₦airaland Forum

naijaking1:
My dear, that happened a long time ago.
You could get yourself jailed by simply identifying yourself as a Nigerian in many situations here in the US

babapupa:
Don't you think he's free to clarify that?,

Countdown begins for Innoson vehicles
•Automotive Council excited
By Moses Akaigwe [igwemos@sunnewsonline]
Friday, July 24, 2009
•A midi bus being built at the new innoson plant in Nnewi
Photo:Sun News Publishing
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“My initial impression while touring Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company Limited auto plant project in Nnewi, was that of surprise. I was surprised that such a huge investment in machinery and tools can be somewhere in Nigeria. I was surprised, because what I saw was a massive collection of equipment, tools and, as a matter of fact, components of vehicles that Innoson company intends to produce. And of course, the number and calibre of staff that are already there working, is also something to talk about”.

The foregoing was the reaction of Engineer Akintunde S. Zedomi, member, Board of the National Automotive Council (NAC), who led a team that toured some auto companies in the south-east, including a new auto plant, which is being built in Nnewi by a private investor, Chief Innocent Chukwuma, OON, in partnership with Chinese auto makers.


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babapupa:
I don't think people label their posts with tribal Identifications, that's why we go by our utterances.

babapupa:
I was addressing the rant and last paragraph of the poster above me,

grafikdon:
Even a blind man can detect any of the numerous becomerich's ID. There are some Nairalanders who come in with multiple handles and take everyone for a ride, despite their occasional ''wrong steps". Becomerich comes in like a leopard with all the spots intact, but tells you he is now a carnivorous chicken, herbivorous Lion or an amphibious goat.

babapupa:
Why are you guys having sleepless nights over yoruba people and how many times are you gonna repeat the same nonsense?


Your towns and villages are in danger, the Igbo nation is under siege and you dummies are here constantly fixated on yoruba people. It's like you guys see yoruba people in your dreams, they are the people you wanna be. What are they doing to you?

You guys were saying the same backward nonsense and get left behind when yoruba people were building the 1st high rise in Africa, the 1st university in Nigeria, the 1st TV station in Africa, 1st free education program in Africa.

When are you going to start worrying about your own problem, yoruba people are not going to solve your problem.

All that nonsense is not gonna prevent fashola from planting another three, from adding the 3rd igbo man to his cabinet, from building another overhead bridge or ordering tons of BRT buses. You and your people on the other hand have leaders who are doing the opposite, your leaders are looting your resources right in front of you, they are buying mansions in london and sending their kids to private schools in Europe.




I know you guys have this brainwashed system going on and you pass it down to your kids but Yoruba people are the least of your worries, I you guys have better fish to fry right under your noses so why don't you start doing something about evil acts and decays like this in your community and worry less about yoruba people,




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These Kidnappings And The Destruction Of Igbo Nation




Written by Churchill Obinna Okonkwo
Monday, 15 June 2009

In the poem “The Second Coming" published in 1921, William Butler Yeats wrote that “… everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned; the best lack conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Kidnapping with passionate intensity is the only way one can describe the present situation in South Eastern Nigeria.

The worst of Ndigbo appears to have arrived and taken control of their lives, redefining their value system, traditional believes, morality, and everything they used to know and cherish. While acknowledging that moral decadence in our society cuts across almost all the ethnic nationalities in Nigeria, the alacrity with which the worst in Ndigbo have pervaded their societies and are now seen as role models calls for a critical examination.

I will use the recent wave of kidnappings in Igbo states to drive home my points. It is no longer news that the risks of kidnapping is now higher in south east Nigeria than in Niger Delta region. The passionate intensity with which some umu afo Igbo (sons of the soil) have taken to the act of kidnapping has left me bewildered. To make a clear distinction between why there is happening in Igbo land and not in the middle belt, northern Nigeria or western Nigeria, you need to try and answer this question; If the act of kidnapping is a reflection of the absence of law and order in Nigeria as a whole, why must it be in Igbo land that it has turned into a money making venture without any other cause or justification other than greed?

What started in Niger Delta as an act of protest against the environmental injustices and struggle over resource control which later deteriorated to acts of vandalism, greed, and money making venture has been hijacked, redefined and perfected by “faceless” vandals in south east Nigeria. The worst amongst Ndigbo are gradually taking over reigns of power and as these vandals drives fear into the poor masses.

