₦airaland Forum

hoodboy:
It would surprise you folks to know that an almost extinct kind of gorilla exist in calabar and as a matter of fact it is called the cross river gorilla it exists in the only surviving rain forest in nigeria which is found in calabar. you can google it up

I do not not doubt the gorilla you are talking about as gorillas typically exist in tropical rainforests.I do not also doubt leopards as shown by my post you quoted because leopards also exists in tropical rainforest(in fact they thrive here because of their affinity to trees) but lions in thick tropical forests found in cross river state  I doubt it as lions exists only in savanna areas.

Ezeuche i have to admit that you talk trash at times.

lelele:
@Asha80

I never directed any of my posts to you, but since u r interested and u said "see who is lamenting." May I humbly put it to u, dat considering the content of yr numerous posts on dis forum I can easily infer dat I am more educated and exposed dan u are and possibly dan u can eva hope to be.

My guy it is good to boost your ego and boast about your 'achievements' when no one is ready to do that.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=413069.msg5691487#msg5691487 date=1268589997]Maina is guilty of not doing his job as well. I believe the said corruption is a major part of the reasons why.

@honeric, if there is a real audit of these governors' accounts, I don't think a single one will escape guilt. Sad but true.[/quote]Ndu chucks stop waffling!How is jang's 'corrupt nature' related to a GOC not doing his job when obviously jang and bali contacted or tried to warn him of an attack?

lelele:
@ Mekusxx, Ezeuche

I am tired, really tired! When people say Nigerian universities are not good enough, its people like you that make me unable to answer the question properly. Your thought process is either faulty or you must be devoid of logic. I cannot see how this thread should lead to tribe bashing. For crying out loud, you guys are not as educated as the yorubas, not as intelligent as the yorubas, but we don't use any and every opportunity to shove it in your face.

See who is lamenting

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=413069.msg5691263#msg5691263 date=1268586943]FACE, I'm simply being realistic given the Nigerian condition. I agree with you that the relationship between Jang and Maina should not determine the level of the later's commitment to his call of duty - unfortunately that's not the realities in Nigeria. These people are corrupt to the core.[/quote]How does Jang's 'corrupt nature' apply to this case?Or are you trying to be clever as usual?

honeric01:
i see, then definitely, we are not practicing true democracy, why can't a governor be able to instruct the army in his state when there's an emergency?

So you think we have been practising real federalism or democracy?  

honeric01:
The GOC is an hausa man and he purposely allowed the massacre to go on.

one more thing, i heard the governor has no power to instruct the army in his state, how true is that?

100% true.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=413069.msg5690546#msg5690546 date=1268574614]@asha 80, are you a Nigerian?


mikeansy!!! diversionary tactics? That's a stretch na. I was not addressing the root of the problem but simply pointing out that both the Governor and the General are incompetent, and that the system is corrupt. Shikena.[/quote]You very disingenuous.So maintaining cordial relationship with the GOC is by bribing the GOC periodically when the GOC is not under him?And with this stupid mentality you hope the country will just move forward?

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=413069.msg5690486#msg5690486 date=1268573682]The Governor himself is incompetent as well. He should have established cordial and close relationships with those who are meant to safeguard the security of the state. I suspect that the Governor did not give the General the customary egunje - these people are all thieves.[/quote]Elaborate on the bolded.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=412959.msg5690469#msg5690469 date=1268573337]I meant moving on with the discussion of SNC. Those quotes can be used to butress points made, but not in the introduction of the discussion. Its only my opinion and Beaf does not have to remove them from the initial post - I simply believe that many people may simply ignore the thread because of those inflammatory remarks.[/quote]Those quotes are the foundations of this space on this planet called nigeria.If the foundation is bad anything you build on top is waste of time.We better start with the foundations of this country otherwise we will just be wasting energy debating here.Inflammatory remarks yes but that was what the country was built upon and per ignoring the thread well nigerians have overtime being known to be more interested in solving[b] effect of a cause and not cause of the effect.[/b]

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=412959.msg5690393#msg5690393 date=1268571127]What's wrong with removing these inflammatory quotes and moving on?[/quote]Moving on to what?

We should sweep them under the carpet like we usually do?

Bring out those south east/south quotes so that we can have a balanced view of where we are coming from so that we will know where we are going.

FL Gators:
Dont politely insult me by bringing my education status into this. . . I dont see how spending time in classes contribute to me knowing a potbelly ugly man named charly There's no rule that says I MUST know every Nigerian actor just because I'm Nigerian.

