₦airaland Forum

There is an adage that says - "If i hit a mud with stick, whoever is stained should go and clean up"
Gaddafi is not saying what we've never heard before. Someone just has to speak out. Those senators crying fowl are only protecting their selfish interest and not that of the populace. Read thesame report in other newspaper, the guy from Edo state and some other senators really made some senses by telling other senators not to just ignore what Gaddafi said, but rather to check ourselves as a Nation and right every wrong.

I've said it in another topic - None of you seems to know the plan of this Jihadist. TERRITORIAL CLAIMING!
Didn't you read the statement by Sadauna of Sokoto years back? - Search it out under another topic.
The plan is to take over and rule everyone, and not only in Nigeria - all over the world. HOW? Try and search on google
Banking sector was not favoring them, then came Sanusi(a fulani) - I rest my case on that.
Better be vigilant in your neighborhood. Do you know what your may-guard could do? Is he Igbo or Yoruba? Sure he's either hausa or fulani, must be from the north!
We are in a critical stage in the country call Nigeria. Can we remain one? This is a big question.
And to those rejoicing they are coming to the S/W. Have u forgotten the populations of other southerners living in Lagos/Ogun? I'm sure the Fulani will give them special recognition.

My Son. Cartoon Network!

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Did the call for separation start after Jos crises?
You argument of hardcore christian hating Islam is fluke!
The only pple clamoring for one Nigeria are those in government, having relative in govt or benefiting from the corruption in the country.

", the new nation called Nigeria  should be an estate from our great grand father Othman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We must use the minorities in the north as willing tools and the south as conquered territories and never allow them to have control of their future".
Sir Ahmadu Bello, The patriot 12 Oct 1960 (Thisday 14/1/10 page 40).

The statement above shows the mindset of the north, whether we admit it or not. Why forcing ourselves together when it shows clearly that we are not one? Let's continue to live in deception and think all is well.

", the new nation called Nigeria should be an estate from our great grand father Othman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We must use the minorities in the north as willing tools and the south as conquered territories and never allow them to have control of their future".
Sir Ahmadu Bello, The patriot 12 Oct 1960 (Thisday 14/1/10 page 40).

Please tell me, is this quote above true? Then if it is, we should better go our different ways. You pple that are trying to preach one Nigeria, u should better rethink! If we refuse to do the right thing now(breaking into our different ethnic group), a generation is coming and very soon that will not take all these nonsense. If you think we are one, you are simply deceiving yourself! Let us siddon look, until this enemy of progress/modernization spread their wicked act to the south and start killing everyone, i think the pple that are left will do the right thing then. Abo oro l'anso f'omoluabi,

The goal of Islam is to take control of any community/country where they happen to be majority, look at Nigeria. We should not assume that this thing can't happen in the SW, IT CAN.
Anytime u see the "may-guard" in your house, that's a potential tool in the hands of these jihadist. Instinct has taught me to place the one in my house under close watch! Who told you they can't have weapons inside their shelter to unleash terror on the occupants at any given time? All they needed is instruction after a friday service at the mosque.
Southerners, please be at alert!

I think this woman is fed up with the lies and could not swallow it anymore!
I remember a friend showing me a clip of how Dora was asking some of the presidential aids what to say to the press after one of the FEC meeting. They've been using her to shoot out the lies and she's now fed up.

Please i need the information on the land area of the city of Abeokuta. In Square Kilometers.

The fact remains that Mutallab access to wealth paves the way for his joining international terrorist organization, and the fact remains that his brothers at home - the almajirins in the north are causing mayhem due to the poverty and corruptions in the country. If he had no access to wealth, the best he could become would be the local almajirins who kill in the north. If his brothers in the north has thesame access to wealth, they will also graduate to the level of international terrorism.
Stop criticizing Hillary for nothing, she has made her point! Petepete ti mo na labata, eni to ba ki o lo tun be se.

That our pastors our now discussed under the Celebrity section instead of the Religion section is further evidence that many of these so-called "men of God" are mere "celebrities" enjoying the limelight and walking the red carpet.

When are we going to have true pastors of Christ that put more effort in helping the underprivileged and spend less in expensive weddings, opulent social events, Mopol protection, bullet-proof cars and expensive jewelry?

When you become a pastor and when you stop cheating at your place of work!

