El-Rufai and propaganda in our polity especially by the ruling party. How do they earn our trust when they feed us with lies everyday.
This is elrufai's Oct1 post about the allegation.


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TimothyNkenu:
The APC is full of people who are experts at propaganda.

Lai Mohammed being the leader of course.

ShowYourCertificate:
Really? A whole local government area under Boko Haram territory?

I had expected that the "people's general" would have crushed the boko haram terrorists by now. It's well.

Firefire:
I am really worried about the increasing death toll...

Buhari said: “If you elect me as the President of Nigeria on February 14 (now March 28), I am assuring you that our government will chase Boko Haram out of Nigeria within two months because it is the responsibility of any reasonable government to secure the lives and property of its citizens.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/polls-campaign-promises-great-expectations/

amtaken:
So many bitter folks on Nairaland.

Many of them don't wanna hear about other people's success.

This is witchcraft at it's highest level.


Y'all need deliverance.


Oprah has shared brand new car keys to her show attendees.

What's wrong with y'all.

dollarathe:
I understand ur message, I mean d pix says " do u want this man to be ur ...." that's why I said d pix av outlived its usefulness because election had gone. I don't mean ur message is bad ehn

g4everybody:
People like you are the problem we have in this country, not necessarily Buhari, someone whose brain has been removed and programmed to defend failure with other zombie followers

dollarathe:
he s d gov already, this caricature has outlive its usefulness. just saying !

dokiOloye:
If to say na Buhari make d statement,he for say na Jonathan cause am.
I am sure that if U ask Buhari why he is still unable to produce his non existent certificate,he will say it Jonathan or PDP.
And d funny thing is that his robots will swallow that hook,line and sinker.

ikechukwu354:
APC IS A SCAM

naija2dabone:
Dear Dr Goodluck Jonathan.
Sir, while you have gone.
1.) Those who accused you of cluelessnesss are today taking selfies at the Auto plants and with Made in Nigeria vehicles a dividend of your auto policy.
2.) Those who insulted you and insisted that the Petroleum subsidy program was a scam just approved a 0.5 Trillion naira subsidy scam payment.
3.) The Professor who claimed your successor will definitely bring fuel pump to = N40 have suddenly gone deaf and dumb while fuel prize is currently cruising around 600 naira in some cities.
4.) Those who claimed you were heading to Chad to plan more attacks on us were the first to visit Chad after you left.
5.) Your agricultural policies which yielded a lot of dividend is the next achievement your adversaries are planning to appropriate to themselves.
6.) When the Treasury Single Account was been hailed as a super invention they concealed your name and in scripted theirs, immediately it had little issues they dumped it on you, tomorrow they will claim IPPIS.
7.) They said you lacked the political will to fight insurgency yet most if not all the LGA'S you reclaimed and handed over to them have been lost with unimaginable loss of lives.
8.) Those who claimed the presidential Air fleet was too large and a complete waste of resources have spent over 5 billion naira in just 6 months fuelling the fleet and junketing from one continent to another without any thing to show for it.
8.) You said your ambition was not worth the blood of a single Nigerian you proved it by your actions.
9.) The first female Cadets of the NDA are grateful.
10.) The First set of students from the 11 new federal universities who are now in 400 level are grateful.
11.) The first Sets of students from the University of Petroleum are grateful.
12.) The First sets of Nigerian Pilots trained abroad are Grateful.
13.) The Recipients of the Presidential scholarship scheme for first class students which was recently suspended by our change agents are grateful
14.) The recipients of the Youwwin programme and the Youwwin for women are grateful
15.);The beneficiaries of the innovation in fertiliser distribution will never forget you.
16.) The 1000 Beneficiaries of the TETFUND scholarships for Lecturers in Nigerian Universities are grateful
17.) The generations that will access information via the freedom of information act (FOI) will see your signature
18.) The Millions of Almajiri pupils across Nigeria who benefited from you milk of kindness will live to testify it.
19.) Those who ply the Abuja - Lokoja Benin road will remain thankful
20.) NYSC Members who will benefit and those who have benefited from the increased of allowances from =N= 8216 to =N= 19800 are grateful.
21.) those who benefited from 6000 minimum wage to 18000 minimum wage will forever remain grateful
May heaven and History be kind to you today and Always.

Babasessy:
Awo Family Without An Awo By Sam Omatseye (The Offensive Article)

The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.

The only person that made a real try was Awolowo-Dosunmu in the early 1990s and she lost roundly. She was accused of trying to ride her father’s coattail. Political families are good for democracies. They can exemplify the high ideals of diligence, dignity, ideas, character. We have seen these in such families as the Kennedys, the Adamses, the Roosevelts, the Ghandis. They just don’t claim family. They appeal to the high ideals that endeared the families to their societies.

It’s also an irony that these families are falling into twilight. Some of them have vanished. Enoch Powell, a British MP, once gave us the famous line: “All political lives, unless they are cut off midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure because that is the nature of politics and human affairs.”

