₦airaland Forum

chrisooblog:
If Southern state governors were up and doing some Northern politicians wouldn't be able to use the bold to blackmail the rest of the country.

Apart from Lagos no State down south has an excuse not to engage in some high scale industrial farming but

Yeah, that's where southern governors have their own fault and I think it's politics that did that to us.

There's no reason why governors of states like Ogun, Ondo, Oyo, Osun and Ekiti can't fund agriculture on an industrial scale. Aside from Osun and maybe Ekiti that have parts of the states surrounded by rocks, most of the Southwestern states have good arable land that will yield good produce.

But since the governors are not really supporting agriculture as much as they should, when u go to those states u see that people who used to farm before now ride bikes, keke and korope to keep body & soul together.

Itsrm:
You don talk am finish. He always references the Niger Delta situation but they are not exactly the same.

Not forgetting that a lot of people in government were also against paying amnesty to militants.

If he's educated and he reasons like that, only God knows how those that didn't see the four walls of a school will be thinking.

To think Gumi is actually a trained medical doctor who served in the army and retired as a captain. Yet he's advocating government should strike deal with Bandits and terrorists who of their own volition embraced crime against their own country.

iamoyindamola:
Not free
The government invested in them a lot

Yeah, sure.

iamoyindamola:
What do they have to offer us than breeding multiple population for election

They actually offer us food, most of the agricultural produce we eat in this country are planted in the north.

My issue with people like Gumi is that instead of them holding their leaders accountable on how well they use allocations they get from the federal purse; they will rather be expecting FG to still cater for the needs of their people. What are their leaders doing about education? Why must they focus more on religion than education and other factors that lead to improvement of their standard of living in the nearest future?

mostob:
I tire o. I like as White ignore them. Man has got some cojones. England would probably come home with nothing from the Euro.

U know the funny thing, I'm sure when White finally retires from professional football and tells his story on podcasts or interviews; most of these people calling for his head will now be feeling sorry.

He will probably have his side of story to tell. Like u said, I also like how he's ignoring them and focusing on playing well on the pitch.

iamoyindamola:
You see this country ehn
This man have been playing fore front in everything crime and violent in the north

He's getting too annoying at this point in time. Imagine him saying terrorists don't have financiers, so they just found guns ammunitions on the road abi? They didn't buy them? Nobody gave them money to buy them?

Most of his arguments don't even make any sense. He wants federal government to negotiate with the kidnappers and bandits because he feels they embraced crime out of necessity. So federal government must strike a deal with them. smh

Maybe all of us too should embrace crime because country is hard and then force FG to come and negotiate with us.

One thing I noticed is that the man somehow believes the whatever deal was struck with Niger Deltan militants, same thing must be struck with his brothers in Sambisa and other forests in the north. He obviously thinks the Niger Delta situation (where oil exploration has left so many communities degraded environmentally ) is the same with the situation in the north.

What I realy don't know is why this Gumi man is still a free man

https://www.nairaland.com/8037110/labelling-some-nigerians-terrorism-sponsors

iamoyindamola:
Because oto jo meta them lose

U know when suffer don forget person and person go remind am? That's what itsrm just did; dem go soon collect and we go see the usual emotional outbursts

afrodoc2:
Chelsea fans are ingrates. I offer am soft landing the guy no wan collect. They won't even have to pay relocation fee for Southgate since he won't have to move from his present London residence.

Dem no just like easy solutions. Itsrm leave him own appendicitis go dey pay for another person plastic surgery.

Itsrm:


Oya remove the occassional

If we remove occasional from the sentence, it means ur fans always call for Pochetinho's sack everytime u lose which is like once or twice in 3 match streak

I think u should thank afrodoc for offering u the services of Southgate to lift u out of the 10th zone.

iamoyindamola:
He say na occasional, alaye is yet to accept reality

He wan dey whine federal

Itsrm:
Apart from ocassional emotional outbursts when we lose, no one on our thread is saying Poch has to go.

And let me rephrase. Depending on what side of the divide you are, there's an agreement that we either need to improve the attack, defence or both.

Go to your thread, win, lose, draw, ETH must go.

I don't think losing as much as 10 matches thus far is occassional if u ask me

mostob:
@SamWallaceTel
on Ben White’s falling out with Steve Holland:

"It was described by sources as having begun when Holland asked Kyle Walker a question relating to Manchester City’s performance in the previous season."

