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 Politics › Re: Is Ogun State Becoming The Kidnap Capital Of The South West? by banku: 10:44pm On Nov 20, 2012*. Modified: 11:13pm On Nov 20, 2012 |
You are very dishonest. I remember this case very well, what you hid was that the nasty woman was well connected in the town to very powerful people and to an Igbo man that exploited her nursing background while both got rich. These are baby factories for money exploiting young girls. The ogun State problem are kidnappers of rich people. I am still looking for the real source of this story. If you have it, post it and be honest about it. Baby mama: You asked for one,I will give you one with hopes that you can see that crime knows no tribe |
| Politics › No Where Else To Run To by banku(op): 10:34pm On Oct 30, 2012 |
NO WHERE ELSE TO RUN TO |
| Romance › Friendship For Sex Or Sex For Friendship by banku(op): 1:14pm On Oct 26, 2012 |
Friendship For Sex Or Sex For Friendship Why do many young people reject parents’ advice on marriage? Characters determine some parents’ choice of partners. Behavior falls below grace out of sexual indiscretions. Most reasonable people would marry their friends not a stranger after a one nightstand. Yet, some of us marry complete strangers based on recommendations of their friends. If they were so good, our friends would marry them. Breaking up is even harder to explain to little kids. There are men and women shopping for friends they can have sex with occasionally. Such agreements can be forged between willing partners. The problem is that most people portray their best impression, appear to be sincere to get the first date and may have overpromised in the process. In a one night stand, it is generally understood to be that. If it turns into regular sex, one of the partners may freak out. Depending on certain stages in life, one may seek friendship in order to get regular sex from a partner but at another stage, friendship is more important than the sex itself. It must be realized that sex is one of the basic needs in life like food and shelter. Sexual relationship before marriage is no more a big deal. Family is. It is one of the reasons for healthy intercourse for the purpose of accepted procreation, not only for recreation. In African polygamous society, some of the men still cheat and it is estimated that one third of married women cheat as well. These statistics may not be reliable since the economy, in Nigeria for example, has decimated the buying power of middle class men and many women are attracted to the only rich men left in town, but those taking DNA tests for visa and other reasons reported results that showed half of the women had children that do not belong to their husbands. The worst victims are Diaspora African men still thinking women remained what they were when they left Africa. The men that have left their wives abroad come home and settle with their African women only to be shocked by their promiscuity. In the case of those that come back home to take wives, they found out that some of the African women abroad are even better than the “pure” ones they brought back in 419 fad rush. In the Wall Street Journal of 10/19/12 Prof. Drexler gave some insight and statistics in United States as women disloyalty are fast catching up with men. Over 19% of married women and 23% of men cheat. Women do it for the same reason men do. They sought out their men to validate their attractiveness especially when in doubt, connection and emotional attachment they lost at home, ego and some are just generous as some men. It seems that the number of men desiring a fling is going down while the number of women is hitching up. Even more interesting is the number of women, 77% that crave personal space compared to 58% of men. Some 35% want regular night out with their friends compared to only 23% of men. The workplace also provides more exposure. While we seek sexual interactions, most of us expect certain responsibilities in case of eventualities and consequences. Women are generally more demanding in this regard than men since the nurturing falls more on them especially during the nine months of pregnancy. Once pregnancy is out, it becomes more or less a shared responsibility. The women still juggle two jobs. Though, some men have decided to be house-husbands. Beyond the consequences of pregnancy, sexual pleasure and companionship are so intertwined, sorting them out could be precarious. If all we want is sex, there are trades that specialize in that. If all we want is friendship, we can seek that from anybody that is interested. But sexual friendship is more than either. It is the type of life relationship that is supposed to serve both men and women conveniently when and as needed. Unfortunately, when and as needed, may not be in equal desires from both partners. One may be urging for more sex than the other, just as friendship may not be equally reciprocated. Even if it is, it may wear out after some time creating deficit between supply and demand. This is only one of what may lead to dissatisfaction. There are other characters that may only manifest itself after a period of friendship, apart from sex. Since most women would marry their husbands again if they had to do it over. One of the partners may exhibit insatiable need for caring while the other may demand excessive sexual needs. It is difficult to satisfy a man or a woman that wants sex or seek attention excessively. In cases where the urge or need cannot be controlled, a partner may be tempted to satisfy his or her need by expensive, immoral or sometimes by illegal means. When there is no basic need to satisfy, compulsive behavior controls habits. This temptation to seek pleasure by any means and regret it after each episode may not be different from someone getting emotional high through drugs but remorseful trying to stop after each high, only to fall back when aroused. It happens when we eat, drink out of greed or engage in excess sexual activities. Stage of no return is when one gets sick or noticed by family members, society norm or legal troubles, ruining some lives. There was this lady married from Nigeria that used to tell foreign wives that everything was forbidden in Africa. A woman was not supposed to do this. She actually hated foreign wives. It took her a few years to come out, and became worse than the foreign wives she condemned. Of course imported babes gave various reasons for cheating: including they were married too young, forced, were lied to or never loved him. Some of these are actually true, especially for men that married women way above their “class”. The first step to sexual relationship is usually friendship, but as it progressed, it might be difficult to keep it that way. That is why it is better to marry your best friend, instead of strangers. You may even find out that you were happier just as friends with or without sex. But, if your best friend is attached to someone else, their partners may feel cheated or jealous of the emotional support, loyalty or confidence they shared with others. Author: Farouk Martins | October 24, 2012 http://www.ngex.com/news/public/article.php?ArticleID=2323 |
| Politics › Re: Africans Created Religions To Civilize And Enhance Tolerance by banku: 7:05am On Sep 25, 2012 |
Prof. Abimbola has said something along the line of Odumare creating life in Africa but nobody believes him. They even ridicule his teaching as that of Babalawo. At the same time, the same people credit Adam and Eve story as credible gospel truth. Science support African creation but Africans support Bible creation outside of Africa. If science supports Africa as the origin of man, he must have created religion. However, many Africans will rather die with Holy Bible and Koran in their hands than be caught dead with their own God. |
| Politics › Celebrate Nigeria’s Demise With Seed Money by banku(op): 3:12pm On Sep 16, 2012 |
DANCE WITH SEED MONEY TO CELEBRATE NIGERIA’s DEMISE September 14, 2012 If you do not know where you are coming from and how you get here, you may not know how to correct your step and where you are going. In order to understand how Nigeria got these types of failed politicians leading us, we have to realize they were loafers that depended on governments all their life. Their mission was different from those leaders that got us Independence. They never worked for or earned a kobo. It started to go wrong after Gen. Gowon became complacent and reneged on handing over power to civilians. He had to prop himself up with both military and civilian guides that would never question his legitimacy. These civilians, after the resignation of Chief Awolowo encouraged him to rule indefinitely. Palace coup eased in his colleagues. We went downhill from then on. It got so worse, we now think Gowon’s time was the best. Military graduates and civilians depending on only generous scholarship were pampered and never learned to make a clean living. In fairness, the most successful ones in those days stayed away from politics since only a few were greedy. Who would believe that the cohorts of some of the successful ones never learned and that they were those that later misruled the Country. Of course they had help from ambitious military loafers. It is not unusual to celebrate death after a well spent life, even if young in some cultures but not a worthless disintegrating life. No matter how bad a country is, the people may be one of the most productive; but ruled and mismanaged by egocentric leaders. It is becoming obvious to most people that despite lip service old warriors pay that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for the Country, they mean they want to bleed it cold. We told our graduates that their initial income was seed money to save for good return, invest in some resources that would appreciate or enhanced their ability to grow. In the case of lucky young women and men with such offers, it was their biggest treasure. By the time they got married, they had a cushion to rely on. When retired or if fired before then, there was something to fall back on. The same was true of our country. Loyalty and duty of a good citizen to a dear country is missing these days in some countries and ours is a good example. It is difficult to set any income aside for the rainy day, pension, oil subsidy, housing contribution etc. Raiders would be watching it like hawks in order to steal it. Put as many people as possible for check and balance, they would share it amongst themselves. Our loyalty is to money not people we serve. The way Nigerian politicians celebrate with our seed money, you will think Africa is paved with gold, diamond, milk and honey. You are not far from right, Africa is loaded not only with gold, diamond, milk and honey but also with skillful human resources that have excelled everywhere else but in Africa. There is this great disconnect from reality in putting resources and people together by competent and long sighted administrators. Most of the local university graduates were very proud of their schools and never feel they had to compete with foreign graduates. They were so proud, they had to prove their worth to their parents that sent them to school as cocoa, groundnuts farmers and coal miners. Many also shunned politics for better jobs. They open shops as doctors, lawyers, accountants and took special pride in the noblest profession as teachers. Ipa npa ra e, olohun npa ja! Those fleecing the Country like a dog are actually fleecing themselves to death, slowly but surely. No matter what they put in place for their sons and daughters and their