Among the south eastern states, Anambra state appears to be the worst. There have been cases where the family of poor hostages who couldn’t afford to pay the huge ransom were snookered into selling plots of family land to raise the money by the kidnappers. There was a case where 20 million Naira was demanded and the captive’s family could only come up with 5 million Naira. And you know what the kidnappers did? The killed their hostage and told the family members where to go pick up the corpse and perform the burial ceremony with the 5 million. Just pause and think of that and the callousness.

It all started with the erosion of the sense of shame, courtesy, right and wrong in the past three decades. Amplified with reorientation of the traditional core values of honesty, integrity, equity, communal social responsibility and replaced by greed to get rich at all cost. Very soon, the people that matters, listened to and worshiped in the societies and villages became people that got rich overnight whose sources of wealth, to say the least are most times questionable.

Thus, Ndigbo had the era of Nnukwu Mmanwus (the big masquerades) and the Otimkpus (the praise singers). Igbu ozu became the yard stick to measure responsibility and acceptance in the society. They had the Otokoto era and the Edie Nogu scandals. Bakassi Boys have come and gone.

The prestigious place of civil servants and teachers in the villages were displaced in a chemical reaction that has cash, cars and greed as catalysts resulting in an unbalanced equation. Men who wanted to belong ebe ife na-eme (where things are happening) fled the civil service and teaching. Those who remained turned their offices and class rooms to business centers.

The 4th republic witnessed the first coming to age of the products of that greedy era. The Nnamanis, Mbadinujus, Kalus, Ubahs, Nzeribes and the likes. These acts of kidnapping is a graduation and marks the second coming of the beasts.

Meanwhile, the innocence has been silenced and drowned in Igbo land. The political beasts have rigged their way into elective offices. The traditional value system has been eroded and replaced by greed. Things have fallen apart and anarchy is gradually staring Ndigbo in the face.

I think it’s time for Ndigbo to re-evaluate their value system. Who do Ndigbo see as their role models? What do they cherish and value? What do parents wish for their children? What do a parent who takes a child out of a secondary school and pay their ways for the child to excel in exams through malpractice expect from that generation in ten years time?

Now back to the act of kidnapping for ransom. What drives this present wave of kidnapping in Igbo land? It is greed to get rich in order to belong to that new class of people that has arrived in the society. What most Ndigbo has forgotten is that greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

The chieftaincy titles, the knighthood in the churches, the traditional leaderships, the spoke’s person and all the prestigious positions in all facets of Igbo society should size to be exclusive reserve of the rich. A nation that worships wealth they say shall live to destroy itself. Are these acts of kidnapping marking the climax of the destruction of Igbo Nation? Ndigbo should be worried at the directions the moral decadence in their society is taking them. This is the time for every Igbo man and woman to pause, re-examine those things they believe in and start making amends.







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Bariga1:
Ikeyman,

It is easy to talk big English on your armchair in UK CHOPPING THE WHITE MANS BURGER AND CHIPS, come home and enjoy suffer-head like I am doing. Nothing constructive or objective on the way forward. Do you have even an idea of the level of suffering here? You said that allow decent people to rule Nigeria. You think these thieves in politics will give an intelligent person with a vision a chance to rule? Wake up from your slumber. We need something urgent to happen which will shake Nigerians and they will know that it is a new dawn for Nigeria.

Forget get God for now and talk objectively – if God has not deemed it fit to kill all those that are stealing billons daily I see no reason why he/she will complain if the White man comes back.

There is Smoke everywhere, roads dirty, cutters are dirty and smelling and when you ask people they laugh and say “that is Nigeria for you, God will save us one day” listen even Satan will be scared to come close to Nigeria in it’s current state. Light came for ten minutes and then went, when it came people were shouting that light has come, as if they do not pay for it.

Please read what I have written all along before you talk, please do not talk for the sake of it.

With the approval, the Kaduna College is now to be responsible for the training of management manpower needed in the industry while the older PTI, Effurun, Warri would be responsible for training the junior cadre manpower required in the oil industry.

FG reverses Warri PTI upgrade
Headlines Jul 22, 2009 By Daniel Idonor
ABUJA – THE Federal Government yesterday reversed the upgrade of the Petroleum Training Institute, Effurun, Warri to a University status, as approved by the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration.

