₦airaland Forum

Wole Soyinka is a social critic and a human right activist i respect so much but i must say am not comfortable with his recent romance with the ruling APC.....else his efforts of many years may fly away with the wind.
The political class in Nigeria and APC in particular,is like a 'valley of mud,where anything that goes inside,will either sink,stink or smells'.

Soyinka was a student of the then university college Ibadan,presently University of Ibadan(U.I),formed Pyrate confraternity with six others and not 'pirate' as mentioned by a forumite.
I do nt have problem with Wole Soyinka or the events he chooses to attend. Am only concerned on the amount Amaechi spent in hosting him,even in the face of obvious economic recession at that time. Soyinka is not a public officer and was just an invited guest but Amaechi was/is a public officer and must account for all the tax payers money he squandered.

Nigeria is a huge joke.......and yet you want your citizenry to be patriotic to a nation that treats them shabbily.
Lets pray we never experience another civil war in this country,because i dont see the soldiers that will be loyal enough to stand against a determined region seeking for either seccession or whatever.
Our military morale is at its lowest ebb.

Propaganda is the hallmark of the APC government,wonder when they will out-grow this election campaign mentality and face reality.
The more shops you destroy,the more thiefs you create in lagos,the more unleavable it becomes,dont forget that 'what happens in vegas stays in vegas'.

Lytech:
Where are the nairalanders comparing GEJ to PMB...
Am sure you are seeing the different between a man who have the love of the masses at heart compare to one who have the love of looting public fund...
BH started just like this,but there is no one to cub them...
To prevent the silly mistake made by past administration,our dear presido act fast....
Kudos to you Mr PMB...
God bless nigeria,and God bless your generation...

some of you are just outrightly st*pid,civilians where massacred in broad daylight and all you have to say,is that your tyranical government acted in good faith. You said if the past regime had acted this way,Boko haram wld ve been a thing of the past,but you systematically forgot to mention that it was this same extra-judicial killing of the Boko haram leaders and followers,that led to the rise of the most dreaded terrorist group(bokoharam).
Indeed one may be forced to concur to the assertion by some people that,Nigeria most likely is a zoo,over 300 Nigerians killed in one short event and everybody turns a blind eye,like nothing happened. Even in the zoo,animal lives are preserved by its care-takers,inspite of the obvious lawlessness of the animals.
Am waiting for such proficiency to be applied by our army in stopping the menacing rampage of Buharis fulanis kingsmen,who has constituted about the 2nd most dreaded terrorist group on planet earth. Who have been on rampage in our rural areas and not Shiites observing their religious right.

Olamide or olamumu,whatever his name is,is surely an empty vessel,he has been wailing and bragging,while the real don kept quiet.
Why asking him to come to mainland lagos when he is living in the same lagos,why nt also ask him to come to your fathers palour,so that you can prove yourself. Cheap coward,when bush mature to jungle,we go no who go stand,real men no dey make noise.Meanwhile,the marvin Don cant help laughing at his infantile ranting,Just wait until 'elemental forces' come after him,for those who understand what i mean.

Meanwhile,op you actually have time to write sarcastically about that local champ,Olamumu!

Op,you dont need to belabour yourself in explaining our igboness to the dumb ass called 'barcanista',he wish he can 'balcanize' us.....the Anioma igbos are nt in any identity crisis,let them wallow in their self deception,while we igbos continue to multiply.Dedicated to Ifeanyi Okowa,Wike et al.

orisa37:
Shehu Sani should be recalled and replaced. He doesn't deserve a senator for Kaduna state.

foolishness is when you reason like El-rufai.

Nigerian government must treat this with caution,disbanning a group that has existed for about 40yrs and with no known history of violence,its both insensitive and dangerous.
How then can we explain the fact that all known terrorist groups in Nigeria,are either sunnis or wahabbi sunnis. Nigeria should not be a fertile ground for proxy war,what happens to freedom of association.
If a sunni,shiite,catholic,pentecostal,atheist etc commits a crime,he should be treated like a criminal but not stereotype the whole group. This is not the best of time to attract another crisis to our nation. Until we learn to treat ourselves with respect,we may never get it right.

Diamond,fidelity,access bank.

Any nation that manipulates itself can never be blessed with the grace of prosperity,the fear of certain regions achieving greater heights than others has continually made the federal government of Nigeria to operate like a clandestine organization
The more they try to work against the development of a section of the country, in other to dissuade the quest for seccession,the more likely people will see reasons for a seperate nation.

Umu igbo jisi'nike!

All in a bid to take over Bayelsa by the ruling party,Nigeria is an 'Animal farm',where everything is possible!.....we are at our lowest ebb ever!

The Nigeria of today,is a true definition of a 'collapsed nation'.....so what is this angry ape talking about.

Ndi nne mama!!! Ka mkpulu obi fa zulu ike na ndokwa!!!

Some one should tell king Salman to stay away from Nigeria,Nigeria is not Yemen or Syria where they are fighting their proxy war!

So pathetic,everybody turns a blind eye when these murderous Fulani herdsmen is committing their usual genocide.....and some one will tell me that Nigeria,is a nation.
If Nigeria does nt put an end to the menace of Fulani cattlemen,then it will put an end to Nigeria.

This is unbecoming of Nigerian soldiers,they must answer for all this killings! The Nigerian militayr is contributing faster towards the quick dissolution of this deformed entity called Nigeria.....This is why no serious nation wants to associate with our military,they are one of the most crude and unrefined military of the 21st century.
From Zaria to the Onitsha,From Rivers to Lagos,the story is the same.