following generation they swear will never be poor again, will bear frustration when they are kicked out of other countries. Some of them forgot what happened after the civil war when their children could no longer get money from home. Those children that were living above their means because they got steady stipend from home, lived big with friends. They had the latest cars, mustang and the most beautiful girlfriends in their crowd. While most of us were living in rooming houses, they were living in apartments. As soon as Government scholarships dried up, their friends left and they started doubling up with those of us in rooming houses. Many of these students had no choice but to look for gburu. Hey, no one was so kind to feed others for free. The most unfortunate part was that some of them could not combine school and work. They either work to feed themselves or rely on money from home to go to school. Those that became successful learned important lessons. The rest of us that finished school got recruited back home. That was 70s and early 80s. When the President said he would pay any price for Nigeria to work, he meant well. He threw money at election to buy the best democracy there is. The problem is, Nigeria throws any amount of money to solve problem thinking that the more money spent, the better the result. It is the wrong mentality, which is why we hardly get expected results. In spite of all the money spent, we are moving backwards not forward. Therefore, when we talk about paying any price, we do not mean personal or individual sacrifice with our blood or our life, we mean money as if it is unlimited. Foreign services and contractors are quite aware of our taste and needs, waiting for our orders. Anyone that has seen ThisDay Newspaper Extravaganza with the invitation of foreign heads of state’s million dollars payment just to appear while workers’ salaries go unpaid, knows. Usually awards and accolades are reserved for heroes and people whose deeds are worthy of emulation for others to learn from. No African is more obsequious when it comes to getting awards as Nigerian politicians and their fellow brats for literally killing our Country. These Nigerians will go anywhere, at any length and at any cost to be congratulated for personal achievement in sinking Africa’s most promising ship. Nowhere is it more obvious than Nigeria where they wear their ignoble names like a badge of honor dance to it with praise singers and the Government dishes out awards to them for jobs well done. The job of leaving their Country divided and worse than they met it is their joy. If nobody tapped them on the shoulder, it did not mean nobody cares. - Written by Farouk Martins Aresa - http://africanheraldexpress.com/blog7/2012/09/14/dance-with-seed-money-to-celebrate-nigerias-demise/ |
| Politics › Tinubu’s Bow To Buhari – Political Suicide Or Joke by banku(op): 6:12am On Aug 29, 2012 |
20120828-234728.jpg Action speaks louder than voice. Nobody knows for sure what Buhari and Tinubu are negotiating on a one to one basis. Usually, negotiation details are ironed out between larger groups before it is passed on to the public. Tinubu bowing to Buhari has revealed what Southwest political thinkers suspected all along. Tinubu would throw his birth mother under the truck to save his neck, keep his loot and even get a respectable post. Buhari is seen as a cleaner politician than Tinubu. But Buhari may bring back past doubts about $2.8 billion and Petroleum Funds with this association. While Tinubu may serve the purpose of bad boy of the Yoruba sent to fight others’ bad boys, his anointment as the genuine leader in the Southwest is wanting. The fact that Tinubu has risen to such a power broker says more about the difference between meritocracy and corruption in Nigerian than anything else. How can one blame Buhari? Money made anyhow is worshipped in Nigeria, money no dey smell. When you have someone with the credential and caliber of Bisi Akande and Segun Osoba under Tinubu because that is where money flows from, Yoruba and those that understand their politics must wonder if the curse of Tai Solari on Omoboriowo he turned to Owoboriomo is working again. Tinubu only negotiates for Tinubu and anything else comes second. Ask Nuhu Ribadu. There are more implications beyond the bowing since most people do not appreciate their leaders bowing to other leaders. Obama’s bow to the king of Saudi Arabia and Diya flat out to Abacha for his dear life easily come to enquiring mind. To avoid such undue advantages, legal scholars use implied covenant of good faith and fair dealings to check overbearing master/servant negotiations deceit. But don’t be fooled, Yoruba also use it to aggrandize, as OBJ did to Ebele. Buhari is very proud of his Fulani ancestors from Northwest Africa but Nigeria’s Fulani claim direct relationship to Saudi Arabia. So the analogy to King of Saudi Arabia is not farfetched. It is not a secret that sometimes Muslims in the North and South may even disagree on the rules around the end of fasting period while Fulani adhere strictly to those of Saudi. Fulani’s loyalty and advice or order is unflinchingly from there. Yoruba culture may adapt religions but never adhere wholesale. Yoruba demand certain respect from a junior to a senior party just as many cultures expect a bow to seniors and superiors. Some protocols demand it as well, as men bow or the ladies knell down for the Queen. By that view, Buhari as an elder statesman, is older than Tinubu. One would expect that normally Buhari would do the same for Obasanjo or his seniors. I doubt it. It is deeper than that. Alimi, a Fulani came to Yoruba land and through some chicanery on the part of Fulani and Yoruba General, an Emir was installed in Ilorin. The details about it go beyond this article. Nevertheless, Yoruba has never recovered from that history. How and when after Ilorin, Yoruba decided that they will rather die than bow flat for Fulani is left to historians to sort out. But Tinubu should’ve known much better. He could not, because he is blinded by greed and ambition. If African history guides us in Nigeria, we should be looking for ways to work with those who see themselves as pure Hausa in the North rather than those that claim to be nothing but Fulani. The Hausa in the North need a renaissance to gain their rightful place in the Country of their origin. All the alliances with Fulani have not worked in the past because ratification depended on Fulani royals. In spite of the many so called Fulani heads of state from the North, most of the talikawa have not benefited from their reign. Since the Hausa make up the majority in all the Hausa states, most of them are talikawa but most if not all the royalties are Fulani. Aminu Kanu, a Fulani worked hard to uplift the talikawa and return power to them to no avail. Many of them still troop to the South begging for alms while many Fulani reigned. Why then go through Fulani alliance to benefit Hausa talikawa when pure Hausa leaders can do more for themselves? If any Southern leader is serious about alleviating poverty in Nigeria as a goal, seek out pure Hausa leaders, not a few Fulani that do not deliver or consider themselves Nigerians first but bound to preserve their royalty and religious adherence to Saudi Arabia. Another Fulani alliance with Tinubu, only entrenches the status quo. Tinubu bowing to Buhari is an action that speaks volumes by revealing the agreement they are working on. Buhari may have felt since Tinubu’s party is in control of most of the western states plus Edo, a combination of them with his states in the North will assure him the Presidency. Since he tried with a pastor once and failed, he has gone to the wrong politician this time. So Nigerians could not help but ridicule Tinubu’s bow. There are enough fears out in the political field that any alliance between Southwest and the North cannot be good for other Southerners. Though, each block in the South has allied with the North in the past, except Southwest. As a result, everything from monkey wrench to rocket is thrown in the path of Tinubu and Buhari. Both of them are desperadoes. The bow reveals they want and love power by any means possible. This fear is misplaced because neither Tinubu nor Buhari can deliver their constituency. The overriding goal of each will “scatter” whatever brings them together. Another factor is how Jonathan plays his cards before election. He has disappointed many people. It is yet to be seen if he could resurrect their confidence. If he cannot, the Southwest must be putting finishing touches by now to a leader that enjoys wider support amongst Yoruba. - Written by Farouk Martins Aresa - http://africanheraldexpress.com/blog7/2012/08/28/tinubus-bow-to-buhari-political-suicide-or-joke/ |
| Politics › Abandoned Properties Still Unresolved by banku(op): 5:49pm On Aug 15, 2012 |
ABANDONED PROPERTIES STILL UNRESOLVED There was this older man that came to graduate school in the 70s and some of us wondered why he would leave Nigeria to study at his age. Little did we know that same age would catch up with us fast. He told us he was getting ready for the future. We later learned he was a big time private physician in Nigeria that lost it all in a city close by his hometown. This is 2012 and he has not recovered his properties in his very old age. Credit must be given to those credit is due. Many properties have been returned after the war all over Nigeria and the western part of the Country returned all abandoned properties to their owners. Even most of the rents collected were put in escrow for the owners and in some cases, owners went to court and got back their past rent or evicted free loader occupiers. There are stories that are best left untold and buried. Indeed, raising it incur the wrath of the victims and their dispossessors. It should not prevent people of goodwill or activists from pursuing it. When brothers and sister gather into one room and cannot tell one another the truth, they are fooling themselves, according to a local proverb. Yet, many have moved on or even gone back and rebuild.