"When he asked the same of White relating to Arsenal, the 26-year-old said that he did not know the answer. It is claimed Holland responded by saying that was because White was not sufficiently interested in football. It was that moment that ultimately led to the player asking to come home on Nov 30."

"At the heart of the problem appears to be a question of the respect accorded to the player. White was not in the first-choice XI in that tournament, although that is not understood to have been the key reason for the unhappiness on his part."
@TeleFootbal

Why does the England coach need to ask about Arsenal or Man City's seasons?

Shebi the national team coaching crew have enough Tax payers' money to travel all around the country to watch their national team players play all through the season? Whatever answer he was seeking he could've found out himself while watching the respective clubs play all through the season.

They should just leave White alone abeg! If person say he no wan dey discuss football, is it by force?

zeusis:
But them say make we fix defence

Both ur defence and attack are shiit; fix both and see things change .

U scored paltry 47 goals and conceded as much as 45 goals after 27 games .

aieromon:
Fayose has also responded to Afe Babalola.



https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/678948-fayose-speaks-on-afe-babalolas-attack-on-ex-ekiti-governors.html

Afe in 2018


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/05/fayose-magician-miracle-maker-patriot-nigeria-says-afe-babalola/

From both Fayose and Fayemi's responses it appears as though Fayose is more matured than Fayemi in responding to issues like this.

Fayose has more reason to be angrier considering the man had praised him in 2018 only to turn back and withdraw his praise in 2024; but see how he just downplayed the whole issue.

Is used to think Fayemi was more cool headed .

From the Baba's statement that caused the controversy ; all I can deduce is a man who is frustrated the state is not as developed as much as he had dreamed it would from one administration to another. Newspapers just help him amplify the headlines to sell their stock sharp sharp baba dey receive gbas gbos

Babalola who applauded Oyebanji for his giant strides in all sectors of governance which has brought a new lease of life to the people, said that his administration’s programmes and policies are in tandem with Ekiti founding fathers’ vision.

He said: “It pains me that you didn’t become governor of Ekiti much earlier than now. We know what we did to bring Ekiti state into existence. Our vision was for Ekiti to be the best state in Nigeria, that it will be setting the pace as my university is setting the pace now.

“Unfortunately those who became governor before you didn’t have the love of Ekiti. Go and tell them that I said so. That is why we are facing so much hardship in the state. When I was a local government councilor in the sixties, I didn’t receive a salary.

“That was when there was development in Ekiti local government. We thought that those who are coming to govern Ekiti will follow our footstep and our blueprints but they refused to follow it. However, this governor is doing a yeoman job”, he said

https://thenationonlineng.net/it-pains-me-you-didnt-become-governor-before-now-afe-babalola-hails-oyebanji/amp

Kayode Fayemi, the immediate past governor of Ekiti State, has responded to a comment by Afe Babalola, the founder of Afe Babalola University (ABUAD), who, on Monday, rated the performances of all former governors of the state low, saying they failed to develop the state during their tenures.

Mr Babalola had, while speaking at the commissioning of his university’s multi-system hospital in Ado Ekiti, singled out incumbent Governor Biodun Oyebanji for praise while labelling his predecessors as failures.

PREMIUM TIMES then contacted Mr Fayemi for comment on the legal luminary’s remark. In a back-and-forth conversation with one of our reporters, the former governor fired on all cylinders, describing Mr Babalola as a man suffering from a failing memory and driven by hate.

The former governor said ordinarily, he would have preferred to ignore the ABUAD founder’s comment but that he could no longer tolerate Mr Babalola’s repeated and uncharitable attack on his service record.

He said it is dangerous to continue to allow a prejudiced Mr Babalola to control the narrative about his stewardship, adding that all past governors of the state did their best and handed over to their successors who, in turn, took the state further than they met it.

Mr Fayemi said the respected Senior Advocate of Nigeria has had a long-running malicious attitude toward his person and had always been unfair to him and former Governors Niyi Adebayo and Ayo Fayose.

He said Mr Babalola’s biased views concerning the tenures of former governors of the state will no longer be allowed unchallenged.

