₦airaland Forum

IT is a very instructive observation by some concerned Nigerians that, when the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF) failed to force its way politically within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Ciroma branch of the proverbial "Kaduna mafia" was unable to gain the type of foothold it had within the NPN after its struggle with Shehu Shagari in 1979, in 2011, all hell was let loose. When efforts by a few 'born to rule'' individuals, to warehouse the office of the president failed, anarchy in the guise of Boko Haram became the next choice.

The operational tactics of Boko Haram(western education is sin), a supposed religious sect with curious objectives changed and has since become a tool to return presidency immediately to a few who claim that holding on to political power in Nigeria is their god given right.

As an elder politician, a former Central Bank governor and a major stakeholder in the politics of the North East, is it not a matter of great quandary that, while the North East burned and the instigators of the bloodletting in the region extended their bloody hands to the federal capital, the news media, is voluminously silent on a single comment from Ciroma and his NPLF associates. Comments of agreement or disagreement, no matter how distasteful or insipid from the man who presided over the coffers of Nigeria over a lengthy period of time is worthy listening to?

As a major player in the politics of Nigeria, he came third in the NPN contest for the presidency in 1978/79 behind Shehu Shagari and Maitama Sule. Despite his sponsorship by the astute administrator Hamza Rafindadi Zayyad, Ciroma knows what is at stake regarding the wielding of political power in Nigeria.

He was in good company when he co-opted Ibrahim Babangida, Aliyu Mohammed Gusau and Abubakar Atiku, all prominent men who have presided over the appropriation of the Nigerian fiscus over a lengthy period of time to claim the Nigerian presidency as a northern heritage, with the north defined along their very narrow perception; a northern Nigeria where northern minorities particularly the people of the middle-belt or north central are second class citizens.

Hence, knowing what is at stake, it is no surprise he swore to do everything within his power to ensure that himself and his associates do not play second fiddle to anyone who was not on their side, and that they ''would make Nigeria ungovernable'', if Jonathan or anyone who is not within their anointed circle became president of Nigeria.

This type of threat was taken then in the heat of the struggle as part of political angst and dispensed with.But with benefit of hindsight, and with what has happened so far, we know better and now must take it seriously because it was similarly used against Chief MKO Abiola until he was killed.

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Rich4god:
What is happening to my brothers in SE, are we just going to swallow the effect without a fight. Realy, what i have witnessed with my eyes in kano has taken me aback,  Plz this protest migth even go a long way to foster our national unity.

Which fight abeg free SE, d one wey we fight for before wetin we get expect name calling. i am in support of subsidy removal but the problem i have with GEJ is the timing shikena, if we continue to subsidize fuel our economy is heading to the rocks in no distance future. instead what we Nigerians need to do is to push for accountability and mount pressure on NASS to pass a death or life in imprisonment without parole to corrupt officials.

I will only take these showmanship in the name of protesters serious if they tarry till the next morning just like the Arab spring but if by night fall they all scatter like sheep without a shepherd to their various houses only to reconvene d next morning the rest of the world wont take them serious. some of us are social activist behind our PC if those shouting kill GEJ kill GEJ behind their desk top can go tomorrow morning in front of NASS or Govt. house and set themselves ablaze in protest then 99% of Nigerians will come out and revolt against GEJ and his team

"Same sexing is an abomination; it is not in Africans for Man to be climbing Man and Woman climbing fellow Woman. God created Man to romance the Woman, so I commend National Assembly on this one, Mrs Patience Jonathan on same sex marriage in Nigeria

Even until now am shocking well well for the Christmas bombing innocent people who say bye bye to their family to go to church and now some are die and plenty dieing in hospital.- Patience Jonathan addressing women group in aso rock

2012 REALITY NOT PREDICTIONS. IN 2012 THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA AND THE GLOBE IN GENERAL WILL HAVE TWO OPTIONS AND THEY MUST CHOSE ONE.

either you are the PREDATOR ,or you will be the prey.

either you are the H[b]UNTER[/b], or you be the haunted.

either you are the VICTOR, or the victim.

either you are the OPPRESSOR, or you will be the oppress.

either you are the LEADER, or be lead.

