₦airaland Forum

dnex:
I'm from Edo state where "Comrade Governor" Adams Oshiomhole is engaging in a lot of activity but no action. Talks about increasing revenue through state taxes, dualizing Airport Road which the House has blocked, and advocating for Yar'Adua to remove all subsidy from petroleum products. The man is doing nothing but talk. Okay, he demolished shop around the Oba Market, but to destroy is easy. The roads are bad, but all he does is complain and besides, he's very busy trying to change all the Reps in the House to AC card holders.

This is the lesson us critics have to learn. While criticizing, we must try to find true solutions because tomorrow we just might become the criticized. Oshiomhole who as NLC president, advocated for petroleum products to be sold for less than N30, now as Governor and a member of President Yar'Adua's team on the Global Crisis, has called for petrol price to reach N150. All hail the "Comrade Governor". A new title which he takes very seriously.

My proposed solution to the problem of poor governance in Edo and Delta is that both states should be merged back to Bendel and the Oba of Benin made the ruler of this state.

As for Ogun state, Gbenga Daniel did well during his first tenure, but at the start of his second tenure, Federal Government auditors revealed that his businesses had lost N200,000,000 between year 2003 and 2007. That might have dampened his spirits and besides, the state assembly is just misbehaving all over the place.

Well, let's see this thread continue. I'm getting good details.

oh dear.

obinna5000:
The songs deserve to be banned especially those of Flavours and Kelly Handsome. There is no need to add vulgar lyrics for your song to sell.

tell that to the kokomaster

MrCrackles:
Whether the solution is in sight or out of it, i hope the issue ges resolved ASAP!

We need to move on

Yes! move on to nirvana  

@grafikdon

Are you the one that did weird mc ijoya's animation video?

maddock:
Whats the hues and cries about Obama visiting ghana first and inviting tanzania to the white house? How is Obama visit to nigeria going to alter the cost of garri to the common man on the street. Its all political stuff, USA anyday, anytime will place Nigeria on a very high pedestal than ghana or tanzania, cos they are gaining a whole from nigeria than from these country.
A lot of times we like looking for trouble when there is actually none, why would anybody assume that US is snubbin Nigeria and even take it further by throwing that question at Clinton.
If not for the bad leaders we have, any countries ignoring Nigeria is doing this at its own detriment. Nigeria as a country has gotten to a level that it cant be ignored by anybody on planet earth and am not saying this cos am patriotic.

Keep dreaming .

GettysBurg:
What cheap publicity does Pastor Adeboye hope to derive from visiting poor kogi state? For a man with international acclaim, this is a ridiculous comment on your part.

With or without, he is currently Nigeria's greatest legend.

Men nigerians have been really brainwashed.

nigeria for you.

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i wonder the igbo man that has money even if it is trader at alaba that has money to send his first son to school that will not do so.

tamme you already have a reputation of been an igbo hater in this forum so you bringing this thread is viewed with suspicion.maybe if brought up by another person insults would not have been flying.

9jaganja:
Hmmm, I'll straight up Jet li his ass before beheading him. Do you think I can't? Take his security officers away from him and give me a cutlass with him alone and I'll drink palm wine with his skull. After washing it with bleach of course cause his ignorance and lack of intellectual reasoning might be as a result of a virus.

9jaganja:
Nigeria is ripe enough to separate NOW!!!!!!!!. The Hausas still want to continue their conquest to sea through propaganda. Thanks to our dear dumb gorrilla Olusegun Obasanjo. My people still remain my people no matter which country they fall into, I'll always keep them as my people!!!!!!

Guy u wan change ur mind now

9jaganja:
This concerns Yorubas and Igbos. We all know we are what is holding Nigeria strong and firm not the Northern Elites and her oppressed population. Yoruabas and Igbos must join Niger Deltans in this fight for struggle against imperialistically minded Northerners. We either break or they let each region control and manage her resources. This to me is the begining of a revolution that will open our eyes.