TonyeBarcanista:
Nigeria is technically an Islamic Country by virtue of her OIC's membership. I don't see anything wrong in joining a coalition against ISIS if the military force will wipe out Boko haram. It is unfortunate that we tend to neglect the substance to focus on the form of the package.

You never fail to dissappoint me,where were these Arabs when Boko haram was busy battering and spillaging our land. If there where no ISIS and then Boko Haram keeps attacking us,do you think that the so-called Islamic nations would come to our aid. Except you subscribe to the notion that Arab muslim nations are more important than Africa 'muslim' nations.
When J*njaweed militias was busy committing genocide against fellow muslims who are blacks,in Darfur Sudan. The muslim world kept quiet because they were just black muslims and worth nothing.
My stand on this,is that Nigeria must stay away from such coalition and focus on its joint effort with our neighbouring countries to defeat boko haram.
So because Nigeria was unlawfully smuggled into OIC by thesame PMB/IBB,we should then accept and celebrate the illegality.When we begged the US of A,to sell arms to us,they didnt,sighting flimsy excuses and with the kind of influence Saudi Arabia has on America,they should have helped our cause but they careless.

Yes Obiano is working but that was a huge mistake on his side,should have gone for INNOSON cars,let me believe it was just an over-sight,it shouldnt repeat itself again or else we will give him the Anambra treatment.
Anambra Adigo mma!

Nigeria is a huge joke,how can a secular nation be listed among Islamic and Arab nation.PMB for all i care,is an extremist,even if the christian south-East and south-south decides to get out of this deformed entity called Nigeria. A bigger war may be fought in Nigeria between the christian minorites of middle-belt vs muslims on one hand and sunni's /Wahabbi vs Shittes on the other hand. The reason for this is simply because of the type of leadership style of Mr President,he lacks knowledge of democratic tenets.
APC must be very careful with the way things are going in this country,before it becomes too late.

While other governors are falling over each other for the illegal bail out fund,Obiano never joined them.
While other governors are threatening that they can no longer sustain the #18,000 monthly stipends given to workers as minimium wage, Obiano rather increased Anambra state minimium wage to #22,000.
While some governors are threatening our suffering workers with retrenchment,Obiano is rather planning to employ more.
While others are thinking oil,he is thinking Agriculture.
It is really the best time to be an Anambrarian!!!
Gisike,Anambra adigo mma!!!

sammysammy111:
or re they saying wat d sect did was right? make una make me understand

Is nt a question of whether what they did was right or wrong,Nigerians should not be killed in an extrajudicial manner,there are other ways of handling such civil disobidience. The killings are highly condemnable!

libertyfather:
I don't why any sane Nigerian will still be shouting witchunt, what do they take us for, just imagine way the money that was supposed to be used for development is being use on baseless issues apart from that it suppose to be use for the country security..what I'm seeing now is like the world is turning to something else... I don't know this kind love for party and not for ourselves or our future

you got it all wrong,those of us supporting PDP,are not against an honest probe,which infact will promote transpiracy in the running of govt in Nigeria. But hypocrisy of APC supporters may bring Nigeria to its feet,known corruptn mafias like Amaechi and yes of course Fashola et al where appointed federal ministers and yet every one APC supporter,supported the appointments and they where branded saints,just because they belong to APC,even obvious when case of corrupt practises has been established against them.
Rivers states fund and few other states where used for PMBs presidential campaign and may be that explains the illegal presidential bail out fund dispatched to these thieving governors immediately PMB ascended the throne.
Nigerians want change and fight against corruption,but if done selectively,then it will encourage more corruptn,since all you need to be safe from probe,is to always remain with a ruling party.
We must insist every one that need to be probed must be probed,regardless of statues,including PMBs past dealings,only then we can be blessed with the 'grace of light'.

diannaes:
biafares people are from guinea or Guinea Bissau.
the igbo language are the mixed spoken in Guinea from thier language fulu, malinke, susu, kpelle . they travel from land to land becoz of the war in Guinea a war fight to Portuguese . they cannot handle the fight and they lost it until now Guinea people are speaking Portuguese languages . along the way of thier running from thier country . they found the indigenous place of nigeria and found a natural resources , they fought for the land. but it was a part of landmark of Nigeria. along the war in guinea and poor life they have to fight for the land where they feet stand were its property of nigeria landmark. because of the resources and aiming a good life and future for thier people and when they lost the fight they used their hand to give authority to rule biafares people under nigeria country.

What are you trying to say,pls write in English.

When the price of oil is droping like never before and new oil fields discovered in different parts of southern Nigeria,which are yet to be tapped,Mr. president still allocating our scarce resources for oil exploration in the north.
Yet you come out every day to say Nigeria is broke,scarce money that cld ve been invested in meaningful ventures in Nigeria. Talk about a myopic and an ethnic jingoist.

DPR! Hands of Esau,voice of Jacob.

He is only trying to let the public know that APC which he belongs to,is a big fraud,they tell us every time that Nigeria is broke and yet the jet around the world with reckless abandon,organize money wasting jamborees,while workers gnash their teeths at the end of the month. If we are actually broke as they say,then austerity measures must be observed,so that the workers and the rest of the populace will earn their income,as at when due.

This regime is making payment of salaries seem like a heroic act....for God sake,salaries are not meant to be a privilege given to workers,it is their right,they worked for it.

When ever pay day comes,it's always one excuse or the other from this government,if computer didnt crash then their BVN has not been harmonized.