I'll personally educate you on public speech. Cool ewu
A pastor that calls himselt a man of God should be busy passing the message of healing to the children of God and not criticizing a government to that extent. Causing the government to be hated by the whole world. . .And they all want Re-branding.

I guess you don't know the bible!
Checkout the prophets of old if they did not cry out loud against injustice in the land. They confronted kings and rulers, they caused a change of rulership. I wonder what you people are saying here hiding under your stunted knowledge of the bible. Mind you, God will not come down or send any angel to come and change our lot as a nation. If we pray and fast till thy kingdom come and we refuse to do something. When men pray, God use men to change situation and turn things around. He will neither come down nor send any angel to come and effect a change. Close mouth, close destiny!

The Venezuelan Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Enrique Arrundell, recently offered a piece of advice that should serve as food for thought and basis of future policies and actions in the management of Nigeria‘s petroleum resources. The ambassador, during a visit to the Information and Communications Minister, Professor Dora Akunyili, candidly counselled that Nigeria should not hand over its economy to foreigners in the name of deregulation.

He was responding to a request by Akunyili that he should encourage businessmen from Venezuela to come and establish refineries in Nigeria so that they could benefit from the proposed deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry. Akunyili presented Nigeria’s petroleum sector as a goldmine from which Venezuelans could reap bounteous harvests.

[b]Arrundell, in his response, said Nigeria should first and foremost make its refineries work. He stated that there had been no fuel price increase in his country in the last 20 years and that it cost only $1.02 (N153.00) to fill the tank of a car. Venezuela, with a population of 27.9 million, has six refineries which are functioning at full capacity.

According to the ambassador, the country has 18 refineries in the United States and 18,000 gas stations on the West Coast and they are all in the hands of Venezuelans.

“Before 1999, we had three or four foreign companies working with us,  They were taking 80 per cent and giving us 20 per cent. Now we have 90 per cent while they have 10 per cent and there are 22 countries working with us on that condition. so, it is important that Nigeria takes control of her resources. We have no illiterate people. We have 17 new universities totally free. I graduated from the university without paying one cent and took three meals everyday because we have the resources. We want the resources of the Nigerian people for Nigerians. It is enough, minister; it is enough,  If you are not handling your resources, how are you going to handle your country?” the ambassador wondered with apparent concern.[/b]

That Nigeria’s oil is being blatantly mismanaged is an open secret. That the vast majority of Nigerians do not benefit from this natural endowment is a fact that is not councealed even from the residents of the North and South poles. The Venezuelan ambassador is thus not saying anything new. What makes his passionate expressions of concern significant is that the representative of another oil-producing country has come to say it boldly and clearly that oil is meant to be a blessing and not a curse that it is in Nigeria.

THE current price of petrol is 225 per cent higher than what it was 10 years ago and the government is a ploy to impose another price hike in the name of deregulation. The rulers are not worried that every fuel price hike has worsened the economic situation and made life more burdensome for the common man. Almost all the small and medium-scale businesses have gone under. The large-scale enterprises have been closing shop at an alarming rate because electricity is not available and diesel is not affordable.

NIGERIA simply collects rents on the basis of whatever is declared by the oil companies. There are no accurate figures either on crude oil export or on imported refined products because the weights and measures required for these purposes are not in place. The gauges at the storage facilities where products are received do not work. Whatever the ships declare is what is taken and on which the so-called subsidy is paid. The entire process stinks.

IT is on the basis of this defective arrangement that the government claims to have paid N955 billion as subsidy in the last three years. The same government has admitted that the process of fuel importation is fraught with inefficiency and fraud. It has not been able to find the wisdom or muster the courage to smash the vicious cartel that is responsible for all the abuses. Its only feasible option is to add to the price of fuel under the guise of deregulation. That more companies will close down and relocate to neighbouring countries does not matter to the government. That unemployment and aggravated insecurity will be the natural concomitants is immaterial to the people in authority.

So far, only a microscopic minority the political elite and their business cronies and collaborators in the bureaucracy have been benefiting from Nigeria’s oil. A succession of harmful and self-serving policies has created a situation of misery in the midst of abundance for the populace. It is shameful that a cabinet minister needs a foreigner’s tutorial to get educated that her country’s resources should be used to improve the lot of its people.