* The corrupt atmosphere in Nigeria these days has made matters even worse. As for properties that were not returned immediately after the war owners may encounter a harder process in repossessing their properties. It has never been easy but today, these owners have to deal with desperadoes whose only goal in life is to dupe their fellow men. They work harder at dispossessing others than they do working for their own. Therefore, it is a shame that we hardly hear about abandoned properties anymore when in fact people are still struggling to get them back. It is not a popular story and the numbers of those owners that are still alive are dwindling but their children, like other children fight over yet to be claimed properties. Before they fight one another or spend money in court on lawyers, some have to consider what returns the properties give. It may be easier on young men then to discount their loss but very difficult for an old man at the point of pension. Indeed, our friend or father that said he came to study was probably looking for something to occupy his mind before going crazy. It is easier for this writer to understand because he has got to the age of the old man then. We still hear about him but we never stopped wondering if he would get his property back. There are so many situations we realize in our older age especially when we get to the age of our parents. We wondered in amazement at what our parents went through in the same situations. It is even more so for those of us that were rascals to deal with. So abandoned properties are not just material wealth, they are pensions of those that worked very hard in their younger days, to take care of families and children. There are many ways of looking at this situation without being indifferent. Children of the very rich are divided on what to do with their parents’ properties. Many left them to their siblings and started a new way of life on their own. But those that remain in the Country catching hell of a time, stand by their parents’ inheritance. There are those that are not even around to lay claim to anything or give away their share of the rent. The difference is that if you leave your inheritance to your siblings, it is your choice but not when abandoned properties are taken away by those that are not entitled to them. It is a spite in the face to watch others claim what is not rightfully theirs but yours. The personal problems facing many have reduced their sympathy for others, especially if it is about someone else belonging of more than 40 years ago. Instead of arguing about who won the civil war by local champions of Fulani, Yoruba or Igbo, we should focus on the fact that the war ended and abandoned property returned to the rightful owners. The Igbo won the war before it even started in the hearts of Nigerians since it was their blood that were spilled in greater numbers. But Ojukwu, as a typical Nigerian, did not know when to stop. Whatever, less than Aburi accord, he won. Nevertheless, the spirit of returning abandoned properties in the old Western Nigeria must be cultivated in other parts before we can adequately heal the wounds of war. We see different and more horrendous reasons for war these days greater than what led to war then. We are reduced to the point where a terrorist, Alhaji Dokunbo that was given prominence by a meeting he held with Obasanjo, warned Hausa and Igbo about Yoruba. There are still many abandoned properties around his areas but there are none on any soil in Yoruba land. If President Ebele has the balls, since he has the power, let him return all the abandoned properties to their owners starting from his village. Nigerian civil war ended in 1970, we are still on abandoned properties in 2012. Unfortunately, owners of those properties still do not want to be reminded of who their friends are. Oh well, well! Dokunbo may and may not reflect the thinking around President Ebele as the traditional ally of the North afraid of being displaced by his Yoruba cousins. It tells you how fast people forget their benevolent ascension to power. There is nothing to fear about the Yoruba but the fear of your own shadows. If Tinubu’s ally scared you to death, Yoruba consider him a devil, but that may be exactly what you need; fire for fire! The Yoruba spirit of returning abandoned property remains as part of accommodating culture for anybody to tap, may you be Hausa, Igbo, Efik or Beron as long as you do it gracefully. Every Nigerian knows it, use it and enjoy it, but they do not want to acknowledge it. *The well is running dry amongst the younger generations that do not understand or even care about the relationships between each ethnic group. Farouk Martins Aresa* http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/72163-abandoned-properties-still-unresolved.html |
| Politics › Ciroma: A Sacred Cow Mocking Us - To Hell by banku(op): 11:20am On Aug 04, 2012 |
Ciroma: A Sacred Cow Mocking Us - To Hell Adamu Ciroma fits perfectly into an undercover profile of someone above par. He is an elite that sees himself as a royal Fulani and elder statesman no one would associate with terrorizing the helpless in a civilized society. But the real profile of the most devastating international terrorists is hidden under the same cloak of either a member of the upper class or of the highest religious saints that would never be suspected of abusing children. He was one of the illustrious evils that openly promised fire, hell and brimstone if Ebele became the President. Voila, he did and Boko Haram broke deadlier. Not only did Ebele admit that he was caught off guard and destabilized by Boko Haram, their victims had known that helplessly. Yet, the sponsors of Boko Haram are daring anyone to come after them. No matter how you try you cannot appease those whose only goal is that you fail. Each time Nigerians cry about a disaster, the following disaster turns the previous ones into child-play. We are told that we have to fight for security before corruption. The fact is corruption is the root of our insecurity. It is now a game of chicken or the egg. Rulers by tulasi created insecurity for corruption to flourish. They are burning down the whole Country, starting from the North where women and children are losing their lives. Security of life and property, religion or corruption has been merged into one and the same act. Anyone trying to fool us that one has to be solved before Ebele and his team could deal with the others is either fooling himself or does not know what he is talking about. If the strategy is to demonstrate that the Government cannot be destabilized or moved by threat of terror, the potential victims do not see chaos as a normal way of life. The Northern part of the Country has been paralyzed with fear and surprise attacks in churches and mosques. Army and Police officers have been targeted apart from civilian women and children, yet nobody has detained Ciroma for questioning. If perpetrators of these deadly acts know that they are untouchable elites, those that admire them would not be deterred from following the footsteps of their mentors. Ebele is still infiltrated? So far this old man that looks like death itself is still walking freely in Nigeria. General Aziza wanted some of these highly placed individual interrogated including former head of state General Buhari. As far as we know, Ebele chickened out. Each time they tell us there is no sacred cow, we know there are many. It is true that one has to get reliable intelligence before you interrogate a head of state. Briefings got from UN, US or who? It makes us wonder if Abacha had more intelligence on Obasanjo than Ebele has on Ciroma. The public had information that Babangida has terrorists in every military organization in Nigeria and actually sent his boys to terrorist schools in Libya where Boko Haram and MEND trained together. This is public information available on the internet. If you cannot believe everything on the internet, it is a valuable source. The domestic terrorist attack in Oslo Norway by Anders Breivik that killed 92 children because he wanted to save Europe from multiculturalism and that of Timothy McVey that had a beef against US Government, and so bombed building in Oklahoma City. Did those horrify us as Boko?. What they have in common with Ciroma’s boast, is the deadly planning without being suspected along the way because of their privileged status. Lately, IBB and OBJ have offered to come to Ebele’s rescue but of course at a price, of a pound of flesh. These two men have plunged Nigeria into chaos for about twenty years and they are still waiting for President Ebele to ask them before they tell us what they know. In many societies that are going through half of what Nigeria is going through in the Northern part of the Country, it would be seditious to suppress such information. No matter what you think about how well the President is functioning, there are people working day and night to give him a bad name so that they can hang him like a dog. If their motive is to throw him out of office before his time, they have Pastor Bakare to predict it. The irony is that the intelligence unit is more willing to interrogate a preacher on the pulpit that predicted OBJ was going to die in 1999, than confront who inspired it. We have to wonder if President Ebele is appeasing the real culprits of gloom and doom in Nigeria knowing that no matter what he does, they want him out. These are the same people that asked for the resignation of his security chief and got it. They must have been inadvertently reinvigorated with a signal to others not to mess with them. He must learn that his adversaries will never wish him well; they made him honorary Boko Haram member. The fear is Ebele may be digging his own grave by surrounding himself with those he thinks are the real shakers and movers of the Country, for peace’s sake. If Abacha could dare them by removing Dansuki, Obasajo could retire and dare them by tearing up some agreement on strategic positions in his cabinet, Ebele with Aziza can call off their bluff. You will never please a bully by sucking up to them, you confront them head-on. All the cries of Ijaw about conspiracy to impeach, like those before him, or weaken Ebele can only work for lack of sustainable strategies to move Nigeria towards its potentials. If the people he leads see accountability, progress and changes in their individual lives as a result of what he puts in place, Ebele will remain the President. But so far, he has not lived up to what was expected of him as a thinker with a unique qualification. This is not about his PhD, but about the thinking faculty he used to earn what everyone does not accomplish. Education is the one that structures our mind. If it is not applied to solve daily pragmatic problems, it becomes useless. Actually, Nigerians will use it against you. Even those without common sense claim education is not common sense. If they had common sense, they would seek education. Ebele did and must be decisive. Reactions http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/farouk-martins/ciroma-a-sacred-cow-mocking-us-to-hell.html |
| Politics › Nigerian Democracy Cannot Capture Abuja Or Africa by banku(op): 5:01pm On Jul 28, 2012 |
Nigerian Democracy Cannot Capture Abuja Or Africa – Once upon a time, we were told there was a virgin land of Abuja where there were no indigenes or settlers. It was going to be the best place for the capital of Nigeria. We accepted a bloody lie. There are no mumu left in Nigeria and they are now demanding a state of theirs to be called GBAKKA. This notion that opportunistic influx of economic fortune grazers can deny indigenes of their rights by democracy is freaking Nigeria out. Today we have not learnt much, have we? We forget that the war was triggered by 10% kickbacks corrupting our polity with absolute power to rig elections by impunity. Abuja builders, imagine well managed grazing management technics with desert reforestation. The wonderful delicate symbiosis of Hausa known for their honesty, Igbo for hard work and Yoruba for accommodation are slowly disintegrating. It was how we won the hearts of fellow Nigerians and fellow Africans. Nigeria was the bread basket and our generosity went beyond South Africa. We rested on our laurel and became complacent. We did not build on the prowess of Chike Obi or Awojobi for African engineering giant of the future. Nigeria discovered oil since the fifties but in the twenties we cannot build a refinery locally. While signing all these contracts to build all these mega projects, there was no enforceable binding agreement that we wanted Nigerians trained, we wanted technical schools modeled on these projects, so that our people can build their own in ten or twenty years without paying others in fifty years to come and build another one. Instead of creating enabling locations for the most informed or hard working Africans in their individual villages and cities, we have turned them into economic refuges all over the world; and other Africans that used to welcome Nigerians with accolades are turning against them. Nigeria had all it takes