“Chief Babalola’s prejudiced view can never be the final word on our time in office; certainly not on my time in office because I know, and the record is crystal clear, that I improved the state on every developmental indices than I met it. But then, Chief Babalola is an old man, and as a well-brought-up Omoluabi, one should grant him the indulgence of failing memory that comes with age,” [/b]he said.

[b] This old man believes he owns Ekiti and any governor who chooses not to grovel before him and shower him with sycophantic adulation must be brought down. Unfortunately, I will not grovel before any human being. Only God is Almighty in my books.

Fayemi vs Afe Babalola

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/679255-exclusive-fayemi-replies-afe-babalola-says-legal-luminary-driven-by-hate-narcissism.html

While Lagos state government is busy enforcing the law that demands arrest of people who cross expressway ; some touts are collecting N100 from pedestrian who carry load and want to use the pedestrian bridge 🤦‍♂️

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4vfrZOC-Xj/?igsh=d3NuN3ozOGFob3lt

Let's hope hne state government will have these touts arrested so people can use the bridge at no cost to them as is expected .

Bukayo Saka has created his own Nando's sauce - The limited edition Peri-Peri Saka sauce.

Saka: “The sauce mixes sweet, spiciness & smokiness. I can’t wait for everyone to try it. I’ve been going to Nando’s since I was little so to have my own sauce is quite mad."

🌶️

Source: Charles Watts on FB

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odizeey:
That's it. No serious opposition will heap praises on the ruling government. Na why them call am opposition.

Exactly, simply because that's not their job.

Anybody alive and has free access to the internet will be conversant with how APC criticized almost every PDP government's decisions between 2012 (when ACN, CPC & other parties were still contemplating a merger to form a mega party) to 2015 when they finally gained power.

It's not a new thing that started 2023.

iamoyindamola:
Set awon silva
The best solution is to gum body with the forward player
Saliba style the guy will be charging at you before you collect ball

Even at that, some attackers can still shake off gum-body defenders. Gum-body defending doesn't always work sef cos the player can as as well draw u out of position just to free up another attacker upfront.

Itsrm:
I don't find it strange actually. I remember the first time I went to warri, I was seeing army check points within the town. Never seen anything like that before. Imagine going to Iyana Oworo from Oshodi and there's an army check point in Gbagada.

It does seem to me like people there have no regard whatsoever for police officers so their leaders tend to invite military officers when issues come up.

That's not it; it's the years of communal clashes & civil unrests that has degenerated over time as well as the militancy issues of yester years that's responsible for that .

Immediately after the ENDARS violence that saw private business centers and government institutions burnt ; soldiers flooded marina on Lagos Island for weeks to restore normalcy

iamoyindamola:
Why the army
Have they turn vigilante like them DSS
The whole force in this country don't seem to know their job duties again sef
Police have been reduced to nothing, some now arrest and bully motorists for roger

That's the failure of leadership we are talking about na. Normally when the two communities dey petition the commisioner of police and state government they should've stepped in swiftly to address the matter before one community decide to use military JTF connections they have to help themselves .

odizeey:
It's just funny to see. That's their game. Blaming. They good as opposition, that's why Disstro.y is hailing them. We want good governance, not good opposition.

Shey na hungry belle I won use praise train when I no go enter?

The job of the opposition is to act as a watchdog by criticizing government policies and programs they feel may not be in the interest of public good in a democracy .

If the ruling party wants praises for their policies and programs yielding desired results , they have their supporters and numerous support groups to do that job for them. It's that simple .

The common man like me and u are interested in having opposition checkmate ruling party so we can have a semblance of good governance .

BlueMann:
IFAB has approved new tests for another type of offside! 😳

A player would only be offside if his ENTIRE body is ahead of the last defender.

(🗞
@433
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Defenders trying to set offside trap will be totally useless going forward ; no need setting offside trap knowing the attacker can still escape it with a ball-playing part of his body slightly inside .

Na to just resort to community defending of king balls

izzou:
[color=royalblue]You see some reactions from the government, and you'll understand why nobody takes Nigeria seriously.

You arrest a man for terrorism. Labelled him and his group for it, then kept him for more than 2 years doing back and forth adjournment

Suddenly, we have forgotten all what he said and did, and we are thinking he will bring peace if he is released?

