₦airaland Forum

Ibime:
JP Phillips, your intentions are good, but unless you are suggesting that corruption is a genetic deficiency of which Niger-Deltans are more prone to, then you have no leg to stand on.

Niger-Deltans are not responsible for prosecuting corrupt leaders. FG is. We will not be denied our rights based on this nauseating excuse.

Niger-Delta did not come into existence 9 years ago when the boys picked up guns. For 30 years, we have also been on 1.5% and 3.0% derivation and Nigeria has never proved themselves more capable of running our affairs when they controlled the resources, so your argument is invalid.

Any indigene of PH would tell you that PH saw the greatest development under the stewardship of Michael Okpara, Melford Okilo, Diete-Spiff, Rufus Ada-George and Rotimi Amaechi. All these are sons of the soil. Odili is the only overwhelming disappointment. All other Governors of Rivers State did nothing for us. Governor Adeleye was sacked in the 1990's for misappropriation of funds. We have had enough of Nigeria controlling our resources, thank you very much. We will take it from here. After all, its our will to decide.

BTW, an Igbo man such as yourself with anti-ND and anti-Ojukwu sentiments. . . . are you sure you are not a rogue element?

sjeezy8:
as i said to bukola dont read in to much of what i said my point is that nigeria breaking up will never happen with ease. Has nothing to do with black man or white man its not beneficial as of right now to break up for anyone. use your head

what tribe are you - hard headed ones

chidichris:
i did not read whatever it is and i don't intend to do so but my happiness is that abiola and abacha were killers and they were killed making the bible the words of truth. it is writen that those who live by sword will die by sword.
the almighty abiola was said to be practically part of all coups in nigeria and abacha himself is a devil so why worrying reading about them.
no matter what is writen in there, most of us happy with the news will be those favoured by its contents but as they will not be happy with any news that go against their interests.
my only interesting news today will be that which will give us reason why we do not have power supply in nigeria, why we cannot have a free and fair election, why our roads remain in bad shapes, why our security remains a day dream and why obj as a person has taken over nigeria as his private business.
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You need to read the article to know the whys you are asking.The interview is not just about abacha and abiola but the cage nigeria as a whole.

sjeezy8:
what do you mean foreign powers will intervene or support civil war use your brain, many of the things in nigeria are funded by outside people. who would never want nigeria to break up.

ode ni e instead of you to post something reasonable you wen to post nonsense- obviously if nigeria breaks up the foreign investors will have to go through new governemnts maybe pay higher for agriculture oil or natural gas a shipping cost, many things, you think they feel like paying more NO exactly why the british supported Nigeria during the firt civil war

sjeezy8:
yorubaman? ok i think your reading into my comment too hard. there are some things that people shouldn't read to deeply in because it causes madness. As i said lemmi make my millions before the country goes to hell- i was being sarcastic, there are too many investments all over nigeria that will be lost and everyone person who has money invested in nigeria feels the same way. the dvision of Nigeria doesnt benefit anyone. I think you need to stop having a small mind and think of foreign powers who have invested in Nigeria. That being said STFU and stop pretending like your a yorubaman and tryin to cause divisions.
BITCH of all d names dis ODE chose bukola LMFAO facking bitch
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But yea @ topic i dont think its about religion, i think the man overthought it too much. The british know about the norths oligarchy because prince charles always visits emirs to the north- its like a middle finger to the south. the best thing for nigerians to do is switch power the south against the pdp

desgiezd:
Can we now say without that IBB is the root of almost all evil in Nigeria?

olabukola:
How are you sure the man is not ibo or any of the south south folks. Look anybody can answer any name and say what ever he wants. He said OBJ is just an errand boy but b4 they carry out any coup they will inform him to give the go ahead. Is that not contradictory?

What should we do to earn the respect of the world?

There is no leadership in Nigeria. It is an organized chaotic place. The followership should push for complete reorganization of the country. Northerners demonstrated on June 12 that they cannot release people from servitude voluntarily. They are still in control. I don’t know why we suffer from collective amnesia. Everybody is suffering from attention deficit disorder (ADD). They merely brought Obasanjo to assuage the injustice. Obasanjo was governing but he was not in power. He thanked them for the eight years they gave to him and they said “thank you boy”. That’s all they did (laughs).