Columnist Ambassador Dapo Fafowora adverted to this idea in a recent outing, and I debated it with him afterwards. I don’t believe that a political life should be judged by how it ends but what it means. The quote is often missed by many who mistake “careers” for “lives.” A political life should be judged by its legacies. If we judged Awo by how he ended, we would look at him only as the loser to Shagari. That is why I see an intrinsic mischief in Enoch’s quote. But I would agree that political families end also in failure if you judge how they peter out and not the legacy.

Awo’s legacy is alive and well. Members of other families in flesh and blood can carry on. Immediate families tend to suffer from what an author, Noemie Emery, describes as dynastic curse. The children tend to be intimidated by the standards set by the fathers. So they just don’t want to try. They feel they cannot match them or come even close.  The problem probably comes from the fathers themselves. The Adams, who produced important presidents, later gave birth to moral vagrants and drunks. The Bush daughters showed themselves as party girls when their father was contesting the political battle of his life.

But Joe Kennedy groomed his sons assiduously, and they excelled in politics. They also had a fair share of tragedies. Ted Kennedy regained his sobriety and voice in America after a season of debauchery. In Nigeria, we are seeing the Sarakis fade. A Saraki – Bukola - is wiping out the Sarakis from politics. It is a classic case of oedipal tragedy, something I predicted earlier this year on this page.

It is not late though for the flesh-and-blood Awolowos to join their father’s fold. But they must be genuine. Awo was the most important Yoruba personage in history after Oduduwa. They had stellar men like Oranmiyan, Balogun Latosa, Lisabi, Sodeke, et al. None of them had the unifying vision and organisational acumen that Awolowo gave the race. The wife, children and grandchildren should not watch others glow in his jewel without them.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

afroxyz:
Whether you complete the story or not, I have one conclusion. The OP is just good at using people to achieve what she wants.

Speechless3:
But babe didn't i try for you? You had to bring up our 'ugly' past here. Anyway hope you are okay now? Its been long.

Rita.

linearity:
There is already a precedence on this case and it is: Amaechi vs. INEC.

In relaying on Section 221 of the 1999 Constitution, the supreme justices concluded that, votes cast are for the party and not the candidate. And as such, if a candidate dies, the party for whom the vote were cat can elect another eligible candidate to assume those votes and contrary to the Honorable Governor, those votes are not invalid.

Though, one do not like this conclusion, but it is the law of the land; it gives the political parties too much power.

2n2k:
Was Lugard's family house in UK preserved the way his official quarters in Lokoja was preserved? Of what historical/political significance is an uncompleted personal house of Fajuyi in Ado-Ekiti (he didn't complete it before he was killed). The govt house in Ibadan from where he governed and was abducted is more significant in this context.

Fearcom:
A typical mediocre response.

I asked you to defend PDP where stealing is not corruption. You avoided it. Instead you made reference to a statement Buhari allegedly made. Have you absolved all the atrocities PDP committed with your response?? No. You cannot. A party of "People Deceiving People"

gretblue:
United state district court photo copy letter head paper. Joke of the century.

drealzum:
I don't really understand the essence of "Walks out on thread". Do you want to be begged? In as much as I will say your story is nice and many can learn from it, you are also not doing us a favour alone by sharing it. Having an avenue to share it and get others response can be soothing and reliving. And that is a favour from us.
Truth is there were many stories on Naira land before you "walked in on thread" and there will be many after you have "walked out on thread".
I will advise you develop thick skin to proples scathing remarks here because I too can tell my on story here.

gretblue:
Jagaban does not involve in pilfering activities as you are known to be here on Nairaland.One wonders if this is how you intend to make ends meet in your life through this dubious activities of collecting N1000 airtime from people in the name of dubious data.lad get a job.

I remain grateful to Gbenga Daniel – Tinubu dismisses rift rumors



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A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has cleared the air on the alleged enmity between him and a former two-term Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel.

Tinubu, who spoke through Mr. Wale Edun at the 25th anniversary celebration of Otunba Gbenga Daniels’ Kresta Laurel, said there is no truth in the stories that he has been fighting with Gbenga Daniel, adding that they are still good friends.

Edun said: “I am here representing Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and my presence is to show that there is no friction between Asiwaju and Otunba Gbenga Daniel”


Mr. Edun went on to explain that whenever Tinubu drives past the Kresta Laurel building in Maryland, Lagos, he remembers the enormous contributions Daniel made to the take off of his administration in 1999 and was immensely grateful.

He revealed that the Peoples Democratic Party chieftain was very gracious to donate the Kresta Laurel building to Tinubu’s campaign team at the time it was just being completed.

“The Daniels also made a section of their home available to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu whenever he worked too late and could not go home. After the election, he also allowed us to use it for the Transition Committee where he was a member”


More from: http://dailypost.ng/2015/10/21/i-remain-grateful-to-gbenga-daniel-tinubu-dismisses-rift-rumors/

Benz4pimp:
I wasn't expecting anything other than what she just did,am sure the op might come back and direct you to a blog for the remaining part of the story......when you give peeps to much attention and accolade,there head go dey swell.....

Fearcom:
In orders words, you don't have any defense Just as I thought..

obuduman:
What about western Germany?

tolugar:
Last chance of touring the world with the remaining part of his life.