to make it unique as the worldly pride of Africans. If Nigeria cannot save itself, how can it save the black race? Diaspora Africans asked. African countries look at us as the most fortunate “spirits” that ever lived but can never get its acts together for other Africans to follow. Without any special skills, anybody can buy and trade. Nigerians are not needed in Africa to do just that. As soon as they have their own teachers, lawyers and doctors, there is less need for non-indigenes to lord all over others in Abuja or Africa. It was time to diversify into adaptable technical skill needed. Apart from loss of highly trained and expensive brain drain to greener pastures needed locally, we wasted essential resources by opportunity cost. Half of what was spent on pen pushers and Abuja could have been invested into enabling environment as satellite towns off Abuja, Kano, Owerri, Lagos, Benin etc.; and leave the rest to the technicians and hardworking Nigerians willing to move into the neighboring lands for development. Imagine how many Abuja could have sprung up into commercial centers in the four geopolitical regions instead of busting, overpopulating and grazing in Kaduna, Kwara, Enugu, Bayelsa, Lagos and Oyo states. We have governments that hunt its people down with their neighbors for breathing space, while politicians sat on fats collecting royalty and ordering finished products as if money can buy it all. A fool and his money nko? Well, that is then. If Nigerians can turn bus stop into a town, imagine what they can do with enabling bush. There must be a solution now. Sorry, we have not learned. Projects are still being built entirely by imported engineering that built Ajaokuta Steel and Eko Bridge that cannot be adapted into Eko Atlantic. We fold our hands wondering if these new car plants in their infancy are going to survive or killed as we did assembly plants in the 80s with exotic imports. We are consumers of expensive fat and producer of none. Abuja must teach us enough lessons that we are in the age of self-determination and the only survival in any environment, are those with special skills needed but must be adapted to Nigeria to prevent a brain drain. If our adapted skills work to build Nigeria as a showcase to the rest of Africa, other countries would have to pay inconvenience or bush allowance to get a Nigerian to leave home. That is what we pay foreigners for. If people in Calabar would not stay put and allow others to take over their land, why expect those in Jos, Ilorin, Owerri, Lagos, Accra or Pretoria to play dead. No democracy will make people abdicate their place of origin so that new comers can rule them, unless they have some unique skill that will enhance the culture and progress of local people. If you rob their back, they will rob your back. But if you scratch their face, so would they. Jos problem is a bigger symptom of what is going on in the whole Nigeria that has spilled past the border into other African countries. We used to go into those countries as Lawyers, teachers, doctors or even miners. What we have failed to do is develop our technical skills beyond these areas to remain relevant in engineering development with our abundant resources. So foreigners are filling the void Africans ignored; but still buy. There is a great demand for technical skills all over the world, even in United States. But if Nigerians cannot provide it in their own Country, how can they provide it to other African countries? This is how we spent our fortune building a brand new federal capital displacing “mumu” indigenes, without giving them or Nigerians technical know-hows to be replicated in other villages and towns at home or Africa. What a missed opportunity. After sending Niger Delta warriors to overseas training, Fulani warriors would ask for their turn without dreaming of any grand project that would employ them when they come back. Yet, we ignore other Deltans or Nigerians more productive. The projects we dream about is not the types that employ those we trained but to employ those trained by other countries as CUSO (Canadian Unemployed Shipped Overseas). Sorry O Canada! Hey, some people might say. These mumu already owned, pampered and bribed by the oil companies cannot even stop gas flaring after repeated regulations and agreements were broken. But if we say foreign companies intentionally preyed on our politicians’ short sightedness so that we could be their repeated customers for life, some might say we are paranoid. Speaking of looters, don’t they fly exotic cars overseas for service? If we come to really think about our misfortunes and failures, it falls on wrong priorities not lack of adequate planning. Not on some great academic or technical skill that were not available to those whose priority was our independence. Our failings have been manmade out of greed and instant gratification by those that could not build on the achievements of past leaders. – by Farouk Martins Aresa July 27, 2012 http://africanheraldexpress.com/blog7/2012/07/27/nigerian-democracy-cannot-capture-abuja-or-africa-by-farouk-martins-aresa/ |
| Politics › Pray For Your Oppressors To Live Not To Die by banku(op): 9:58pm On Feb 27, 2012 |
PRAY FOR YOUR OPPRESSORS TO LIVE NOT TO DIE Do not wish death on your oppressors because he owns the Central Bank or hold the code to foreign bank savings, if you do not want to live in penury thereafter. Pray for their survival so that they can be caught alive to recover the loot. Nobody knows how much Abacha, Mobutu or those users of aged Haile Selassie stashed away after their death. We have so many accounts in foreign banks scrabbled and hidden in the hands of cronies, that even they, cannot remember. Nigerians were mad like hell raining curses on their oppressors. Indeed if they catch anyone praying for them they may give him the jungle justice. If some people wonder where this bile against oppressors comes from, they have not been watching the hearings on how petroleum subsidy was spent, how charitable Governor of Central Bank can be or heard wishful rumor of Tinubu’s stroke. Money was flying out of Central Bank like flies after a sore. Does it remind you of Abacha regime’s Central Bank, in spite of all the check and balance instituted thereafter? So if oppressors die with all that money, who is going to recover them back to the countries they were stolen from. This is why it is very distasteful to pray for the death of Asiwaju of Lagos. If he was sick, the best we could do is pray for his quick recovery until nemesis catch up with him hale and hearty so that Lagos State can use the loot for better endeavors. Wishful thinking for on your part for sickness and death is highly misplaced. If Lamido Sanusi just reminds you of Abacha, it is government money going to government house in Kano not Sokoto, the poorest. And subsidy money, well? They have been blaming it on the masses instead of where the money was actually going. We were accused of being lazy looking for subsidies instead of paying the market price for the petrol we use when as usual the lion share was going to the big boys. Even those that wanted to stop it were helpless. So they devised a way to tell the masses that they were going to stop their subsidy. The worst they could do was revolt and they would be appeased by a roll back of the price by some little fraction. Kale of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said ONLY about 93.9 per cent of Nigerians considered themselves to be poor in 2010 against 75.5 per cent that said so in 2004. But they lie too much, jo. The actual Nigeria’s poverty rate stood at 69 per cent in 2010 he corrected them. Some of the children of the looters do not even believe there is poverty in Nigeria until they saw the isolated case of people living in environmental dump in Lagos portrayed by foreign press. Well, may be in other cities, these young men and women grudgingly implied. If your name was not on subsidy hospitality, you missed the list of who and who in Nigeria. The Fight Corruption masses went and occupy the front lawns of some of the beneficiaries including that of Asiwaju of Lagos. It is obvious to Nigerians that he is always involved in some crooked activities in Nigeria, not only in Lagos. If he is that rich as Lagosians want us to believe, they should pray for his health to recovery what is theirs and leave what is for Federal to Federal. Rumors and gossips were flying around about the demise of Tinubu while many of us were praying feverishly for his health. Our first contact was the Pope of Rome for a special mass for his health until we were informed that he has never taken communion since he was never a Catholic. So we went to the Arch Bishop of Canterbury only to find out he is not even a protestant. But while studying outside Nigeria, he was everything. Somebody said that was him. We then proceeded to Mecca asking for the Chief Imam. He directed us back to the Sultan of Sokoto in Nigeria as his representative and a place we should have started. We could have but we were reliably informed that Tinubu was receiving treatment outside the Country. Usually, the rich in Nigeria prefer a country closer to God in case their treatment fail and they die. The noise about Nigeria as the most religious in the world does not include distance to paradise. While praying for our looters, It was later that we were informed that Africans have been fooling owners of foreign religion for a long time that they believe in their religions more than the owners. Indeed, when it comes to death, Nigerians will flip back to their indigenous religion looking for the Babalawo with the best Voodoo money can buy. There are many of those these days since money is the root of all their desires. So a worship of foreign religion is just a sham. There are Babalawo and there are Babalawo. We were reliably informed that at the beginning when the looters go to them, they are informed of the pros and cons of getting rich the way they wanted. Once they get rich, there is always a price to pay. They are told to go back home and come back in a few days if they decide to go along. Of course when they come back, they are told how they are going to die as pay back sacrifice and they are willing to go along. After making all the money, they go back to another Babalawo asking him to remove the pay back sacrifice so that they can live longer. They usually pay more in that case than they did for the service of the first Babalawo. This is why some of these Babalawo are so expensive. When they finally realize nobody can cure the curse they put on themselves to get rich, they resort to foreign religion and foreign hospitals to save them. If none of these works, they want a country closer to hell, sorry, closer to paradise. What we should be praying for is to catch them when they are still healthy so that they can divulge where they hide most of their loot. We can then use that loot to build the same hospital and the same infrastructure they seek outside the Country. The most important point in their life is when they can be most useful in leading us to where and whom their loot is located. But do not entertain a doubt that they will continues to die in foreign hospital to get closer to God. Farouk Martins Aresa http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/farouk-martins/pray-for-your-oppressors-to-live-not-to-die.html |
| Politics › Re: Aworis, Edo, Igallas, Itshekiri, Ijaws, Beroms And Jews Are Closer To Igbos by banku: 10:31pm On Feb 18, 2012 |
Capture Lagos by way of Awori blood, eh? Nice try. Do another one. |
| Politics › Pray Your Oppressors Live Broke Not Die Rich by banku(op): 9:20pm On Feb 14, 2012 |