As a result of efficient managerial and sense of service on the part of the country’s leadership, the people of Venezuela have been the primary beneficiaries of their country’s oil. The economy is buoyant. Education is free and qualitative. Health care is no problem — doctors go to people’s houses to look after their health. In Nigeria, nothing works. Even the president goes abroad for medical treatment. Professionals have been migrating to other lands in search of fulfilment. The rate at which the youth have been emigrating is mind-boggling. Akunyili should have asked the Venezuelan ambassador for political and economic managers and not for investors in one sector of the oil industry.

As stated in our previous editorials, we see nothing wrong in deregulation. But we see everything wrong in the way it is about to be implemented. The government is just about to transfer the cost of the inefficiency and fraud in the process of importation to the ordinary man. Before deregulation could serve the people’s interest, the country must have adequate refining capacity and the cesspool of corruption known as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation must be cleared up.

                                                              http://www.tribune.com.ng/23122009/edit.html

Some people need to die for Nigeria to work!

No.1: The Crude importer/exporter cabal needs to be esterminated
No.2. The generator importer cabal needs to die.

There may be other cabals, but first these two must go before anything works in that country. They are all there in the govt, they are the one ruling us. A few number of people toiling with the destiny of many! We have watched too long enough. And God will not come down to do this for us, he has done enough by giving us the resources.

I'm presently in Kampala, Uganda. To my surprise, since i got here on the 2nd of this month - November from Nigeria, i've been wondering if they ever take their light. There is no night that i don't see light everywhere, even in the day. I work for a telecom company and here for a training before coming back to Nigeria. Another colleague of mine that went to the base station sites here came back with amazement. All the base stations sites he visited has only one generator that is almost at rest at all time. No special diesel storage tanks in all the sites. The battery backup is enough.

Even in the office where i work here, i sometimes asked somebody if they ever put on the generator at the office. I've never heard its noise since i came. The whole city is always quiet and you can never see any "I better pass my neighbour" at any road side shops - no matter the business.

Smaller Africa country like Uganda, i heard that the major export they have is coffee which gave them about 900Million USD last year. Compare that to what we realize per day from crude oil. There is also corruption here in Uganda quite alright, but i still dove my hat for their electricity supply. It's simply working!

I've only been to London twice (last time was in '07), and I knew about Peckham, but I don't remember it being this naija infested. Cheesy Tongue

What's wrong in that video? Is it because Nigerians are many there? I just don't know.

It's not the lady who accuses Yorubas, it's the man with funny hair style.

Aloy.Emeka, please get the spelling/pronunciation right. It is not Yor[b]o[/b]ba, it is Yor[b]u[/b]ba.  Just a point of correction. Well done.

Quote from: spikedcylinder on March 31, 2009, 09:59 PM
27th.
How funny we both share the same date. How are you doing girlfriend and your location plz ?

I'm also 27th, Oct.

No one celebrate failure. People only celebrate success. China will be 60 years old also by October 1. China can afford to celebrate but not Nigeria. They are only 10 years older than us, but 100 years ahead of us in development! As Ruben Abati rightly said, the world has left us behind. We are no where to be found even in Africa! Forget all these noises of been the giant of Africa. Giant in what? Population? That has not helped us.
Until we wake up to the fact that we are not alone in the world, we would not make any progress. The world is laughing at us and we are shamelessly bragging as the most populous black nation in the world. What a shame!
I know that in the very nearest future, there will be alternative to petroleum which is our main export. The developed world is working tirelessly to find alternative. Maybe we would wake up by then. But why waiting till then?

Where are we going in this country?

Guest at the opening of a university when the schools at home are shut!
Going for medical checkup in Saudi when the hospitals at home are dysfunctional!
Welcomed by a governor when presidents are waiting to welcome him!
Political class is been financed while our "ivory towers" are shot of fund!

We know all the problems, but where lie the solutions? God or ourselves? I believe it's ourselves, nobody will fix it for us but ourselves.

Solution = Revolution=Eliminating all corrupt people past and present.

Are you a Preacher,Musician,Footballer,Oil Magnate,Backwarding and Forwarding Agent,Treasury Looter, Forex Trader,Wonder Banker,Yahoozee,419er,ritualist,kidnapper or Bank Robber?

Once upon a time, u won't find a preacher qualified to be in the list above. Thank God, the trend has changed.