If you own a house, you go into any room. You tell your tenants where they have as their own place. You don’t jump anyhow. They collected the keys from Obasanjo. That’s what they did. The Southerners are tenants in Nigeria, the Northerners are the landlords.

So they gave it to Obasanjo, supposedly on behalf of the Yorubas because of the death of Abiola. And then everybody started shouting and said eh! Look at the man who midwife the so-called democracy. Abdulsalami Abubakar, it was Babangida who planted him there. He wanted to retire, Babangida said don’t leave, you will still do one thing for me (laughs). And then Babangida called all the Generals and said they no longer needed to stage coup anymore.

We know who they would want to give power to because results were ready even before elections. That’s because the media is owned by the big guys. Most of the guys in the media are hungry. How much do they pay them? Once you lose your job that’s it. You saw how Godwin Agthey treated Godwin Agbroko. No insurance, nothing. Your family would just suffer. It is just struggle for survival in Nigeria, that’s all.

How many Nigerian newspaper houses have insurance for their workers? Is there any culture of insurance ever in Nigeria? The question is that how many of the journalists are even being paid what they are worth? Everybody is just doing it to put food on the table. Take your children to the school. Everybody is in survival mode. So which media? That’s why they carry same headline all the time (laughs).

Do they even have the money to look for stories? That is why they have myriads of awards. “Governor of the Year”. It’s all rubbish (Laughs). How many of them have the money to investigate stories? Is it Compass that is owned by Gbenga Daniel? People are suffering. Unless you are in government, you have to steal. It is that bad.

That is why I asked why my friend Dr. Fayemi should go and stay in Nigeria. There is no newspaper in Nigeria. Look at the way you guys are serializing the Biography of M.K.O. Abiola. I issued the challenge to Nigerian newspapers to serialize it free. None of them has been able to take up the challenge. Nigeria is a failure. That is why I am one hundred percent behind the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND). I don’t hide it. That is what we need in Nigeria. Until the landlord/tenant relationship between the north and south stops, the problem would continue. The North wants to corner power for life, that is not a nation, even if it happens like that in America, people will fight. You remember how the blacks rejected slavery here.

No. The brigands are in Abuja. Those leaders in Abuja are the brigands. MEND is what Nigeria deserves. Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable. Should you and I be outside Nigeria if we have good leaders and good governance? If not for divine intervention do you know what Abacha was planning for Nigeria? When I published it that Abacha had stolen three billion were they not calling Razor junk publication?

All the stories that we are just hearing now, do you know that I carried them almost twenty years ago, while the so-called mainstream press were blackmailing me that my stories were junk. If Abacha did not die, would we have known that he coveted 7 billion out of Nigeria? That was a man who spent just five years. Do you know how much Babangida stole in eight years? Do you know how much Obasanjo stole in eight years? Plus the one he stole when he first came? How much were they paying him in the military that could make him own that Otta farm? So we know those who were stealing in Nigeria.

Just give me the opportunity and I would release the list of Nigerians and how much they own in their foreign accounts. When I published it in Razor in 1994, were they not blackmailing me?

All those stories that later came out at Oputa Panel in Nigeria, I was the first to publish them.

This disclosure after years of the fire-bombing of Dele Giwa, I was the only one who carried it in Nigeria. The so called established press, even his friends and partners were scared to touch it. They only wanted money to take care of their families. None of them could come out to say “ah why? Why did you have to kill our colleague?” The worst that could happen would be to go into exile. Must they practice in Nigeria? But because of money. And Babangida had the audacity to go to Newswatch and buy shares and they allowed him. That is how you know that most of Nigerian journalists are stupid. They cannot fight for anything. They are only interested in money. That’s all. There is no one who is interested in honest leadership in Nigeria.

The following morning, Olutoye’s retirement was announced on the FRCN. It was so bad in the 1970s down till the 1990s that some Southerners in the Nigerian Military had to change their names to Mohammed, Umaru and even converted into Islam to get promotion. I knew those Southerners who left the Nigerian Army out of frustration because of this nonsense. The fact of the matter is there is no Nigerian Army, what we have is Northern Nigerian Army. We cannot continue like this as a people, Southerners must assert their legitimate rights in their own fatherland or we go our separate ways, period.
Do you know I have more rights as a Nigerian-American here in the United States than my native land Nigeria?