2012 will be for the survival of the fittest. i for Nigeria

Before now i use to feel bad about my lack of "proper" education but not anymore because when i read or hear the so called EDUCATED individual speak i wonder what exactly education do to some of them, even though i dont subscribe to the state burial bull-shit because of it hypocritical nature i cant but ask those attention seekers who really deserves a state burial in Nigeria of today? maybe tomorrow if Buhari and IBB dies then the same people who opposed Ojukwu state burial will recommend one for them because the Nigeria constitution recognize coup plotters and chronic treasure looters. for Nigeria

mobf:
There is only ONE problem, NIGERIANS

Seconded, our orientation must change becos everything about us start and end with money, the society encourage crime and glorify season criminals

Demoladoc:
you are all idiots saying obasanjo caused the collapse of nigeria airways.

When he left as military head of state in 1979 NA had hundreds of planes in their fleet doing both international and domestic routes but wen he came back 20 years later it had only 3planes and things had gone soooo bad through years of mismanagement by both civilan and miltary govts.

In his 2nd coming NA was in dire state burdened with enormous debts and rarely flew.

what did he do about it? He sold it to virgin atlantic and it was called virgin nigeria and we all know this one did pretty well till obasanjo left.

Get your facts straight before coming here to talk uttet nonsense.

Fools!!!

How many people did your OBJ prosecute for this terrible crime or was he referring to ghosts as formal military or civilian presidents, what stops him then as the president of Nigeria to bring those responsible to book remember he who aid or hide crime is as guilty as the criminal himself, he came and saw all this but kept mute until he and IBB had an altercation before he decide to open his shameless mouth this sh*t can only happen in Nigeria

Pls. [b]N[/b]ational [b]F[/b]ailure [b]F[/b]ederation should endeavor to pay all her arrears b4 parting ways, heard the last pay she received was 2yrs ago 

cold:
While I can understand the whole birthday shebang.What I can't fathom is why is her age a classified information?Is it a state secret?Na wa o!Everything for Naija is shrouded in secrecy

The reason is simple Madam senior Oga G with a reasonable margin so the best way to avoid national debate is to classified the matter

Boyoorisha:
You people will just write anything! They were not in Australia to celebrate her birthday party, it was just a coincidence. You alos said GEJ bought a cake with tax payer money, gush, ! How much will such a cake cost for goodness sake. An ordinary Nigerian can a more elaborate birthday party. Shame!

inflation of contract is not peculiar to road construction only, that cake might have cost at least 350,000 USD

kasiem:
thanks to siasia transmogrification of our team. the question now is, why didn't our team go this abysmal when it was under amodu? ruminate on it

Again this is what some of us dont know wen we talk about FIFA rankings, if most recent result are the yardstick for ranking then Nigeria should have been ranked higher than Egypt but this is not the case cos Fifa use the results a team accumulated for the pass four years, before it was six years but was later changed to four years, which means that the results we got in 2007 is still active wen they do their plus n minus in points. have you ever wonder why Egypt despite a 1win 2draws and 3lost games in qualifier still remain 2nd, is simple since 2006 to 2010 they were the triple champions of Africa and have accumulated points in the process so there current runs of poor form will only start to hit them hard come 2014/15

mercenaryx:
If the FIFA ranking is biase, is the AFRICA's CAF ranking also biase?, The only thing we can do for ourselves is make up for this mess by obliteration of the current national team and staff and call for a fresh hands and legs. Thank you. Freeman Remi David

Mr football analyst Caf has noting to do with rankings Fifa does the ranking for all it federations, e.g if Ghana is 15th Cameroon 20th Nigeria 28th Egypt 35th and Tunisia 48th respectively in fifa ranking then in Caf top 5 will be Ghana 1st Cameroon 2nd Nigeria 3rd Egypt 4th Tunisia 5th, in a nutshell Caf and other federations base their ranking according to Fifa ranking

OMG so this is why these so called celeb erect1on big buildings and ejacu1ate cash any how in pub

