₦airaland Forum

Skepticus:
That's a Gaboon Viper, the snake with the longest fangs in the world. This specimen is big, if it was captured alive (which is very difficult), it will fetch good money for the OP, being sold to snake collectors in the wild. It is scarce and a favourite of these collectors, especially Americans.

A deadly ambush predator, it can wait for more than 8 hours in a motionless position for prey to pass by before it strikes.

It camouflages in dead and dry leaf materials (in the south), sandy areas (in the north) where it comes in contact with humans, mostly farmers and bites for protection. It's quite common in the thick forests of the southwest.

It's cytotoxic venom will bring a man down in 30 minutes or less.

I never knew this type of adder is still even in SW. I thought long extinct in SW and perhaps found from Middle Belt upwards.

It must be very rare in SW. The size shows its a rain forest well fed specimen.

Luckily its not a very aggressive snake like mamba or cobra. But its venom load is herculean from its long deep penetrating fangs. One of the most deadly vipers and one of most deadly snakes.

The Camouflage is scary.

Farmers who use their hands to work the earth are most risk.

lexy2014:
That's not true. Some old people prefer some physical activity in old age which makes them feel alive. Infact, it's very good for them. Having successful kids doesn't mean d man shouldn''t engage in farming. By d way, it doesn't mean d man was doing d heavy lifting

Those people talking like that clearly have no good links with their village. If not they will know better. Ika people are very successful people. Even just one of his grand kids could put him the city comfortably forever. Old folks who were always active need that activity continuously. The man could easily have gone on to be over 90 easily, being so active.

RIP.

gaius01:
When you didn't plan for the future as a young and train your kids to be loving to you as parents you tend to live like newly wedded couple in old age. The hustle still continues !! Such a pity !!!

Rip Sir ! Where are his children?

Very wrong. Many such old folks still like going to farm. Even if just to check around, do little things, etc.

Some have kids who are very well to do but refuse to come and be idling in the city. They will even die within a short time from boredom, lack of exercise, weight gain, etc. Some even refuse to use the car their child or grandchild buys for them. To them going to farm is not suffering as you see it but just routine.

RIP.

And one guy like that parades himself as Aare Ona Kankanfo.

HenryThegreat1:
Watch how Yoruba and their media houses will start launching different form of attacks against person of Jonathan because of today news that about 4 northern governors were rooting for his coming back.

Well, it seems some in SW are enjoying herdsmen killing in Ondo, Oyo and elsewhere. Only hypocrisy will make people for Amotekun due to widespread insecurity under Buhari and still praise him to high heavens. Talking from both corners of the mouth so to speak.

Gerrard59:
Actually, after 2015 and with the present administration's agric policies, some youths got involved in farming. But what did they get? Herdsmen crises and a closed border. One can manage with the latter but the former is extremely discouraging and scares others from going into it.

I went into farming during GEJ time like many people I know. Many Began poultry, fishery or piggery around 2011. By 2015, economy had got so bad, feed too expensive and purchasing Power too low that many of us packed up. Herdsmen stopped us from cassava and plantain farms by 2017.
I cannot understand how Buhari encouraged farming. Go to my topics and you will see when I created the topics. about piggery and palm oil just in case you doubt.

PharmOsi1:
I am a Pharmacist, I own a consulting firm to help non pharmacist that wants to invest in the Pharmaceutical industry and don't know.

Hello Osibachi, let's discuss about this. I know someone who might be interested. From my discussion with him in the past.

triple996:
Dis excusee won't solve the issue.
How many companies were present b4 independence,were there high rate of crime?? With all the opportunities in lagos and port Harcourt did it reduce d rate crime there?? U people should please find solutions and stop giving excuses

Truth be told Nigerian population in 1960 was 45 million. Now 200 million.

People were mostly rural and farmed all kinds of crops. Rice, cocoa, rubber, ground nuts, yam, oil palm, cotton, sorghum, maize, beans, sugar cane, cassava, etc. Most are now educated to secondary level, more live in cities, believe they deserve all the modern things of life in the city.
Farming has not been encouraged or made attractive to young people.

Cocoa, cashew and fruit trees can still create lots of employment.

10 APC governors with poverty, youth employment, poor health, Covid-19, bandits, herdsmen and kidnappers ravaging their states abandon their duty posts to elevate they sycophancy to another level during a pandemic and follow Buhari to Daura.

Amotolongbo:
What about this?

Papers milled in a secular milling factory used in producing the Bible.

Tablets and phones manufactured by the secular tech giants with secular softwares to drive the soft bible, hymns and gospel music players in them.

Chairs manufactured in a secular factory used in church.

Musical instruments which are manufactured by secular industry being used in church.

Clothing materials (suits, lace, Ankara etc) produced for secular world being worn to church.

There is no way you can totally alienate the secular world from the church. What should make the difference is the spiritual message and should be devoid of excesses and vulgarity.

Maybe ICT stuff invented by gays should not be used by Christians and church.

