₦airaland Forum

Ciscogod:
Bro. The political structure we have today can never emancipate us

Africa does NOT need strong men. It needs strong INSTITUTIONS.
~Barack Hussein Obama, POTUS

olatunji21:
Yea... Despite all Gbaja did for him... His reason for supporting Dogara gave him out as a Tribalist..

RevDesmondJuju:
[size=18pt]Buhari : He just recovered from ebola.

Osunbade: I don suffer for this mallam hand[/size].

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2507480_chqcpuuumaaeik_jpeg7b23bd5d77984f1469b9482a5204015a

gretblue:
Your cheap avoidable data is a fraud.

Fearcom:
Then what do you call PDP where 'stealing is not corruption'?

Ciscogod:
If you read my post well. U will see I personalized it.

I ssid my first encounter with him was when he campaigned for fayemi.

tobillionaire:
Long hijab shld b disallowed... Are dy nt feeling heat sef

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/

Ciscogod:
Tinubu pass through late Fajuyi house. He saw how decapitated the building was. He brought the building down and built a modern building. He now Butress his action by saying, Fajuyi was a military gov of western Nigeria. He shouldn't die and his name should also dies.

gretblue:
Have forgotten he's the lone slayer of your hero.Have you forgotten how he made your Hero ,Gej to have sleepless nights by turning Lagos and visiting Lagos more than 12 times in a month with a bid of winning election in Lagos state.

Some here may not understand the import of these results. It shows that after the collapse of ACN/CPC talks, Jonathan was able to secure a guarantee from Tinubu and the other ACN leaders to soft pedal in the South West for him to have a foothold in the region, hence the bright showing of PDP in the West. On the other hand, Ribadu and Shekarau agreed to support one of their own - Buhari, hence the resurgence of CPC all over the Northern States.

These things could not be announced openly due to the closeness of the agreement to the election date, but the messages were relayed to party leaders at ward levels and also to party agents, hence the incident of ACN agents voting for PDP.

The fact that this election throws up is that South - South coalition can defeat the Northern oligarchy in free and fair elections - that is, if Jonathan wins. The great sage, Awo foresaw this possibility in his lifetime which explains his oft recourse to selecting Igbo Vice Presidential candidates, but the propaganda machines of the oligarchy prevented a south-south coalition to see the light of the day. Today, Awo is being vindicated, the south can actually win the presidency of Nigeria without bowing to the shenanigans of the oligarchy.

From: http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/62115-presidential-polls-d-day-jonathan-buhari-ribadu-shekarau-4.html#post537875

gretblue:
Have forgotten he's the lone slayer of your hero.Have you forgotten how he made your Hero ,Gej to have sleepless nights by turning Lagos and visiting Lagos more than 12 times in a month with a bid of winning election in Lagos state.

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

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/

najoke:
Madam sofry lie now....u don forget thhe fuel scarcity b4 Jona left....10- 15 ltrs was sold for 10k or more

Edited, can you see the date, guess PMB was in power then......now cover ya lying face with shame

obailala:
Quit being clever by half... You have deceived yourself to the point where you now believe your own lies. The GDP growth chart you even posted above clearly shows an uncontrollable nosedive from late 2014 till mid-2015 from where it is clear that the values are bouncing back. The last time I checked, the maladministration of your hero extended to the tail end of the 2nd quarter of 2015 (which represents the worst economic performance on that chart). if you were half as intelligent as you think you were, you would have clearly seen that the image you posted invalidates your own argument. Here's a better image to show true trend of the GDP growth under your hero. After taking over a robust economy, the free-fall can clearly be seen from the general trend line since 2010.

ionsman:
This was in 2013.Buhari was the unofficial president.

July 26 2013 http://shipsandports.com.ng/21-vessels-bring-394055mt-of-refined-petroleum-products-to-lagos-ports/

This was in 2014.Then Buhari was acting president.......

March 9 2014 http://www.informationng.com/2014/03/fuel-scarcity-to-ease-as-two-petrol-laden-vessels-arrive-lagos-port.html

Here Buhari was still acting president......

April 8 2015
http://www.informationng.com/2015/04/fuel-scarcity-worsens-in-abuja-as-15-ships-carrying-petroleum-products-arrive-lagos.html

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

accelion:
@op, don't you think you are overdoing it? You are beginning to prove that this is just one interesting story instead of a reality. Initially, we all understood the delay with low battery, low mb, work n all that but now it's obvious you are enjoying the accolade you are receiving. Nobody shares a sad experience and put suspense. You are even beginning to write them short. If people feel for your story, don't take them for granted. #justsaying

obiorathesubtle:
girls can successfully survive in school easier than boys ever wil.

I mean, as a guy. I don't think a girl would offer to let me stay at her place if I'm this hopeless.

Of course, I won't want to stay even if I get an offer.

I have the right ego! And I think I speak for every other guy.

anonimi:

As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be- Amen
Women rule the world but smartly let men think they (men) are in charge!

marlockj:
Does cleaning and cooking pay 94k?

Wen Op entered Rita's house the 1st day,she said it was clean and beautiful, meaning Rita was always cleaning n washing.meaning without Op Rita will still b doing dat.

The meals,dresses etc.

kozmokaz:
pmb go soon show una d qualities of a dictator

marlockj:
Guy that's not insult.

Let's be real,how do u xpect Rita to pay the rent.

From Wat we read,the Op live 100% on Rita,from cloths to food,shelter.Wat else do u think a human can do without demanding for anything.


If only Op was able to pay, Bt ha condition was critical.

To me I don't blame Rita or Op.Bt to me Rita ha to look for resources to pay the rent.

She even gv Op 3k,wich Op rejected.to me is wrong for Op to hv rejected that.

A person who harbour you for that long,without getting anything in return,the Op should hv known dat sooner or later the resources of the habourer will b chairs,since it was divided into 2.

And besides if u knw hw girls treat their fellow girl u will knw Rita really tried,do u knw Wat it means for a girl to let a girl wear ha dress.

to me should even tnk Rita for everything

stjsd:
next time u go to the nearest church or mosque.

Emperortj93:
I know God will never allow his servant to be put to shame.

If u believe say amen

derecho:
Pls read again.tnx

tos4u:
My friend God does not smile to people who try to fight His anointed,

TRUTHSURE:
This is a transfer of aggression. Most Churches register as a non proft orgnization which I belive is the same with the Nigerian Church in SA and by so doing, they are not required to disclose their financial statements to the public etc. This cannot be otherwise accept there's change in appropriate law addressing it.