PRAY YOUR OPPRESSORS LIVE BROKE NOT DIE RICH Do not wish death on your oppressors because he owns the Central Bank or hold the code to foreign bank savings, if you do not want to live in penury thereafter. Pray for their survival so that they can be caught alive to recover the loot. Nobody knows how much Abacha, Mobutu or those users of aged Haile Selassie stashed away after their death. We have so many accounts in foreign banks scrabbled and hidden in the hands of cronies, that even they, cannot remember. Nigerians were mad like hell raining curses on their oppressors. Indeed if they catch anyone praying for them they may give him the jungle justice. If some people wonder where this bile against oppressors comes from, they have not been watching the hearings on how petroleum subsidy was spent, how charitable Governor of Central Bank can be or heard wishful rumor of Tinubu’s stroke. Money was flying out of Central Bank like flies after a sore. Does it remind you of Abacha regime’s Central Bank, in spite of all the check and balance instituted thereafter? So if oppressors die with all that money, who is going to recover them back to the countries they were stolen from. This is why it is very distasteful to pray for the death of Asiwaju of Lagos. If he was sick, the best we could do is pray for his quick recovery until nemesis catch up with him hale and hearty so that Lagos State can use the loot for better endeavors. Wishful thinking for on your part for sickness and death is highly misplaced. If Lamido Sanusi just reminds you of Abacha, it is government money going to government house in Kano not Sokoto, the poorest. And subsidy money, well? They have been blaming it on the masses instead of where the money was actually going. We were accused of being lazy looking for subsidies instead of paying the market price for the petrol we use when as usual the lion share was going to the big boys. Even those that wanted to stop it were helpless. So they devised a way to tell the masses that they were going to stop their subsidy. The worst they could do was revolt and they would be appeased by a roll back of the price by some little fraction. Kale of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said ONLY about 93.9 per cent of Nigerians considered themselves to be poor in 2010 against 75.5 per cent that said so in 2004. But they lie too much, jo. The actual Nigeria’s poverty rate stood at 69 per cent in 2010 he corrected them. Some of the children of the looters do not even believe there is poverty in Nigeria until they saw the isolated case of people living in environmental dump in Lagos portrayed by foreign press. Well, may be in other cities, these young men and women grudgingly implied. If your name was not on subsidy hospitality, you missed the list of who and who in Nigeria. The Fight Corruption masses went and occupy the front lawns of some of the beneficiaries including that of Asiwaju of Lagos. It is obvious to Nigerians that he is always involved in some crooked activities in Nigeria, not only in Lagos. If he is that rich as Lagosians want us to believe, they should pray for his health to recovery what is theirs and leave what is for Federal to Federal. Rumors and gossips were flying around about the demise of Tinubu while many of us were praying feverishly for his health. Our first contact was the Pope of Rome for a special mass for his health until we were informed that he has never taken communion since he was never a Catholic. So we went to the Arch Bishop of Canterbury only to find out he is not even a protestant. But while studying outside Nigeria, he was everything. Somebody said that was him. We then proceeded to Mecca asking for the Chief Imam. He directed us back to the Sultan of Sokoto in Nigeria as his representative and a place we should have started. We could have but we were reliably informed that Tinubu was receiving treatment outside the Country. Usually, the rich in Nigeria prefer a country closer to God in case their treatment fail and they die. The noise about Nigeria as the most religious in the world does not include distance to paradise. While praying for our looters, It was later that we were informed that Africans have been fooling owners of foreign religion for a long time that they believe in their religions more than the owners. Indeed, when it comes to death, Nigerians will flip back to their indigenous religion looking for the Babalawo with the best Voodoo money can buy. There are many of those these days since money is the root of all their desires. So a worship of foreign religion is just a sham. There are Babalawo and there are Babalawo. We were reliably informed that at the beginning when the looters go to them, they are informed of the pros and cons of getting rich the way they wanted. Once they get rich, there is always a price to pay. They are told to go back home and come back in a few days if they decide to go along. Of course when they come back, they are told how they are going to die as pay back sacrifice and they are willing to go along. After making all the money, they go back to another Babalawo asking him to remove the pay back sacrifice so that they can live longer. They usually pay more in that case than they did for the service of the first Babalawo. This is why some of these Babalawo are so expensive. When they finally realize nobody can cure the curse they put on themselves to get rich, they resort to foreign religion and foreign hospitals to save them. If none of these works, they want a country closer to hell, sorry, closer to paradise. What we should be praying for is to catch them when they are still healthy so that they can divulge where they hide most of their loot. We can then use that loot to build the same hospital and the same infrastructure they seek outside the Country. The most important point in their life is when they can be most useful in leading us to where and whom their loot is located. But do not entertain a doubt that they will continues to die in foreign hospital to get closer to God. Farouk Martins Aresa Thenigerianvoice .com |
| Politics › Pray For Your Oppressors To Live Not To Die by banku(op): 5:48am On Feb 14, 2012 |
PRAY FOR YOUR OPPRESSORS TO LIVE NOT TO DIE Do not wish death on your oppressors because he owns the Central Bank or hold the code to foreign bank savings, if you do not want to live in penury thereafter. Pray for their survival so that they can be caught alive to recover the loot. Nobody knows how much Abacha, Mobutu or those users of aged Haile Selassie stashed away after their death. We have so many accounts in foreign banks scrabbled and hidden in the hands of cronies, that even they, cannot remember. Nigerians were mad like hell raining curses on their oppressors. Indeed if they catch anyone praying for them they may give him the jungle justice. If some people wonder where this bile against oppressors comes from, they have not been watching the hearings on how petroleum subsidy was spent, how charitable Governor of Central Bank can be or heard wishful rumor of Tinubu's stroke. Money was flying out of Central Bank like flies after a sore. Does it remind you of Abacha regime's Central Bank, in spite of all the check and balance instituted thereafter? So if oppressors die with all that money, who is going to recover them back to the countries they were stolen from. This is why it is very distasteful to pray for the death of Asiwaju of Lagos. If he was sick, the best we could do is pray for his quick recovery until nemesis catch up with him hale and hearty so that Lagos State can use the loot for better endeavors. Wishful thinking for on your part for sickness and death is highly misplaced. If Lamido Sanusi just reminds you of Abacha, it is government money going to government house in Kano not Sokoto, the poorest. And subsidy money, well? They have been blaming it on the masses instead of where the money was actually going. We were accused of being lazy looking for subsidies instead of paying the market price for the petrol we use when as usual the lion share was going to the big boys. Even those that wanted to stop it were helpless. So they devised a way to tell the masses that they were going to stop their subsidy. The worst they could do was revolt and they would be appeased by a roll back of the price by some little fraction. Kale of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said ONLY about 93.9 per cent of Nigerians considered themselves to be poor in 2010 against 75.5 per cent that said so in 2004. But they lie too much, jo. The actual Nigeria's poverty rate stood at 69 per cent in 2010 he corrected them. Some of the children of the looters do not even believe there is poverty in Nigeria until they saw the isolated case of people living in environmental dump in Lagos portrayed by foreign press. Well, may be in other cities, these young men and women grudgingly implied. If your name was not on subsidy hospitality, you missed the list of who and who in Nigeria. The Fight Corruption masses went and occupy the front lawns of some of the beneficiaries including that of Asiwaju of Lagos. It is obvious to Nigerians that he is always involved in some crooked activities in Nigeria, not only in Lagos. If he is that rich as Lagosians want us to believe, they should pray for his health to recovery what is theirs and leave what is for Federal to Federal. Rumors and gossips were flying around about the demise of Tinubu while many of us were praying feverishly for his health. Our first contact was the Pope of Rome for a special mass for his health until we were informed that he has never taken communion since he was never a Catholic. So we went to the Arch Bishop of Canterbury only to find out he is not even a protestant. But while studying outside Nigeria, he was everything. Somebody said that was him. We then proceeded to Mecca asking for the Chief Imam. He directed us back to the Sultan of Sokoto in Nigeria as his representative and a place we should have started. We could have but we were reliably informed that Tinubu was receiving treatment outside the Country. Usually, the rich in Nigeria prefer a country closer to God in case their treatment fail and they die. The noise about Nigeria as the most religious in the world does not include distance to paradise. While praying for our looters, It was later that we were informed that Africans have been fooling owners of foreign religion for a long time that they believe in their religions more than the owners. Indeed, when it comes to death, Nigerians will flip back to their indigenous religion looking for the Babalawo with the best Voodoo money can buy. There are many of those these days since money is the root of all their desires. So a worship of foreign religion is just a sham. There are Babalawo and there are Babalawo. We were reliably informed that at the beginning when the looters go to them, they are informed of the pros and cons of getting rich the way they wanted. Once they get rich, there is always a price to pay. They are told to go back home and come back in a few days if they decide to go along. Of course when they come back, they are told how they are going to die as pay back sacrifice and they are willing to go along. After making all the money, they go back to another Babalawo asking him to remove the pay back sacrifice so that they can live longer. They usually pay more in that case than they did for the service of the first Babalawo. This is why some of these Babalawo are so expensive. When they finally realize nobody can cure the curse they put on themselves to get rich, they resort to foreign religion and foreign hospitals to save them. If none of these works, they want a country closer to hell, sorry, closer to paradise. What we should be praying for is to catch them when they are still healthy so that they can divulge where they hide most of their loot. We can then use that loot to build the same hospital and the same infrastructure they seek outside the Country. The most important point in their life is when they can be most useful in leading us to where and whom their loot is located. But do not entertain a doubt that they will continues to die in foreign hospital to get closer to God. Source: Farouk Martins Aresa Story from The Nigerian Voice News: http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/ Published: Monday, February 13, 2012 |