Make dem bring me all their iPad, iPhone, and Mac books. If we are not careful, religion will gradually turn some people into extremists. Even Christians. Too many funny questions. There is a potentially fertile ground for extremist brainwashers out there.

You wonder if people have to make everything a matter of religion.

nony43:
Obj never supported Buhari at first just that he got no option then, and he had an outstanding beef with Gej.

OBJ didn't want GEJ to win. Because GEJ did not become his errand boy as he expected. OBJ would have supported Shekau the Boko leader. That is how hateful and vindictive OBJ is.

We all have to live with the calamity of Buhari regime. Nobody is safe from bandits, herdsmen and kidnappers now.

nero2face:
*WHILE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT PRESENTLY, SEVEN OUT OF EVERY 10 KIDNAPPERS ARRESTED TURN OUT TO BE FULANIS, THE SULTAN, HOWEVER, INSISTED THAT THEY DO IT IN COLLABORATION WITH PEOPLE OF OTHER ETHNIC STOCK*

MR SULTAN u just acknowledged a very big fact...if 70% of kidnappers are Fulani then u don't have to play this ur defence strategy


....go and fix ur land...something is wrong with ur system...

Correction sir: 70 to 80% he said in the main body of article. So let's say average is 75%.

My question is, what is the percentage of Fulani in Nigerian population? It can't exceed 5 to 7%. Even if you include all the Niger and Chad Fulani that claim Nigeria.

So what is oga Sultan not saying that we are yet to know?

SpecialAdviser:
My anger in all these is not that they are speaking up to warn Igboho.
It is that they have been silence to warn Fulani herdsmen until Igboho sprang up.

Why?

God bless you. The reason Igboho even had any listeners is because those with influence to voice Southern predicament have all been quiet. Even when the Olufon of Ifon was murdered. Not to mention other atrocities.

By the way same applies to almost all the monarchs, not just the Ooni.
The issue is no more just SW issue. It's the entire South.
I understand the Ooni urging people to calm things down and he probably went to see Buhari to urge him to act. But Southern leaders have failed woefully on this matter.

Well, good luck. May your dream come true.

Martinez39s:
If God made him disabled because he would be pompous, why are other pompous kids from rich homes not born disabled? Is his disability divinely orchestrated or is it just a natural happening and lot that could have happened to anyone regardless of their character?

God's mysterious ways, in effect, are remarkably similar to his nonexistence. Events always occur and proceed as you would expect if there was no god and man was left to fend for himself.

I believe God exists but perhaps not the way we Africans think he does. God is not sitting up there being a control freak, micro directing everything. Punishing everyone for every little misdemeanor.

God gives us enormous latitude to use our good nature to make the world and humanity better. We also have the freedom to do the opposite if we wish.

By and large events occur by chance. Of course God can intervene if he wants to.

CalliDora1:
I think it's high time the FG mandates a compulsory mental health routine check for all NIgerians living in Nigeria. I mean.... this depression is eating deep into every one by the day. Hian!

Govt that doesn't care if people eat or starve?
Begin with welfare benefits and health care for the poorest. Before we even talk of mental health. Mental health issues are largely as a result of poverty, suffering in deprivation in Nigeria.

NoApology:
He died of Covid-19. My doctor friend at fmc Asaba isolation centre confided in me.

Hmmmmm. The doctor friend just breached confidentiality through you.

RIP Chief Okowa.

tnerro1:
The federal government should take this kidnapping business seriously, anyone guilty of kidnapping should get life in prison with hard labor, in America that we like to copy, kidnapping is a serious offense so much that even the great FBI will get involved

Too late. FG missed the chance before it became too widespread.

If they had imposed death penalty on kidnapping, and executed them publicly, it wouldn't have grown this big. It is a soft crime as people see it.

A kidnapped person has no guarantee of returning alive. They still kill some despite paying ransom.

So it's a capital offence because weapons, threat of violence and violence are involved.

jchioma:
Kidnappings are becoming an industry in Nigeria. Thanks to failure of Buhari to stem the ugly trend.

It appears the thing has supply chains now.

Arms smugglers, arms middle men and end users (kidnappers, bandits, herdsmen).

City abductors, middle men and end use kidnappers.

Food and drink suppliers, middle men and end users/kidnappers in the forest.

So who knows how many supply chains surround it? How do they launder all the kidnap ransom payments? It won't surprise me if some criminal bankers have their own part in it.

It may sound absurd now but as things are going, kidnapping could become so common and make money for many people that people will say stopping it will ruin a vital economic sectors.

More absurd things have happened in Nigeria before.

RedboneSmith:
Why does the article refer to his son as "Crown Prince"? Do first sons inherit the throne in Ngwaland as they do in Benin and parts of Anioma?

Would be interesting to know.

eeetuk:
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday met the new service chiefs for the first time is an attempt to sweep thousands of Nigerians killed by Boko haran under the carpet.