Shalomé:
they were interviewing a lady who jst arrived frm abroad bout a children programme she wants to sponsor on radio wen d badazzes arrived
conversations were lyk
DOOR BURSTIN OPEN
robbers : ,
radio guy : we are on programme,sir
robbers : (KPA!!!) slaps radio guy
robbers : (addressing lady) pull doz things off NOW!!!
(sound of jewellries being pulled,prolly bracelets,watches e.t.c)
general pandemonium + occasional HOT slap sounds
robbers : were your keys (addressing lady)
robbers : who get d oda car outsyd
radio guy : manager lo ni
sound of mic hittin d floor, sound of ransackin, occasional slaps, all tis while background cool music ws playin, no police till station got disconected
I LOVE 9ja, peculia countrythey were interviewing a lady who jst arrived frm abroad bout a children programme she wants to sponsor on radio wen d badazzes arrived
conversations were lyk
DOOR BURSTIN OPEN
robbers : ,
radio guy : we are on programme,sir
robbers : (KPA!!!) slaps radio guy
robbers : (addressing lady) pull doz things off NOW!!!
(sound of jewellries being pulled,prolly bracelets,watches e.t.c)
general pandemonium + occasional HOT slap sounds
robbers : were your keys (addressing lady)
robbers : who get d oda car outsyd
radio guy : manager lo ni
sound of mic hittin d floor, sound of ransackin, occasional slaps, all tis while background cool music ws playin, no police till station got disconected
I LOVE 9ja, peculia country

OMG i just got fired from work becos of your comment i actually forgot i was on duty wen i burst into an uncontrollable laughter while attending to a potential customer right in front of me. OMG i cant believe am been ask to clear my desk just like that

cap28:
slave - do you understand english or are you pretending as if you do?

i would really appreciate it if you would kindly point out to me in my post where i said nigeria was the only country that voted in favour of the no fly zone.

the issue is not about how many countries voted in favour of the no fly zone - it is about the fact taht nigeria had no business voting in favour of it in the first place. I referred to you as a slave because you have not even understood that there is something wrong with an african country voting to allow a group of european nations to attack a fellow african nation, in your dumb slave mind you see nothing wrong with such an atrocity and that is why you will remain a slave for life.

go back to sleep slave, you are incapable of reasoning like a full fledged human being

You said and i quote:

throughout this libyan crisis nigeria has acted as pawns of the NATO powers, they voted in favour of a no fly zone - (which is an act of war) against a fellow african nation, they then recognised a govt that continues to kill its own citizens "end of quote"

you started your formal ranting by saying:

"goodluck jonathan is a complete disgrace to the african continent, he has no self respect and that is why he allows himself to be kicked around by the west,"

you are calling GEJ names and blaming Nigeria as if we are the only country in africa that voted in favor of a no fly zone that was why i tried to bring you back to your track but if by now you dont understand how your statement singled out Nigeria for criticism then i must sincerely sympathize with you.

By the way thanks for calling me a slave

cap28:
the african union have at last bowed to their western masters.

meanwhile the NATO countries divide up the oil and gas and reconstruction contracts among themselves.

can any african country dream of invading a european country, bombing its infrastructure, killing its people and stealing its resourcees and then turn around and say they are bringing demcracy to that country?

Libya owed no debt to the world but that is going to change very soon - very soon Libya is going to become submerged in debt, its people will be impoverished and the wealth of the country will be transferred into the hands of the western oil companies , banks and multinatinals all thanks to the NTC traitors and their western collaborators.

goodluck jonathan is a complete disgrace to the african continent, he has no self respect and that is why he allows himself to be kicked around by the west, hillary clinton speaks him and other african leaders as if they are pre school children , this is the kind of behaviour gadaffi would never tolerate from the west.  the AU tried to stand their ground and stop the ongoing carnage in libya but they were dismissed, ignored and treated with utter contempt by the NATO powers.

throughout this libyan crisis nigeria has acted as pawns of the NATO powers, they voted in favour of a no fly zone - (which is an act of war) against  a fellow african nation, they then recognised a govt that continues to kill its own citizens - a raciist genocidal govt whose aim is to ethnically cleanse the blacks from libya , the nigerian govt has shown itself to be nothing more than a traitor and an errand boy for the western nations.