| Politics › Re: Fashola Hands Over Adelabu Steeet, Ogunlana Drive, Akerele Street In 1 Day. Pics by banku: 10:20am On Feb 04, 2012 |
No wonder. Jakande built so many houses that Shagari had to compete with him. Hear from another educated economist. GAR3TH: |
| Politics › Re: Ojukwu’s Burial: S’east, S’south To Be Closed Down, As Uwazuruike Blasts by banku: 9:29pm On Feb 01, 2012 |
hercules07:I was thinking the same but too much of a coward to raise it. |
| Politics › Re: Do We Nigerians Really Live In Less Than One Dollar Par Day ? by banku: 6:28pm On Feb 01, 2012 |
Instead of focusing on the topic, we have turned this into personality issues. So what if anyone wants to flash what he has. Remember that the savior of the poor do not usually come amongst the poor. It is one of the rich or their children that risk everything and become a rebel in favor of the poor. Our problem in Nigeria is that those that are really rich are even less than one ie 1%. Others are their cronies wanting to be like them or join the jones. The vast majority of our people are just dirt poor and some of them may not know it. I did not know I grew up in the getto until I came back to Nigeria. Nobody that made it live in Campos area Lagos anymore. I even thought we were rich. And you know what? We were compared to Nigerians living in that area today. In my days, we had water, the gutter runs and we even race with paper boats, we had light unless ECN lost a football match, we ate well and our parents wear damask and all kinds of clothes. Now that is Brazilian quarters turned into abject getto. What do you expect in rural areas? When I went to secondary school in the west, pipe born water finally came. You can not find that in many parts of Lagos today. It was Umaru Dikko who said that in America poor people pick food from dust bins and Nigerians don't. Fast forward, many poor Nigerians in all the cities live and make their living on environment harzard dump. We got mad because foreign press saw what is under our nose and we did not see or pretend as we are now, that it is not there. Why are we denying the obvious? Violent made good points but then go on and argue against himself. Emiye, thanks. Sisi-kill, if you can get William, I am Harry! Cool it my dear sister. King has a right to be mad. Why should we look good and others born like us make do on meagre earnings? Why not a living wage? We must develop conscience like Kingo, in other words, it may be nice to live amongst decent people even if everyone is not. emiye: |
| Politics › Re: Do We Nigerians Really Live In Less Than One Dollar Par Day ? by banku: 7:18am On Jan 31, 2012 |
king, It was only yesterday we were boasting that you will not find a Nigerian that will commit suicide for money he cannot spend alive or babe he cannot sleep with while alive. Fast forward to today - Nigerians will die for nothing with mere promise of same after live. If that is not hopelessness, please tell me what that is. Sometimes, if we are not careful, we get caught up in the craze like the guy who thought he was making your point, and Kobo that I have a lot of respect for. Is that a way of life both of them would like to live? You should see hunger during the Abacha strike, yet people came out demonstrating for him. The guy who claimed both of you are saying the same thing, isn't he shooting himself in the foot? When I get fed up, I cannot stand Nigeria but cannot do without Nigeria. I may stay away from the pain in a day or so, only to miss it wondering which news went by me. |
| Politics › Re: Do We Nigerians Really Live In Less Than One Dollar Par Day ? by banku: 2:20am On Jan 31, 2012 |
King, If you do not want early grave before these fools that enjoy and teach others how to live on starving wages, leave them and see who you can save. But the problem is, they may be able to convince others to play dead while suffering and smiling. Sure eat noddles day and night and you may be comfortable in your corner like a beggar that lives on the street. Is that what we wish on Nigerians. The whole point is to make people comfortable on starving wages while oppressors live like Rankadede. After a while, they will be recruited into Boko Haram hunting innocent people. Do you realize homeless people in the dead of winter claim they enjoy their independence? So do not be surprised if some Nigerians come out asking for half of minimum wage. Indeed some do exactly that when pressed by hunger. They go from house to house asking for just one meal to do anything you want. Hey, our sisters prefer going to brothel to work. Robbers prefer dying faster by bullets than dying slowly by hunger. That is how we got here in the first place. Of course people can live on 100 naira a day. Do you wish that on your enemy? People can go without food for days, the only time you see them, its dead body. At one time in Lagos, you find dead bodies all over the place and foreigners talk about it when they get back to their countries as if Nigerians do not care. Some of us are beginning to justify our sorry state. That is why the children of looters are the only ones that can eat well, wear good cloths, drive toy cars and kill poor people while speed racing. They claim poor people love it. Those who say both of you are saying the same thing, do not understand justification of a sorry state. Only a dying man knows the pinch of death. Soon they will label you as badmouthing Nigeria. Look at all the fine buildings and a new city in Eko Atlantic, as if they will ever, ever smell the place. Oh sorry, if they live there as a cleaner, they are happy. |
| Politics › Re: Do We Nigerians Really Live In Less Than One Dollar Par Day ? by banku: 3:05am On Jan 29, 2012 |
This is the type of topic that explain why so much poverty is tolerated in Nigeria. Most of these people do not even know the number of people that have access to internet or cable in Nigeria. Since most of the people they know are like them, that is all they know about Nigeria. It is this same standard that is used to raise university fees. What we forget is that most Nigerians still live in rural areas, not rat race cities. So if those in the cities send their kids to expensive schools and live on 100 dollars a day, so is the rest of Nigeria. We need to cry for this Country and revolution is over due because of insensitive nonsense spew by fellow Nigerians that refuse to accept that most people live below one dollar a day. Many of you do not even know what is 1-0-1, 0-0-1 or 1-0-0. No wonder, they claim gadgets reconfigured by college drop outs like Gate and Job as their gods. You people make me sick. Eventually you and those you benefit from will soon be wiped out before sanity can return to Nigeria. Obvious statistics and well know minimum wage are ridiculed when in fact many people make less than that. Is that why a man leaves home before his wife and children can get up to ask him for money? I feel sorry for these fools. Sio! Unfortunately, revolution sweeps everyone. |
| Politics › Zombie If I Quench You Quench by banku(op): 11:14pm On Jan 23, 2012 |
ZOMBIE IF I QUENCH YOU QUENCH Those who fight and run, live to fight another day, we have not seen the last protest. Whoever sends you to take human lives, tell them to start with themselves if you are not a zombie. The consequences must not be by your wish for 42 virgins or jungle justice. Nigeria is all you have. Tired of being shot by police and soldiers, bombed by Boko Haram, hunger crossing the desert, or resisting deportation; it is better to fight corruption and insecurity at home. Nigerians are mindful of exploitation of our causes by ethnic and religious indoctrination but are not cowards. Some Northern governors are paying Boko Haram what Southern governors are paying militia to keep peace. The proportional basis of our corruption, religious and militia violence is equal to the amount of political thugs in your state. The thugs Leaders recruited graduated into religious and ethnic zombies. Adedibu in the West started as a thug before he became the grandfather of violence asking governors for their security votes if they want peace. Governor Obi rejected the call of MASSOB and transport workers to leave local taxes to them or face mayhem. Many leaders claim they fought for and are ready to die for Nigeria, religion and ethnicity, are nothing but liars. They fought for their selfish ends taking risk stealing resources just like armed robber, that know they can be shot to death for invading private homes. If they are not in business to make a decent profit but do convert 75% of peoples' recurrent budget into their own pockets, they are nothing but daylight robbers. No matter how trained you are from wherever, if you cannot use that training locally as an antidote to our problem, it is a waste. We know the solutions to our problems. Instead of training ethnic and religious militants at home and abroad, we could have used our money wisely training students playing by the rule on how to seize control of our primary industry in agriculture and oil from exploration to the finest products. Even our crude oil production is limited by OPEC quota but the products of our refineries that could be used for our own benefit at home and exported to other countries in return for foreign exchange is unlimited. After Civil War we are yet to corner that technology. We have politicians and planted World Bank and IMF self-aggrandizing Africans that negotiated 47 to 53 percent of our crude oil away but no scholars and technicians that can take control of natural resources or steal technology from Europe and America like China, Russia, Venezuela, Malaysia and India. Yet highly educated Nigerians are at home under the yoke of SAP, all over Europe and America whose hard earned foreign money has been diluted by highly inflated prices of materials and housing corrupted at home by those that have never earned foreign money but spend it freely. Even if technocrats want to pass on their expertize for free, they cannot not afford primary living in their homeland. But foreign “experts partners” can. If we want success, that we must call Ijaw to be in forefront to confront Ebele because is Ijaw, is revolting to many. But it is not sickening to them to call on Muslims in the North to confront Boko Haram. Rightly they claim: after all he is the President of all Nigerians. The reason Ebele got to where he is right now is for no other reason than being Ijaw. He was planted to appease Niger Delta, pure and simple. But Boko Haramites must not undermine him just to appease them. A good place to learn is how Ebele turned the recent strike into his ethnic solidarity or how Boko Haram turned against their paymasters including Christians in the North. Ebele Azikiwe played the ethnic card to his advantage during the strike and we cannot blame him because many in