Why dont you simply tell me who he is? Or simply let someone else do that

i will rather let someone else do that.

Knowing that you are educated and you are quite aware of nigerians in entartianment i find it difficult that you do not know who Charly boy is unless you were born and brought up in US.

FL Gators:
I'd also like too know who the fugly dude is

Are u a nigerian

There are no lions in southern nigeria forests let alone the thick forests in calabar.There is also an igbo word for lions but lions never existed there.I am sure what the meant to write was leopards.

vislabraye:
And they do hey deny their Ibo roots ? because most of you guys dont have good reputation.

If you canspeak Effik fluently so? Talking about saboteurs, I wonder whether you were born during the civil war era or you just want to formulate our own theory. Anyway OYO

Name an ethnic group in nigeria that has 100% good reputation?

this post reeks of trouble

Hunger looms!
Special Reports Mar 13, 2010 …as Hausa traders stop food supplies to other parts of the country

By Ebun Babalola & Olasunkanmi Akoni
A call from the Deputy Editor, Saturday Vanguard, Chioma Gabriel, changed my entire Thursday routine. Ordinarily, as a journalist, I would resume duty as early as possible especially as Thursdays are hectic production days.

The call was neither for me to call some personalities who are in politics nor was it the usual assignments. It was a different ball game.

I was asked to report at the popular Mile12 market and the reason given for this assignment was that,Hausa traders had embarked on strike.One question that came to my mind was why on earth would tomatoes sellers go on strike?

On getting to Mile 12, it dawned on me that a bowl of tomatoes that usually sold for N100 now sells for a thousand naira (N1000).

Based on the information gathered, the Hausa who are major wholesalers in the trade have indeed embarked on strike since March 8, because of the persistence problem encountered while transporting their goods from the farms to the city. The goods include tomatoes, meat, yam, pepper, chilly pepper, spices amongst others.

At exactly, 10.30 a.m. Thursday, the ever busy Mile 12 market was scanty. I walked up to a meat seller and asked where I can get tomatoes . His answer was scary. He said, “Madam, if you want to buy tomatoes, you have to go to the North”.

“Why? “ the writer asked.


Traders at the Mile 12 Market, Lagos.
“I wouldn’t know. They said, the Hausa are on strike, they said the money they are collecting from them is too much. They said that LASTMA is disturbing them. They said the police is collecting too much money than expected and to worsen the situation, the touts are not helping matters.”

“ Who are the they?” the writer asked.

“ Madam, please, leave me alone, I don’t know what you want from me”, he answered.

In another encounter with a woman who was selling pumpkin leaves, (Ugu), she said, “the Hausa have been lamenting over this issue for the past two months before they finally embarked on this strike. Look at that man sitting over there, he used to sell tomatoes but now, he is selling onions because he couldn’t get tomatoes to buy”.

Mallam Musa Abubakar told Saturday Vanguard that “the strike started Monday, March 8 but he doesn’t know when it would end.”

According to him, “the Hausa have been suffering in the hands of the so-called government agencies. They are protesting multiple taxation paid as revenue which is becoming unbearable thereby frustrating the efforts of the Hausa traders. And apart from government, the LASTMA, policemen, touts also collect theirs. The total amount collected at the end of the day is always between 50,000 and 100,000 per trailer.”

As at the time of this investigation, market women and men who spoke with Saturday Vanguard lamented that the strike is now affecting their businesses. The reason they gave is that since the Hausa have gone on strike, prices of other food items have gone higher than expected.

Further investigation revealed that a plate of tomatoes in Mile 12 that used to be sold for N100 is now N1000 while the ones sold for N50 before is now N300. A bowl of rotten tomatoes which used to be sold for N100 is now N500. Buyers now crave for what is available.Even the ever rejected rotten tomatoes suddenly became appealing to the buyers. They were ready to buy whatever seemed like tomatoes in the market.

The strike which has entered its sixth day is now becoming unbearable for market women and men, not only in Mile 12 but other markets in different parts of the country especially Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Kwara and other parts of the country.

At present, traders from the Northern parts of Nigeria have boycotted various markets especially Lagos as there have been no supply of cows, tomatoes, pepper, yam, chilly pepper and other food items from the North to Lagos markets, thus leading to the scarcity of these commodities.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/03/13/hunger-looms/

Lakshmi Mittal - United kingdom

Tippy Top:
Tribal bigots are only supporting Nzeribe because he's of Igbo stock, same bigots whine whilst accusing the Hausa's of breeding kleptomaniacs. This is a joke right?

You need to learn to discern discussions before you type without your brain.Who is supporting what he said?