₦airaland Forum

“Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, many of our investors that suffered losses only lost in terms of value,” she told the delegates. “Their holdings are still intact. It must be stated that even those who lost had earlier made huge profits in form of capital appreciation, dividend and bonuses.”

They can impound your vehicle at any day of the week and at anytime too for illegal parking, obstruction, wrong change of lane, etc. And the charges are as follows:

Fine: 50,000 naira flat
TAx: min 7,500 for housewife or the unemployed. For workers min 60,000 naira
Driving test fee: 5,000 naira
Daemurrage: 500 naira per day

Pls be warned and pass this information to family members and friends.
Fashola is looking for money at all cost to beautify lagos.
THIS IS EXTORTION OF THE HIGHEST ORDER.
BE WARNED O.

Disturbed by the destruction of some oil platforms by militants, the Federal Government is considering sourcing dry gas for power plants from the United States and Argentina.

There is no west or western gloss regarding Mandela's story, his story is a just person fighting for human rights for his people and just so happened to be african. This thread is like asking what Ghandi has done for Indians, or what Martin Luther King has done for African Americans because all of them has fought for human rights for there people but yet somewhere along the line you guys are seeking for a demon in peace and human rights.

You can get birth certificate, marriage certificate, death certificate,fake bank statements, 10 passports with the same face but different names on the same day in Nigeria. where have you been??

he did his part and that is that so what more do you want.

He did his bomb making to fight for freedom as a young man.

Edoji:
EXACTLY!! But who will Bell the Cat?

She collected her cheque, cashed the money and gave the money to a female beggar who was sitting by the street side with her two-year old baby.

Why has Afghanistan been so difficult to conquer?

antibush:
Here is the story you need to know. CIA through the Reagan administration free Taylor to go to Libya as a spy. at that time Ellen johnson and others had just had the failed coup against Doe.As Taylor was getting ready for his African trip from Mexico, he heard about this Liberian group looking for someone to heard this NPFL. Mr woweyou took this man to meet Ellen johnson for the operation. He was chosen. At that time there were already men training in Libya by HB fambulleh which were non nimbaians. But Taylor said we need to involve more people from nimba. But this was how he got on board.He actually met Gaddafi and told him the story. so the both man decided that they will give the CIA a false story. So this why the Americans didn't want Taylor to succeed in his presidency. So when they heard that he was supporting rebels in sierra Leone, they found a way to implicate him, disgrace him and close his mouth. You guys need to do more research then hear say.

The Lancaster Agreement saw Mugabe make two important and contentious concessions. First, he allowed 20 seats to be reserved for whites in the new Parliament, and second, he agreed to a ten year moratorium on constitutional amendments.

In 1982 with Iranian success on the battlefield, the U.S. made its backing of Iraq more pronounced, supplying it with intelligence, economic aid, normalizing relations with the government (broken during the 1967 Six-Day War), and also supplying "dual-use" equipment and vehicles. Dual use items are civilian items such as heavy trucks, armored ambulances and communications gear as well as industrial technology that can have a military application.[46] President Ronald Reagan decided that the United States "could not afford to allow Iraq to lose the war to Iran", and that the United States "would do whatever was necessary to prevent Iraq from losing the war with Iran."[47] President Reagan formalized this policy by issuing a National Security Decision Directive ("NSDD" to this effect in June, 1982.

With the end of the Cold War in the 1990s, Mobutu lost much of the Western financial support that had been provided in return for his intervention in the affairs of Zaire’s neighbours

Noriega worked with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from the late 1950s to the 1980s, and was on the CIA payroll for much of this time, although the relationship had not become contractual until 1967.[4]

Nonetheless, he retained U.S. support until February 4, 1989, when the Drug Enforcement Administration indicted him on federal drug charges.[5]  Noriega claims that on March 18, 1988, he met with United States Department of State officials William Walker and Michael Kozak, who offered him $2 million to go into exile in Spain.
The U.S. saw Noriega as a double agent (his State Department nickname was "rent-a-colonel"[citation needed]) and believed that he gave information not only to the U.S. and U.S. allies Taiwan and Israel, but also to communist Cuba. He also sold weapons to the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the late 1970s.[7]

No2Atheism:
The highlighted point is the same mistake that most Africans and black people tend to make when it comes to Europeans or Arabs.

- Europeans are always protecting their own interest no matter wat, hence please do not be deceived Europeans never do anything without benefitting Europe in the long or short term, even if it means it causes loss of life of Africans.
- History of the past 500 years shows that the leopard know as the europeans have not really changed their spot, they have only modernised it.
- Charles Taylor was never supported and invested in so that he could save Africa, He was supported and invested in so that he could realise the agenda of europeans in Africa.
- CIA is not a good samaritan, they were created to protect military and commercial interest of a select group of people ruling the Western World, the day Africans wake up and realise that and then stop giving them opportunities is that day we would start reducing the occurence of dictators in Africa.
- Charles Taylor just like Saddam Hussein was only supported as long as he was useful to further and propagate European interest in the countries where he was used in.
- If there is no buyer then there is no market, there was a market and Charles Taylor was used to ensure the chain of supply was maintained as far as African resources was concerned.

The fight in ODi was declared by the MENDs and what OBJ did was to stop the insanity, please note that i am not an OBJ fan, i cant stand the guy at all.
Bush went to the UN before the invasion and wasnt just done anyhow, although, he never got all the support of the players as needed, but UN was aware of it and not just some bomb flying overnight without warning.