Igbo------Ewu.
Yoruba-----Ewure. We might have been separated thousands of years ago but that doesn't mean we can't come together again. Abeg, Ejo, Biko. Let's fight for Love, Peace, A true nation and equality for all no matter their skin colour, Language or religion!!!!!!!!!! It's not that hard now, it's just about self conviction; ask yourself if you want others to treat you the way you treat others. No one is blessed or cursed, no good or bad, all for one, one for all. It's so sad!!!

lol

9jaganja:
Anyone who thinks we are not stupid in Nigeria should know that he or she is irredeemably stupid. We are doomed for failure and our leaders are just doing nothing about it. Although a nation is her citizens. I think these leaders have the power to force a positive change on the people but instead they force negative changes on the people. Look at that Idiot that said 20million Niger Deltans could be sacrificed for all of Nigerians. And he was made to Apologize? instead of forced to resign!!!! I hate Northern elites and the dumb soldiers all!!!!!!!! Yaradua will be beheaded when I see him!!!! I wish I do see him face to face with a machete in my hand!!!!!!

bawomolo:
oh lawd, they have ruined the thread.

Ikeyman and becomerich what a combination

redsun:
I am dumbfounded,they were on about sri lanka all this time,but i have not heard nothing about this niger delta issue out side this forum.Or does it mean they don't have correspondents anymore in nigeria?or it is just not relevant?

It is in their interest that 'the militants are crushed' to protect the oil.Do not tell me you do not know the history of nigeria especially the war period.

redsun:
Why is BBC not saying any thing about this recent slaughter in nigeria?it is not making headlines here.

it is not in their interest.

Thankgod it is not the official video because this one is highly poor.

Lots of idiots

MEND Says Its Commando Unit Destroyed Chevron pipeline
Monday, 25 May 2009 09:28 By Jomo Gbomo  E-mail | Print | PDF 
MEND
Press Advisory by MEND: At about 0200 Hrs today, Monday, May 25, 2009, fighters from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) destroyed major trunk lines to effectively put the under-listed flow stations that feed the Chevron tank farm located in Delta state of Nigeria out of operation. The affected flow stations are:


- Chevron (at Alero creek)
- Otunana
- Abiteye
- Makaraba
- Dibi


We borrowed a leaf from the federal government of Nigeria by applying the same measure of treatment the impoverished oil bearing communities suffered in the hands of government troops by ensuring huge collateral damage. This will henceforth  become our standard mode of operation.

All our fighters returned safely to camp 5 annex.

The Joint Task Force has been chasing shadows for the past two weeks and has not achieved any military success. We will continue our cat and mouse tactics with them until oil export ceases completely. 

The JTF did not free the remaining three hostages as being claimed. As promised, we dropped them off at the Oporoza jetty. 

http://www.saharareporters.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2848:mend-says-its-commando-unit-destroyed-chevron-pipeline-&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=18




So where are the body of the militants that are been destroyed

[flash=400,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/wl0Z6epEoCw&feature=channel[/flash]

4 Play:
It's very ''sad'' indeed, the people whose wealth is being plundered are losing the sympathy of their plunderers.

See who is posting this.

Moreover there is a thread on this already

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-228735.0.html

Wey there scofield(the brain behind the escape)

This is getting interesting.

v3nom4eva:
there's 1 for ya,

My friend this person is IGBO.

mbulela:
we also know those who have refused to dumb down their own and their albums have not sold.we know them and they also know themselves.

ill bliss, well done.
okwa that ibo boy

Make illbliss album no end up like them.

Questions For The Next Generation Nigerians
Written by Chukwudi Okeke
Saturday, 23 May 2009
Questions for the Next Generation Nigerians

It is always a thing of concern to remember that Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel Literature Laureate, once described the Nigeria of his generation as a “wasted generation” for failing to live up to expectations. The same generation that bred brilliant minds like Emeka Anyaoku, Bola Ige, Jubril Aminu, Philip Asiodu, Saro wiwa, Omoruyi, the Okigbos and Soyinka himself. Yet the famous writer still termed them” wasted” for failing to pass on the torch effectively.

No other generation of Nigeria can claim to be more prepared to lead than that set were. They graduated from the finest universities abroad and at home. They saw and witnessed everything that was ever good about Nigeria. They were well bred, saw little corruption and taught that a penny earned is worth more than a pound found not to talk of a pound stolen. Employment was never a problem for them as most had jobs waiting for them, with car loans and laced with allocations in government reserved areas. Theirs were lifestyles most of us can only dream of today.

Their military counterparts were no less promising. They were mostly trained at Aldershot, Indian Military School and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, a prestigious institution whose motto remains till today-Serve to Lead.

But this generation, notwithstanding their potentials and promises, couldn’t continue to show the light they were shown. They learnt how to lead but couldn’t lead. From their hands, a promising Nigeria lost its sheen, became up for sale and fell into the hands of the present Ghana-Must Go generation.