Dont just open your dustbin mouth and spit poo out of ignorance so you want us to believe that only Nigeria voted in favor of a no fly zone and South Africa didnt, stop fooling yourself and have facts before you advertize your stu-pidity online

Some people still believe that there is nothing like an African beauty but i must say there is beauty in the African system thumps up to our African queens they are the best when it comes to beauty my black queens are miles ahead of other race, nobody fit try them cause there beauty are real and endless there black skin color can never fade. i love them black and sweet.

Wow, she's made for life, imagine 10milUSD,  Gallardo LP570-4 Super Trofeo Stradale Lamborghini limited edition, all expense paid trip around the world for 1yr, five wish list to visit whoever and whenever, with special guest honors to grace any occasions in the world. whoa this is huge. how i wish,

I hate permutations

Can the Niger Delta milicriminals a.k.a Freedom fighters see what their inventions has brought upon us, even though before now Nigeria use to be the opposite of peaceful but we never witnessed these barbaric and insane actions taking place not until Niger Delta and it criminal elite invented bombing and kidnapping in the name of "Freedom Fighters" today Boko Haram bombs everything and anything, kidnapping is no more an exclusive practice in the SE but fast spreading to the north.

No matter wot Ige's Son thinks about Al-Mustapha allegations, one think is clear and indisputable and that is simple: Yoruba Man Iscariot

Myself2:
Croatia coach Ivan Grnja said this after the match:

"It was a good game and we tried our best to make a good comeback. We were the best against Saudi Arabia but we couldn't win the match. Today we found an opponent with good quality and we couldn't compete with their quality. The problem was the physical status of our players. Most of the players couldn't compete in the game and that's why we conceded quick goals towards the end of the match. Nigeria showed that they are strong and they have good players. We made several mistakes which affected us and allowed Nigeria to score five goals."

No be lie

If it were to be an African coach he will not hesitate to point out that his opponent played with over aged players, a typical example was wen Tanzanian Olympic team manage to win our Dream Team V away the coach brag after the match that if his team can stop Cameroon then Nigeria should not expect any favor from them, but wen we forced him and his players to face reality in Benin the same coach accused us of fielding over aged players.

Anything can happen in a country where a Minister of Justice was murdered in a cool blood but Justice was denied him.

So Yoruba man Iscariot?  

This is definitely not a good news neither is this the good example our role models are meant to showcase to the youth, Frank in the order hand acted like a 17 years old by going to twitter to wash his dirty cloth and that got me thinking what is happening to this generation what suppose to be a private family affairs finds it way to public, will one be surprise if couples start to twit on how their partners moan or cry in bed. and this is why i pity women, ten years of marriage 3 kids as a result and now you want to separate.

As a man Frank if he want can hook up with the current miss Nigeria and continue is ride from where he stop but same can not be expected of the woman, i wonder what is left for a woman which Virginia has produce 3 kids and 10 vigorous years of marriage. imagine an average 8 times a week by 4 weeks add it to 12 months then multiply it by 10 years and figure out how many waters which has pass under this bridge, pity the next Dickson that will take over.

I have always ask my friends if love alone is enough to say i do? there are so many things needed and respect is one of them. for me if i finally put my hands in the plough i shall never look back no matter what i will strive to make it work

Hmmmmm!!!!! Carrot and Stick policy, wow this na big grammar what if they collect the two from govt. chop the carrot finish then use the stick beat Good luck comot from Jonathan body

and e go easy to reform common militant than a religious fanatics, wetin you wan tell them wey them go hear when somebody don already tell them say 21 virgins dey wait for them for heaven.

If gorment like make them introduce Bread and Akara policy, this guys mind are already made up

Where our gorment learn this small pikin policy from self, why be say America no introduce Chicken and Chips policy for Osama bin-laden

yogun:
i read with amusement the posts on this Nigerian woman

the babies are so innocent and don't deserve this publicity

I will not support this woman's behavior, it has only shown that she is not a straight person.