JustGood:
We listened to the news after Bible study and it was funny how BBC chose to emphasise that a Russian-built aircraft. I never heard crash news with so much emphasis before. gosh

Obama and Zimbabwe
By Taiwo Akerele

I WISH to respectfully disagree with President Barack Obama of the United States on the true cause of the Zimbabwean economic and political crisis. During his recent state visit to Ghana, he was of the opinion that the economic crisis in Zimbabwe was not caused by colonialism but by bad leadership. While I agree with him that President Robert Mugabe has become an embarrassment to the liberation struggle and an impediment to the emergence of true democratic culture in the Southern African country, we all recall that at the heart of this crisis is the land question?

For many years the white minority that ruled Zimbabwe cannibalised and appropriated to themselves the productive agricultural landscape in the whole of Zimbabwe leaving the black majority to become slaves in their own fatherland. As if this is not an evil policy, enough to cause disenchantment, the British Government agreed to finance the land re-distribution policy as part of the negotiation in the advent of the historic independence in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

It is an open knowledge that for the umpteenth time, the British Government reneged on this agreement to the consternation of the African Union and particularly the Zimbabwean Government and its people. In the process, there arose a serious internal insurrection although tacitly supported by the Zimbabwean Government against the white minority holders of the land and in its wake severe sanctions were meted out against the Government amidst violence.

It is very unfortunate and a revisionism of history that the whole world supported by the powerful Western media and new broadcasting technology, rather than condemn the British Government for reneging turned against Robert Mugabe who rightly was fighting for his people. Again whether the strategy is right is another issue entirely.

Against this background, it came to me as a rude shock for President Obama who is an apostle of transparency and equanimity of purpose to outrightly condemn African leaders in our soil and left the oppressor Europe to enjoy their loot from Africa amidst poverty, perpetual economic down-turn and fake boundaries in West Africa, Rwanda, Burundi and Morrocco.

Today in Africa, millions of people are living together against their wishes, this accounts partly for the ethnic clashes all over the continent and this was manifested in the genocidal war in Rwanda, the perpetual religious crisis in Nigeria and the contradictions in Cameroon where one part of the country speaks French the other half speaks English. To Europe and America, the African continent is a commodity that must be shared amongst them for full exploitation- Where is the United Nations?

Because ignorance is not an excuse for breaking the law, like President Bill Clinton, Obama should settle down and read the works of Walter Rodney on "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" Claude Ake's Democracy and the Crisis of Underdevelopment in Africa and of course compare the situation with Singapore as captured in the work of Lee Kuan Yew " Singapore: From Third World to the First". I am sure these will give him an idea of the difference between what it takes for a people to control their destiny and for a people's destiny to be controlled by others.

For me the African situation is beyond rhetoric and Presidential gallivanting and speaking from an Olympian height amidst claps and cheers from a listening political class who in the words of Claude Ake have no development in their agenda in the first place.

In unmistaken terms, it must be stated that most African leaders have messed up severally post-colonial rule and squandered the opportunities that clearly came to us as a continent to develop and liberate our people from poverty, disease and illiteracy and others too numerous to mention. In Nigeria we have experienced "strong man" rule as noted by President Obama who attempted to change the constitution rather than strengthen institutions. In Gabon and Zaire, Presidents have died in power trying to equate the destiny of the countries to their own existence and in North Africa, gerontocracy still reigns supreme.

However, the Zimbabwean situation is a classic case of the battle of a people to take over their God- given land. What they do with it is another page for history to foretell. And for America, I hope the analysis of Mahomoud Mandani in his book "Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism or Francis Fukuyuma's treatise on the End of History and the last man is not manifesting already?


Akerele is with the Center for Values in leadership Lagos

It is too small to have 36 states, it should only have 5 regions so that the country's resources would go round and so that the country would be more governable.

Another problem is that everything is so centralized that's why nothing works

true, the CIA put him there,but  the guy deserves to be hanged for his crimes against humanity.

Fhemmmy:
What is the worth of Charlse Taylor and what was the source.
Was he a war lord or not?

Fhemmmy:
The chair seems to be for 2 people.
the guy hates himself sha.

Fhemmmy:
This is one waste of money, that guy shd be executed and not even waste money trying him.
He is a warlord.
he is a criminal.
Enlisted Kids as army to kill people
Stole billions from the wallet of his nation.
What more?

In a dramatic day of testimony, former Liberian president Charles Taylor told of his 1985 escape from an American maximum security jail with alleged United States government help, only days before a failed US-backed coup attempt to overthrow the then Liberian government.

With his prison cell unlocked by a US prison guard late one night in November 1985, Taylor walked out of the maximum security area of the Plymouth County Correctional Facility in Massachusetts, he told the Special Court for Sierra Leone today. Taylor said he was escorted by the same guard to the minimum security area. Tying a sheet to a window, Taylor climbed out the window and over the prison fence, where a car containing two men was waiting to whisk him to New York, he said.

Taylor told the court that he believed the guard who set him free “had to be operating with someone else.” Taylor also said he assumed that the car that took him to New York “had to be a [US] government car” because the men driving him feared he may be “picked up” if Taylor changed cars to be with his then wife, who had driven to meet the escape car with money to get Taylor out of the country.

Taylor was in US custody in 1985 pending a US government decision on an extradition request by the Liberian government on charges of embezzlement

Charles Taylor escaped jail in the US, launched war in Liberia and gained power.