Also, the government rose in staunch defence of the N14 billion budget for the construction of the Kaduna Petroleum College, saying that those who do not want the project sited in the north should have a re-think as there is absolutely nothing they can do to change government’s decision.

The Government had on June 3, this year, at its FEC meeting approved the sum of N14.5 billion for the upgrade of the 15-year-old National College of Petroleum Studies (NCPS), Kaduna, to the status of an institution of higher learning, to enable it meet up with the current human capital challenges in the petroleum industry.

At its weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting yesterday, the Government approved the sum of N10.4 billion for the construction of a permanent headquarters for the controversial Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, within 18 months.


A cross section of Ministers studying some documents before the opening of the Federal executive Council presided over by the Vice President at the State House, Abuja. Photo by Abayomi Adeshida
With the approval, the Kaduna College is now to be responsible for the training of management manpower needed in the industry while the older PTI, Effurun, Warri would be responsible for training the junior cadre manpower required in the oil industry.

This development undoubtedly has continued to generate widespread condemnation from a cross section of people of the Niger-Delta region.

Fielding questions on these issues from State House Correspondents after yesterday’s meeting, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr. Rilwanu Lukman, declared that that the government of President Yar’Adua has since reversed the Obasanjo decision which upgraded the PTI to a University status because it was unnecessary.

He said “look, look, don’t give us that. That is the mistake which we have made, we have gone ahead and converted the polytechnic and the institution we need for the training of the manpower which we need in our oil industry and not only in the oil industry but also to universities. But everybody wants to obtain a university grade, it does not happen that way”.

According to him, “the people who run the economy of a country are not necessarily people with degrees from universities. This is why we give emphasis to the PTI to train people that we need. Our oil industries are suffering because we don’t have the right manpower.

And here you are talking about converting an institute which has been set up precisely to train people that we need into a university that will train people that we don’t need. How? Come on”.

Reacting to why the government decided to spend such sum on a fledging college in Kaduna at the expense of the ailing PTI in Warri, the Minister said “O, come on. Come on; the place I went to study at the Federal College of Science and Technology in London.

It is the biggest training ground for mining and petroleum engineers, and there is not a drop of oil in London. So the question of the location of the institution to train people is not necessarily a coincidence with where oil resources are.

“Having said that”, he continued, “the Petroleum Training Institute in Warri was set up in the middle of the people, where the bulk of the people who are going to be operating in the oil field come from.

The majority of the people are there, we have also in our local content provision ensure that people from the area where the oil is found are going to be predominate, as a matter of policy, in an employment opportunity.”

He explained that “of course, we cannot say that everybody employed in the oil and gas industry must come from the Niger-Delta region but the majority and the bulk of the people are going to, of course, come to the area. The Petroleum College in Kaduna is not going train everybody in the sector.

It is going to train managers, and without prejudice, it will have a high enough standard and people will from all over Africa will come and be trained. And the PTI Warri is training people from Angola, Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe, but the bulk of this intake must be Nigerians. But we will make it possible for other nationals working with us in the industry to bring in students”.

On the government’s wisdom approving N14 billion for the building of a new office for PTDF a week after it approved N3.9 billion for the furnishing of the new office of Foreign affairs ministry, the minister said: “talking about the N14 billion cost for the construction of the PTDF office, if you want to build a three-bedroom flat you know what the price is.

Here you want more people to be trained in the oil gas industry and you don’t want the PTDF to have a befitting office, an agency that trains not only people in the oil and gas industry but for petroleum technology that we need in the oil and gas.

You don’t want them to have suitable office. What do you want to do? You want them to operate from a flat”? He queried.

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Fhemmmy:
So what are you? biafran?

Yuno:
Quote: Asha80
I have to disagree, remember the wars in the Yugoslavia less than 20 years ago, those wars were strictly ethnic and probably as much of a percent of some of those countries populations as the Nigerian Civil did in Nigeria, and World War 2 had a lot of ethnic motivations as Hitler was decided that his ethnic group should rule the others in Europe and |Europeans killed more than 30 million of each other in that war, Ethnic divisions are human - there is nothing uniquely African about it ,

Ibime:
France and Germany are already part of a country called the European Union. . . . the EU is proof that different peoples can live together very peacefully as long as power is devolved sufficiently to each individual people. . . .