his position would do the same. There is a difference between a military coup and a civilian coup. Military use ballots under the gun. Civilians use ballot by persuasion either by false and deceptive high-tech public relation or by competent facts to counter and gain majority votes. Only military, not civilian can enforce a coup or overthrow a government by encouraging Igbo officers to overthrow Yoruba and Hausa officers to overthrow Igbo as could Berom or Ibibio. It does not work under civilian setting. If Hausa is in power, send Hausa after him and if Ijaw is in power, send Ijaw after him. By the same token, if Boko Haram kicks because they lost power, let Northern Muslims put fatwa on them. The arduous duty is that it will take much more to persuade most Ijaw to go after Ijaw and most Yoruba to go after Yoruba. In order to get most in the ethnic group to go after their own or against religious masqueraders, the massagers must have been as virulent as Boko Haram. It gets to a point when your own people say enough is enough. Obasanjo got that message while seeking Third Term. What we see in Ebele is a President that is not comfortable because of so many sharks around him. He was forced to dole out benefits, bribe or privilege to king makers so that the military or Boko Haram masqueraders would not force him out of office. The fact that he says his doubters have invaded every level of government buttress this fact. Unfortunately, while he can dole out all the Federal income from oil, he cannot punish them like Babangida, Abacha or Obasanjo. Babangida would dole out bribes or punish anyone out of grace. Abacha from Kano, disciplined Maitatsine and dethroned Sardauna of Sokoto with muted challenge. Indeed, Obasanjo retired all the militricians and renegaded on his agreement with the Northern power brokers. Buhari, hate corruption but because his weakness for special privilege for royalty and religion, cost him the election last time around. What they all have in common is their military background. However, military background is irrelevant in today's Nigeria. Anyone can buy weapons at the international market, so any full scale confrontation that unites the ethnic militias will be protracted and counterproductive compared to one week strike betrayed by ethnic loyalty. Indeed, his ethnic militia turned it into an attempt to overthrow Ebele. Mind you, there are opportunists that would not blink an eye to do so, especially the Ciroma group. Since Ebele got in, he has reshuffled the shakers of petroleum industry with his own people. He has to do more than that. Once Nigerians realize that a corrupt Nigerian is a corrupt Nigerian no matter where he comes from, we would expect people in Niger Delta as other Nigerians to demand answers from their people in charge. Indeed, all the savings that were accumulated under the previous regime is gone and the infatuation with their leaders may turn sourer. Ebele may be one of the best antidotes for Nigeria's problems. Niger Delta will tear itself into pieces at the rate they are spending oil money, unless Ebele stops it. If we leave the North to themselves Boko Haram will tear them into pieces. If we leave the South to themselves, they will tear one another into pieces along different tongues. Our different ethnicity is our greatest strength in moderating one another. The best peacekeeping force is within Nigeria, not from the United Nations. They cannot wait to split us into pieces. But each of the ethnic or religious leaders must lead to cure its own cancer. So far only a couple of ethnic groups have disowned the notorious Judas in their midst. Not too many Nigerians have lynched their local council man, chairman, representative or senator. They may wage war and curses on Obasanjo, Shonekan, Tafa Balogun etc. to the glee and approval of other Nigerians. As soon as the table turned, most of the people in other ethnic groups become defensive but those willing to call corruption within their ethnic groups, are labeled traitors. It is our history and we must accept it as our weakness. We all have excuses for defending our own. In the same way solution for Boko Haram must come from Northern religious leaders and sponsors. The goal here was not to replace Ebele with Boko Haram but to call all sides to order before they tear Nigeria apart since each sponsors their constituencies. We have to force them to see reason that there are too many politicians and advisers in Nigeria and we cannot generate enough income to pay or bribe them all for loyalties, more than the owners of presidential or parliamentary system. We want to cut waste and return most of the income from our resources to the states. If we cannot convince the Ijaw to demand that much from Ebele or from Boko Haram paymasters; we have failed to rescue our Country from corruption and insecurity. Source: Farouk Martins Aresa The Nigerian Voice Published: Monday, January 23, 2012 |
| Politics › Re: Ebele Deploys Soldiers In Search Of Boko Haram In Lagos by banku(op): 4:16pm On Jan 21, 2012 |
So because a state governor ask for soldiers in to combat armed robbery, justify their deployment in 2012. Who are these people fooling? Beaf? Fashola requested for soldiers since 2010, FG insists By Kelvin Osa-Okunbor 13 hours 16 minutes ago Source - The Nation General Andrew Owoeye Azazi General Andrew Owoeye Azazi National Security Adviser ( NSA), General Andrew Owoeye Azazi, yesterday said there was nothing unusual about the deployment of soldiers in Lagos, State because Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola in October 2010, allegedly wrote the Federal Government to assist with the deployment of military personnel to assist the Nigeria Police Force in combating crime in the state. Azazi, who spoke in an interview with reporters at the presidential wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, claimed that it would amount to being economical with the truth for the same state government that wrote a letter requesting the deployment of military, in one breadth, to now be condemning the presence of the soldiers who have been in the state since 2010. He said: “ Is this the first time that soldiers are deployed to Lagos State? But the troops have been here for a long time; it does not matter how many. You see, if a governor wrote a letter for troops to be deployed his state , they will come. “This dates back to 2010 when the governor made a request for soldiers in his environment. So, since 2010, for those of you that have been in Lagos, the soldiers have been here for joint patrol with the police to combat crime in the state. So, why is it so bad that the same soldiers that the governor requested to join the police, you now find it very strange, “Let us be frank with ourselves. In 2010, Fashola wrote a letter to the president that he wanted soldiers to have a joint patrol to work with the police in the state. He promised he pays for them, and he funds them till tomorrow. So if the police finds out that they need more soldiers to assist and they request for more, ” Azazi denied that the current troops deployed are from other states, saying: “ You can find out.” The Defence Headquarters spoke in the same vein on Thursday, claiming that the soldiers seen on the streets during the week were part of the Task Force, code-named OP MESA. “The men of the Task Force who are currently in Lagos have been there and were not brought from outside Lagos. They are members of the Lagos State Government sponsored Operation MESA and the demand for their withdrawal is therefore uncalled for,” the statement issued by the Defence spokesman, Col. Mohammed Yerima, said in part. The statement from the Defence Headquarters, however, was contrary to the utterance of the Defence Minister, Dr. Haliru Bello, who said that the troops were deployed to prevent anarchy. “The deployment of soldiers was meant to forestall anarchy”, he was quoted to have said on Thursday in reaction to the wide condemnation of the government’s action. And promptly, the Lagos State government faulted the claim of the Defence Headquarters. A statement by the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Aderemi Ibirogba, had said inpart: “The claim by the Military authorties that the deployment of soldiers on the streets of Lagos is at the request of the Lagos State Government is not only false but missleading. “The State Goverment challenges the Military authorities to show proof of the request for troops deployment in the street of Lagos State.” |
| Politics › Re: Ebele Deploys Soldiers In Search Of Boko Haram In Lagos by banku(op): 6:04pm On Jan 20, 2012 |
If Jonathan is not a liar and Fashola is the liar asking for soldiers. Jonathan could have called off his bluff when Fashola protested their presense on the street of Lagos and remove them as the C-C of the Army. No, he wont until he finds Boko Haram in Lagos! |
| Politics › Re: #occupynigeria: Lagos Protest At Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota. by banku: 5:32pm On Jan 20, 2012 |
Look at this fool. As if he can identify all the protesters. You will soon run out of the bag of rice that is getting you drunk. Rad1cal: |
| Politics › Re: #occupynigeria: Lagos Protest At Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota. by banku: 11:35pm On Jan 19, 2012 |
This guy that keeps on posting the end must not have heard about the Elders and Respectables protesting in Lagos. He must be one of those paid mercenaries. |
| Politics › Re: Why Are Yorubas Not Rescuing Their People From The North by banku: 11:28pm On Jan 19, 2012 |
Bash, You are right in terms of numbers but take into consideration that depending on where in the North, many Yoruba are indigenous sons and daughters of the soil. Nchara, The Christians are the ones we should be worried about, but like I said before, more of them were begged not to return after each crisis. I know some of them, especially the doctors that are so establish, they refuse to leave. I still think some arrangement should be made by Odua states to bring home those that want to leave and could not afford to. I agree, these are human lives. bashr8: |
| Politics › Re: Why Are Yorubas Not Rescuing Their People From The North by banku: 10:59pm On Jan 19, 2012 |
I think there is a feeling that Yoruba are not that much of a threat in the North. They respect their hosts and even adapt. So there is a false sense of security. Many even refused to go back to the North after each crisis, so there are less of them after each of the crisis. It does not mean they should not be evacuated in time like this. It must be pointed out that Yoruba Youth Service Corps were evacuated promtly. 1 Like |
| Politics › Ebele Deploys Soldiers In Search Of Boko Haram In Lagos by banku(op): 10:51pm On Jan 19, 2012 |