First of all she abused the use of drugs.

For someone in her right state of mind, i believe she knew that her actions has consequences and she stood the chance of multiple babies.

I dont believe her claim that she didnt know that she was expecting more than one baby. she endangered her life and the babies by her acts.

I dont want to be judgemental but her actions have further dented the image of Nigerian. it is stated in the visa that "no recourse to public funds", so regardless of her situation, how does she qualify for public funds?

She took a decision and she shld have crossed her "t' and dotted her "i'.

for her to now said that all her families are based abroad and she doesnt have a roof over her head here in Nigeria doesnt sound true to me.

for the sake of the young kids, i pray that her visa shld be extended so that her kids can be strong enough to travel back and she shld be sent home to care for her kids here.

She shld just go ahead and plan her return pending the time, am sure she'll be shocked at the level of support she receive from friends, extended family, religious grps here cos WE LOVE BABIES HERE and we know they are nothing but gifts from above.

She shld appeal to NGOs here as well the state and federal government to help in anyway possible (clear the bills).

I will not support her fight to stay there against their laws.

Let's not because of this moment forget tomorrow. enough damage has been done to the image of this country and every little effort made by everyone of us to redeem the image will go a long way.

Thank you

GOD BLESS YOUR SOUL

am neither in support or against her action because am not there in person but no matter what we must take into consideration of these five innocent kids, that's just my point

KAYD007:
@ beeke,

Must one express the same opinion as yours?  

we all share divergent views, u do not need common sense  to even see that, DO U?

You should be tolerant of views at variance with yours.

Next time u feel the irresistible urge to hurl such ugly curses  please do us
the honor of taking a brisk stroll, to go hug a wet  PHCN trans-forma!

Gutter mouth!

Don't get me started

Siena:
Chei!  Brother Beeke, no need to insult Claremont. I don't agree with him, nor his motives for starting this thread, but I get my points across without resorting to threats and verbal abuse.

I can understand your anger though.

Believe me i don't roll like this but this Claremont of a guy has gone to far with his am holier than thou comments, all my life i have come across pigs and dogs but this guy is something else, i know that everybody have rights to his/her opinion but when human life is a stake for heaven sake we must be careful with what we say or do, none of us know the true story except what we read on pages of newspapers

I am a gentleman by nature but when am   i throw all that out of the window

claremont:
@Steve and Builder: wetin Claremont do una, abi I snatch una wife? I'm only expressing my opinion here, which I'm perfectly entitled to. If una like make una curse till thy kingdom come, it doesn't take away the fact that this lady is a fraud!

You are the greatest of all fraud, you are a disgrace to Nigerians in diaspora, a disgrace to human race, a disappointment to your generation and d one unborn, you are a frustrated monster, your heart breed wickedness, you have sold your soul to Lucifer, you are a regret to d womb that gave birth to you, if only i can see you face to face believe me i will kick your teeth down your throat. Tufia, you disgust me  

claremont:
A lady who has enough money to buy a plane ticket for her and her husband surely should be able to afford a respectable hospital in Nigeria. Humanitarianism is applied to persons who are in dire need of it, not persons who wilfully defraud taxpayers and drag our Nigerian name in the dust!

You are indeed pathetic my friend you keep making noise about your tax this your tax that, if i may ask how much are you worth and how much do you pay as tax that gave you this moronic attitude of holier than thou posture.

And from your many crippled comment i saw an idol mind we pay more attention to what others think about you and your country, these are the same people who sees man marry man or woman marry woman as a fundamental human right, these are the same people who wages war against other people just to milk their resources

I don't pity you at all i only sympathize with some of your relatives who had you in mind for a brighter tomorrow

Agamefu adim ma igi gwa'aju  para nisi

claremont:
You guys are just being emotional over an issue that is as clear as black n white. So because we are all Nigerians gives her the right to play the system?! What's wrong is wrong, irrespective of nationality. 200,000 pounds transtates to about 50,000,000naira; I bet if she had been giving this amount in naira, she wouldn't have bothered to come to the UK!

You are not human you have no heart no soul, you are just ridiculous and i pity people around you