So look at Nigerian history, by next year, we shall be fifty years old as a nation. No non-Northerner has always earned a genuine mandate for the aspirations of our people. They control the military; this is the reality, the internal colonization of the country that I am talking about.

The southerners must sit down and organize and say that it is either they are accepted as equals or everybody must go his own way.

Now to current events; do you think President Obama will ever visit Nigeria?

What are you and I here for? You think we’ll be watching? Why am I in Chicago? Both in his first and second terms, Obama will never go to Nigeria. Are you even sure there will be a country called Nigeria by 2016 when Obama would have finished his second term?

No. Which democracy in which Babangida still rules by proxy? In which David Mark who once said that telephone is not for the poor is leading the senate? Mark who stole the telecommunications sector dry is ruling again in our time. You say that is democracy? You know Muktar, one of the Babangida boys is now at the NSA. The same set of deceptive characters is ruling.

Which democracy? The one in which election results are ready before people go to cast their votes?

For eight years that Obasanjo governed, he could not do anything. All these things you are hearing from me, if we were in Nigeria, no newspapers would carry it. This idea of Babangida’s past was what Bola Ige had when he became Attorney-General and Minister of Justice. He had all the papers on Babangida and his gang. He was coming to the U.S. to expose him and they had to kill him. Did you know that?

You haven’t gone back to Nigeria since you came in 1999.

Yes. And I am never going to go back. I am a U.S. citizen forever.

olabukola:
Hehehe is this a confession or what?.

Well i don't believe the story one bit, how come no ibo man is among the click that kill and torture innocent people.

Rebarobyn:
is it possible for someone who has so many companies listed on the stock exchange to become president of the same exchange, chei, anything is possible in this our Nigeria.

anyway, no need to be suspicious sha, I think he's good at what he does so I guess we could give him a chance but who's going to be watching him now?

knzguru:
The Nigerian Stock Exchange Council: The New Leadership Emerges

Dangote becomes 17th President of the NSE
Lagos, Nigeria, August 6, 2009 1340hrs: The Nigerian Stock Exchange successfully held its 48th Annual General Meeting at a well attended event where all the past presidents and distinguished members of the investment community and dealer members showed the clearest indication of their determination to move the market forward.

Dr. Oba Otudeko, OFR, the outgoing President of the council of the stock exchange conducted a flawless meeting which proshare streamed live from the venue - http://www.proshareng.com/newsletter/avp.php

At the end of the day, the following officers were appointed to lead the council of the Nigerian Stock Exchange:

1. Alhaji Aliko Dangote, CON former 1st Vice President now becomes the President

2. Chief Reginald Abbey-Hart,JP, former 2nd Vice President now becomes the 1st Vice President

3. Dr. Erastus B. O. Akingbola, MON, former Chairman of the Lagos/Ibadan Branch/Zone now becomes the 2nd Vice President

At the AGM, the outgoing president commended the role played by the Director General/CEO of the Nigerian Stock Exchange; Prof. (Mrs) Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, PhD, OON in stabilising the markets during the difficult times it is in,

contd, https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-306488.0.html

Abagworo:
sometimes i shed tears while driving through the streets of port harcourt.i dont know why i love naija otherwise i for don move since.all these noise about fashola this,amaechi that is nothing compared to one street in south africa,our past leaders should be moving around with their faces covered.

Uchebobo:
Nigeria is a country established by God with great natural resources, conquered by British, gained independence in 1960 but still in the dark looking for the right switch to turn on the light.

blacksta:
That Program was aired on tv for free - Na wa 0ooo are they going to pay royalities to the Jackson family

It is common knowledge that Nigerians are highly enterprising. What may not be generally known, however, is that most of the beautiful buildings on parade in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Singapore, are owned by Nigerians. KUNLE AWOSIYAN reports.

presido1:
The day we will face reality is the day chad or niger sign aggrement to suply us Electricity.
"United we Stand" to take rubbish thrown at us by our "United Politicians"