Yuno:
Quote: Asha80
I was wondering when someone might bring up Switzerland, fortunately i have lived in that country and know it well and can disspell some myths about it.

1. Switzerland is not a country of equal German, French, and Italian parts, Switzerland like Austria is an overwhelmingly German-speaking country (more than 70% live in the German regions) and the Germans are economically and politically dominant, the French speakers are a clear minority like the Welsh in the Uk or French Canadians,

2. Also Switzerland unlike Nigeria has a strong  ancient democratic system that has bonded its different language groups for centuries, its not the same as a common language but its another bond that the people of Nigeria lack,

As I said Nigeria is a white man's mistake and no other large country in the world is in a similar unworkable demographic position with very distinct with no common language or religion and no one dominant group to anchor them together


Nigeria must go !!!

Uchebobo:
Posted by: LadyT
Insert Quote
Let it break


Is that the word I'm hearing " Let it break -up"?

Eziachi:
What about Switzerland dear?

Eziachi:
It's like trying to make the French become part of Germany as one country. In a million years it will not work.

agathamari:
again not answering the question.

is there an actual reason or is another one of those my dad sis it so i must do it nonsence?

tkb417:
where did u get that from? what about the Igbos in power?
or are Igbos not in Abuja?
story story

wirinet:
The attack of Lagos can never be justified, as a lot of Lagosians are in support of the agitations of the militants. Attacking a Yoruba State can turn the Yorubas against the Militants and the Niger Deltans, which would not augur well for their agitations. If they try to attack a core Hausa state like kano, i am sure every Niger Delta and even igbo person would be attacked by the indegenes. i think they should restrict their operations to their environments after all that is where all the oil is Located.

Our views on the ongoing militancy in the Niger Delta is usually beclouded by tribal interests and sentiments, the views can be summarized as follows;

The hausa see the agitations of the Niger Delta as an affront on their rights to control the wealth and power in the Nigerian federation, so see the militants and their supporters as criminals, and wishes silently and sometimes loudly that the militants and all their sympathizers to be wiped out, so that they get unfettered access to all the land and oil. After all more hausa owns oil blocks (which they had never visited) than any other tribe.

The Yorubas are more subtle and more divided in their views, some also sees the oil and the land as OUR oil and so should be distributed evenly. some are indifferent and some support the call for fiscal federalism.

The Igbo are in support of militancy to enforce resource control and self determination (even if it is partial) as they had also taken up arms against the federal govt in the past.

The Niger Deltans are in support of resource control and to some extent the militants as they understand the poverty level and underdevelopment of oil rich communities.  

Meanwhile the Hausa and Yoruba elites rulings this country are afraid and against true federalism. They are afraid of convening a conference where the various tribes making up Nigeria would all spleen out their grievances, these elites feel that they would lose out in such an arrangement. So they would try to keep the status quo, no matter the odds.

Fashola warns MEND
Headlines Jul 16, 2009 By Emma Amaize, Emeka Mamah, George Onah, Samuel Oyadongha, Jimitota Onoyume, Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowopejo
LAGOS - IN his official reaction to Sunday’s bombing of the Atlas Cove Jetty by men of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, warned the militants that the action must never repeat itself as the state was quite ready to respond to “this new security threat appropriately”.

Fashola, briefing newsmen on the development after an emergency meeting of the state Security Council condoled with the families of the officers and men of the Armed Forces who were victims of the attack.


Governor Raji Fashola briefing the newsmen after the Lagos State Security meeting at the State House, Marina, Lagos yesterday. Photo by Shola Oyelese
According to Fashola, the attack raises very new questions about what the agitation in the Niger Delta is all about.
He said that Lagos as the headquarters of the national press has been the medium of agitation and as a melting pot of nationalities; the people of Lagos have protected and hosted even displaced Niger Deltans.

He noted that it was quite unfair to have turned on Lagos, the Governor explained that the State itself has been a victim of years of neglect as a former federal capital which continues to serve as the host community to all ethnic communities and as economic nerve centre of the country.

He said: “Is Lagos not also a victim of years of neglect? Is this an agitation without limits, is a friendly and host State fair game?”

“If this (Atlas Cove Jetty bombing) was a mistake, we expect that it must never repeat itself as we will respond to this new security threat appropriately”.

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