I want to say that it is not going to work because Nigerians already know where president Buhari stands on getting rid of boko Haram: Buhari views boko haran as fellow Islamic bigots.

In 2015 when Buhari was running for president and president Goodluck Jonathan was on track to getting rid of boko Haram, Buhari said to Jonathan: " stop killing the muslims ".

Is that the voice of someone who is willing to get rid of boko Haram?

Lol. Let them be fooling themselves. I only pity the innocent who fall victim raping, maiming and killing by Boko Haram herdsmen and bandits.
Pity.

Rugaria:
Lol
Where they fighting corruption before? Buhari and his gang just got tired of telling themselves lies and simply dropped the sanctimonious facade..

They only just stopped pretending to be fighting corruption. The prof knows. He's just being cheeky.

gaius01:
Arrrrrrrh

Any body that takes this man's vaccine at his own peril. I have a video where some people where saying some nastic thing. They are whites,

Let me write what they said.


I can't upload the video, that is why I draft thier words. if you have YouTube channel so that you can upload it let me share the link here for those doubting.
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Be very careful with this bill gate guy, it's true he help Africa before and Nigeria. But before a person can poison you he must have make you feel at home and relaxed. And that is what has blind fold most of us

Am not taking any vaccine, I don't have covid 19. That's just the truth!

So you think Dunderheads are only found in Africa? The Dunderheads in the West are super super dumb. Reason is if despite all the easily accessible information in the West, they still refused to learn the empirical truth, then their case us utterly hopeless. I see them every day.

Luckily many of them are super bright, if not the West would have been a dump.

The same people you believe because they are white also believe that Africans all live in mud houses, totally without food and water. I guess they are right about your situation because they are white.

slawormiir:
Damnnn niggarrrr
Isoright......

I know nothing good is gonna come out of this ighalo transfer to man u....he is gonna flop


You can't move from Chinese super league to Ngonzi united....

And sister op should correct her title of the post..
Liverpool are the true red

YNWA.
Other reds Na counterfeit jor.

Rip

The boss Na fool. Should he have Said, "my mama nor go school or what? He should have pretended that she is Oxon or Cantab?

We dudu go just dey react like chemical over inconsequential stuff.

If the boss really loves another man's mother as he pretends to be, he should have increased his salary instead of sack. After all chances are that the uneducated mother won't be a bank CEO, govt official or some cash madam.

9ja is full of hypocrites.

So Christianity is being degraded by some people to this extent? Which doctrine is that? Spraying money on butt naked people in a river?

aremuforlife:
I am not in support of how the parent locked up their daughter, but we may not understand what the parent have been going through from 4 year when the child started the sickness, we all know that their is no governments support in this part of the world.

Fact remains that the same people shouting blue murder here now are the ones who stigmatise the disabled and their families. I have been shocked to hear what young educated people say about disabled people. Disgraceful.

We all sadly contribute to what the victims suffer.

Until we stop saying that God has punished people with disability or such nonsense, innocent kids will continue to suffer.

dawnomike:
Mo Salah does not have enough fan base for such... The King of Saudi always go for the best hence, the need for Messi or CR7

Pogba can do so. He is fairly popular.

LMS1:
Da! The Hustle Is Real!
But Why Do People Believe They Can Use Voodo To Hypotise Victim Some Thousand Miles Away?
Why Not Hypotise Your Network Providers First So They Give U Free Unlimited Data.I Mean The Vodoo Should Work In Anything Not Just Clients!
But Hell No!, The Vodoo Cant Even Tell U When Interpol Has Keep Track On You!
So Your Vodoo Is #SENSELESS!

Question is, is it working for them?

Whatever it is, nothing goes for nothing, everything has a price. Not worth it in my opinion.
Too bad.

flokii:
Of course it will stop..

We don't need your Zubby Michael or Nkechi whatever on a Yoruba dedicated movie channel. We are okay with our own stars like Kunle Afolayan, Femi Adebayo, Muyiwa Ademola, Olaniyi Afonja (Sanyeri), Ijebu et al. acting in our native dialect.

Take your meaningless English movies to AM Igbo.

You will be surprised that many people are like Clarence Peters the music video producer. Many out there are mixed. Yemi Alade nko? Lots of Yoruba language actors, especially women are from South South and South East.

If not for the Civil War, there would have been lots of Yoruba in the East. I still know several elderly Yoruba who said the time they spent in the East before the war was their best in life. Some had to leave their Igbo fiancé or fiancée as the war broke out.

I am not Igbo.

gregyboy:
This further explains that the Yoruba borrowed the idol ogun from benins

The word for iron in Yoruba is agbede not ogun

Samuk, etinosa, Valirex, Areafada2, nocomment2

The cross dresser thrives on being given attention. Now, a mischievous guy claiming igbo is the friend of the cross dresser because of his spat with Benin people. It shows you the character that people will connive with anyone because of jealousy.

The matter of Ondo and indeed all of Eastern Yorubaland reflecting Edo culture is not in doubt. I know the area very well.