If the older generation tried but failed, the Ghana-Must-Go generation failed to try, rather they have succeeded in making a rich nation look poor and our resources look like wastes. [b]They are the present crops of Nigeria leaders. They are our leaders in all walks of life with most state governors and politicians being the most prominent. This generation has done more harm than good to the Nigeria it inherited. They offer little hope of redemption and have elevated money and wealth as the new moral code for the country.

Nigeria has become under their watch, a nation where money is no longer measured by the amount of luxuries it could purchase but the number of human souls it leads astray. It has become a nation where money buys the guilty freedom and extols wealth over decency; a nation where the honest are muscled out of the political equation and denied of every single political space available. And this is indeed the most worrisome trend of this generation. For they are selfishly creating a nation where the size of your pockets determine the outcome of your election; a nation where the honest look weak while the dishonest are portrayed as able and capable.

The Emeka Offors, the Peter Odilis, the Iboris, the Ubas, the Patricia Ettehs are all typical members of this generation. Our Ghana-Must-Go legislators who spend more hours debating on their allowance packages than issues of national importance occupy a special place in this group.[/b]

[b]Enter the next generation, the so called leaders of tomorrow, the Tommy boys and No Long Thing babes, the Yahoo-Yahoo generation aptly represented by those male students who double as cultists and call themselves guy men; the female students who sleep around under the guise of “runs babes” and all trade apprentices who sell a fake good for the price of the original.

They have beautiful slogans for every crime they commit, which makes the dangers all the more difficult to discern. They are short of role models except those beautiful girls that often contest for “Miss This” or “Miss That” and a few male singers that remind them of what the “koko” of the matter is. The Nigeria they know and live in sharply contrasts from the one they have heard of. Their motherland has failed them. They were recruited as political thugs when they asked for jobs and given guns to shoot at one another when they asked for protection.

Corruption, apart from being their only inheritance, is also the only thing they can easily identify their society with. They see it in every area of their lives. They grew up in a society that was heavily corrupt and with no one to correct them; they embraced it. Now they know that cyber fraud pays more than being a university professor. That you can actually make more money than an honest civil servant will ever make in his entire life time just by punching some keys on your computer.[/b]

In their generation, politicians have assumed office without winning elections. They have seen the guilty walk free and the innocent exposed unprotected. Talking of Nigeria, reminds them a country where all manner of evil are permissible; where the leaders feed on the chunks and citizens scramble for the crumbs. A nation where you are all on your own and your survival depends on whatever you can make of your situation.

To imagine how Nigeria will be under these kinds is to understand my worries. For if those who were prepared to lead failed, what then should be expected from those who have barely witnessed any form of good leadership in their life time.

Worth mentioning is however the fact that among this generation, exist a few decent ones who still treasure the endurance of hard work over the easy and fast gains of corruption. But if the big question is how much are they willing to sacrifice to save their country, the bigger question should be how much space will they be allowed? Will there ever be a time when those who have learnt they can win elections by foul means subject themselves to the ethics of free and fair election? Can a dream country ever emerge from a society where those on the wrong side seem to outweigh those on the good?

These are indeed my questions for next generation Nigerians, the same generation I belong to. And seriously think our future looks bleak if one can accurately predict the future from the present. But the future cannot be correctly foretold and this brings me back to Kongi who when asked about Nigeria’s democratic aspirations on BBC had this to say: “I never allow myself to be optimistic or pessimistic. I take Nigeria to be an ongoing project.”

Nna nigeria is f----d

source

Who be this jakumo self?

Abeem:
There is a growing concern about the alarming rate at which Churches are taking over company warehouses in Nigeria. Is it a good or bad omen? There are two sides to this equation. At one side is the economy which is losing the GDP from the company and its laid-off work force and on the other side of the continuum is the Church, which is reaping the gain. Has this dislocation in the economy benefitted/helped the country? Has the country really profited from this spiritual gain?
Let’s hear your argument.

Na today?When there is no light to power the companies that make use of these warehouses the ever increasing no of churches and place of worship need to occupy these places to give people some 'sanity' of mind that life is still worth living in nigeria.

Dis Guy:
hmm if all the 'Daddy' with their mega churches command all their followers to march to Abuja-that's enough for a revolution imo!

hows the sultan more powerful than the obas,Elders etec are you saying their are sitting ducks just collecting monthly pay?

What do you think?Or are trying to pretend/