EBELE DEPLOYS SOLDIERS IN SEARCH OF BOKO HARAM IN LAGOS Hasn't anybody seen the Boko Haram gangs hiding in Lagos? Reliable sources have informed our President that Lagos is full of this den of killers and must be fished out immediately. Moreover, the people of Lagos need protection and the President appreciating their votes, will be relegating his responsibilities if every Lagosian is not protected with minimum force. The problem is Nigerians complain too much no matter how the President tries to protect them. As we all know Boko Haram has caused mayhem in the North and we are committed to fishing them out no matter where they are, especially Lagos. Since they posed an endemic risk in Lagos where they can easily disappear into the fishing villages, some of the soldiers have been withdrawn from Borno State to reinforce those in Lagos. It should be clear that the President will not listen to irresponsible voices demanding that soldiers be removed from Lagos. No responsible government will tolerate imminent danger such as those posed by Boko Haram in Lagos and not take immediate action. A responsible government does not have a choice between unarmed protesters against corruption that poses little or no immediate danger and heavily armed and dangerous militia as Boko Haram. We will hunt them where ever they are particularly when concentrated in a location such as Lagos. Ladies and gents, this is a precautionary measure to prevent violence. As soon as violence erupts, the soldiers will be withdrawn and immediately replaced by MEND, OPC, Arewa Youth and MASSOB as backups with instruction to shoot and kill. All the reports coming in are that the situation has not degenerated to that stage since there are only unarmed protesters daring the meek and gentle soldiers. Corruption is a long term fight that cannot kill anyone immediately. So it can wait. On the other hand dangerous ammunition in the hands of gangs like Boko Haram in Lagos deserves prompt and immediate answer. We do not negotiate with terrorists; we fight them to a standstill. As long as Lagos protesters remain unarmed, soldiers will fish out Boko Haram amongst them. Again, the President warns that if the situation deteriorates, MEND and OPC as backup will be deployed. The Office of the President of Nigeria has been informed that some old fools, some as old as 80 and above have come out in Lagos to demonstrate against corruption. If corruption is an instant killer, they would have been dead by now. Some of them are hiding Boko Haram in their houses and are trying to divert the attention of the Government of Nigeria. It will not work. Our target is Boko Haram and we will sort out the oldies from Boko Haram. We must remind Nigerians that two of the protesters are one Prof. Ben Nwabueze that once called for revolution in Nigeria and the first impeached Governor Balerabe Musa. Another is a boma old boy from Lagos, Dr. Braithwaite. Not to mention Falana that you all know. Mix boma boy with revolution is like mixing a timer with explosive and we all know the result. Law abiding citizen must stay away from them, they may be heavily armed and dangerous. Nigerians have to be careful and not be moved by diversionary tactics. Where were these oldies in Lagos when their Governor recently booed, Fashola ordered police to brutalize and almost killed a protester? The Federal Government had to show restrain when the good citizen of Lagos called for the protection of their civil rights in Lekki. This is the reason we have avoided the use of police in Lagos and opt for the Army. If the Army cannot handle it, we have lined up MEND, OPC, and lastly but not the least Arewa Youths. Please be warned. This President more than his predecessors, understands and promised to tackle corruption head-on. Corruption did not start under this President. Indeed, this President is still trying to clean up from the time of Babangida and Obasanjo. This is why NNPC has been reconstituted with many dedicated and sensitive bureaucrats born and bred in the economic deprived swamp of Niger Delta. They know the problem first hand and as the House tribunal is revealing, they have dislocated all the corrupt practices of the Obasanjo Government as soon as they took over. The President wants to make it clear, that he will not be moved by any amount of intimidation and rumor mongering to discredit hard dedicated people's servants. There is a certain amount of envy or outright jealousy because it is the time of Niger Delta to bring the income from their God given natural resources home. They complained that all the saving OBJ left have been squandered. It is our oil, our money and our sons and daughters. So please back off. Na we born am, na we poke am, na we give am belly, oil na our baby! As started earlier, corruption does not cause immediate death, Boko Haram does. We will pick and choose when and where to fight the enemy of the good people of Nigeria. Any attempt to overthrown or give this Government a bad name under the superfluous created problem, will be resisted By MEND, OPC, MASSOB and Arewa Youths. Ebele is the first President ever elected by these combinations of human rights fighters. It is the same Yoruba of Lagos that say - First thing first. A ki fi ete sile, Ki a ma npa lapalapa. Source: Farouk Martins Aresa http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvnews/80334/1/ebele-deploys-soldiers-in-search-of-boko-haram-in-.html Published: Thursday, January 19, 2012 |
| Politics › Re: Hear The Poor & Voiceless Caught In Lekki Shakedown by banku: 2:17am On Dec 25, 2011 |
Kobojunkie, I'm so touched by this article. Kobojunkie: |
| Politics › Pdp Needs Vigorous And Credible Opposition by banku(op): 4:26pm On May 06, 2011 |
PDP NEEDS VIGOROUS AND CREDIBLE OPPOSITION We want opposition that will champion the curb of jumbo salary. So we voted takers out. It is an immediate problem that must be instilled in Ebele's Government through vibrant opposition to point out the structural failure to our purchasing power. Jumbo salary for a few because they are politicians, has created so much inflation in the Country, the new minimum wage cannot cure it. When those in the Joint Houses of Thieves saturate the market with naira and foreign currencies, middle class and Diaspora's purchasing power is diminished, the working class and the poor can hardly breathe. Until Ebele arrest this unnecessary outlandish salary for politicians, we will just be playing catch-up with inflation. So, who controls Ebele? Without contradicting the above, they all have some input but a wise Ebele would keep his ears to the ground listening to the masses that voted for him from Sokoto to Lagos. Like it or not, these youths as militia, National Youth Corps, and women must have inputs. Not necessarily for fear of what they might do or not do but for fairness. Their cry of being marginalized and disrespected (disz) must be addressed. If you provide for a woman, you feed a family and if you provide for our youths you feed our future. We cannot feed our people with the present inflation from surplus cash controlled by a few in spite of the new minimum wage competing for the same goods. If we are looking for vigorous and credible opposition, we may have to go beyond the political parties to labor, professional and youth movements. Whenever Nigerian parties are called upon to join the ruling party for the allocation of juicy positions, they always raise their stakes high rejecting the call by looking for bargaining power within the status quo. There is division within ACN already and CPC vow not to participate. Most of us know both parties will join even if it leads to a split as we saw in Buhari's former ANPP. The only person that matters in ACN has not spoken since his price to join with Ebele is well known: make sure EFCC back off! Presidential, unlike parliamentary system is winner takes all especially if the same party controls the Senate and the House. In order to get a credible opposition, we must move forward, not backwards to what many of us had wished for: voting for opposing parties at the State and Federal levels to curb abuse of power. This is the reason our youths and the intellectuals must keep Ebele on his toes as the key credible opposition left without selfish interest. This does not mean that some youths, like Bankole, cannot be corrupted, with the level of our misery index. Nigerians voted well during the last Presidential Election by voting for an individual rather than for a party. Others have argued that their vote is not logical since PDP is still in solid majority in the Senate and the House. If the PDP leaders are in control of the Party as the leader of ACN, we may be tempted to agree. However, to allay this fear, Ebele may have to prove he has a strong back bone by taming PDP leaders and the likes of Edwin Clark as Yar'Adua did against Obasanjo and as Obasanjo did against the Northern pact. Our expectation must also be balanced in the face of political realities. There is a difference here though. Obasanjo might have learnt one or two lessons from Yar'Adua and may have been humbled by the fact that he was voted against, as usual, in his neck of the hood. As for Clark that thinks he has a son in Aso Rock, he may need his own advice warning against nomination for Federal appointments by governors. Both Ebele and Clark have differed in the past about gubernatorial candidates and will have more to disagree about in the future. Another clear influence is the Northern jobber losers, like Ciroma, that have been demystified twice: by OBJ and now by Ebele. Buhari, as we know him, will not join the Government unless he has his way. The price will be too much to bear, so we can rule him out. But Ebele still has to extend his hands to him. Members of his Party will be more accommodating and will yield in the name of some national interest. Buhari really believes that Nigerians want him to rule and return the Country back to its sanity. But his dictatorial tendency turns people off as much as they admire his corrupt free crusade. In the case of other leaders in ACN, as stated, there is one overriding interest of their financier leader to make sure he is not prosecuted for financial crime. Once he gets that assurance from Ebele, there goes a credible opposition. Already there are conflicting press releases whether to join Unity Government or not. This may depend on the skin of one man going unscratched. Unless there is a coup within ACN, it may be imprudent to expect a vigorous opposition. If we can go by the resolve shown during the election, Opposition falls back on the youths, labor and intellectuals. It is why PDP needs a credible opposition from our youths and women stronger than those from selfish party interest. We would be fooling ourselves if we think Ebele would ride trouble free without special interests. He has to meet them in a transparent way so that majority of us do not go begging them for trickle down crumbs for sustenance as we do now. In other words, he has to justify his allocations fairly to the North, South, East and West no matter how many godfathers are waiting. What about Niger Delta? Some people are calling on Ebele to reward them according to how they voted for him. In that case, those states that voted almost hundred percent should dominate in his cabinet and appointments. Others beg to differ. He would be wise to think about the 25 percent spread across the Nation instead. It would bring the far North back into the fold, especially those that voted at the risk of their lives. Though the South-west voted for ACN in state elections, they voted for Ebele except for Ribadu in Osun State. We also have Federal character, no matter our reservation, it comes into play here. In reconciliation, there are few areas Ebele did not even make twenty-five percent of the votes cast. Only those playing old unreasonable politics would call for those areas to be deprived of Federal projects or influence. The voice of reason must prevail. Source: Farouk Martins Aresa Story from The Nigerian Voice News Published: Thursday, May 05, 2011 |
| Politics › Re: The Victor Banjo Story by banku: 7:29am On Mar 31, 2011 |
My brother, who fight face to face battle, generals? Do not distort facts, there are two Iluyomade in the Army, one was right there at Ore. Yoruba did not have the luxury of time to call on none Yoruba soldiers for Ore battle, ok. I have to stick to my own advise and bow out of this conversation. We are all brothers. |