No wonder the whole North is littered with different banditlord, kidnapping and asking for unrealistic amounts. Instead of making one an example, we use politics to further damage our reputation.

I no blame UAE for not wanting to have anything to do with Nigeria. You cannot be watching how the FG handles issues, and not quickly close your borders to Nigerians.

You just can't[/color]

I guess they will find a way to explain things away typical Nigerian way ( whether the explanation makes logical sense or not )

izzou:
[color=royalblue]The death of these 16 soldiers just overshadowed important questions we should be asking, and then turned the hunter to the hunted.

Because, I cannot understand how soldiers were deployed to install peace between two communities

No Police man, even though the closest call to security is the Police station.

Na soldiers wey fit travel 100km from Barracks go do peace talks?

And what the flying fck is 4 Senior officers doing there? The NA will deploy a Major to go and settle dispute in a community? Are you kidneying me?

The truth remains hidden. [/color]

If u read the army's and community's account of what happened, the senior officers were not in the original
groups that went for peace keeping .

It appears as though there was just one senior man in the original "peace keeping "delegation. It was after the community resisted arrest of some of their leaders and the the army went with reinforcement that the other 3 seniors joined in an assault which didn't end well for them.

That being said ; all of the incident points to failure of leadership. The letters Prospa shared about 2-3 days ago showed that the communities had petitioned the state commissioner of police over the land matter before now .

The state government along with the police authorities should've invited the two communities for dialogue long before now
. The state government failed and it appears the communities resorted to self help which got soldiers-for-hire caught in between .
Now the Nigerian army is making the most of it.

odizeey:
Power supply got better in this government? Or Buhari's government?

The way you are saying it is like they settled down and revolutionized the power sector. So I'll ask you when prepaid meter was introduced? What reforms and policies did they bring about in the power sector?

The main point is that when your so called good does not translate to the betterment of lives, business and the masses at large, it's all a waste.

Number one needs of a man is food. When food gets expensive by day and is not affordable, that can be used to interpret a lot of things.

They are doing one or two things but it's can't match the amount of damages they have done. Just like putting a spoon of Milo in a GP tank. What's the use?

There are just some moot points not worth addressing .

When Buhari was 4cking this country and the media & opposition were singing it loud APC supporters and Buharists called them all sorts of names .Deacon Femi Adeshina even called them wailing wailers .

Today APC is blaming Buhari's 8 years of governance for the woes we found ourselves today and u start to wonder if that same APC was not the same one that its supporters called people wailers for criticizing Buhari's Policies .

We never ready for this country .

If u look back in time and point to the fact that during PDP rule ; even the poor rest of the poor can still manage to feed well compared to now when even middle class dey struggle to chop, u will just be hearing all kinds of shalaye .

izzou:


[color=royalblue]In OasisX voice, We know what we are doing![/color]

The matter get as e be !

I wonder if the APC supporters now in the fore front of pushing potential Kanu release narrative would be humble enough to apologize to everybody they insulted for pushing for Kanu's release earlier

raumdeuter:
Every movement will have rogue elements, Some have hijacked it for criminal intentions

What a Tinubu can do is release Kanu and make him his own Tompolo, there are some boys loyal to Kanu and the ideology, there are some who are criminals.
Govt can provide Kanu group tactical backing
Short term there will be bloodshed because of the Kanu group vs Criminals group until they wipe out the criminal side and have a deal with Kanu's group to control everyone

At the end of the day Kanu sef go don tire for prison, there is a warm body of a wife waiting for him which is sweeter than the concrete floor of prison

Lmao

So u somehow believe that the same Nnamdi Kanu who blamed the federal government of Nigeria for the death of both parents (following the invasion of their compound the army) will suddenly put an end to attack of state actors simply cos he misses a warm bed?

What do u think fifth columnists like Simon Ekpa and his followers who have gained massive popularity within the group since Kanu's incarceration would do ? Won't they just label Kanu a sell-out for coming out of detention to sing a discordant tune ? Won't they just make him their enemy and even go as far as unaliving Kanu then blaming FG for it ?

No matter how u look at it, this Kanu issue is another Buhari-caused problem that will be a tough nut to crack for Tinubu or anybody that is Nigeria's president as long as Kanu is being held in detention.

That being said, I've been amused since yesterday evening seeing pro-APC supporters suddenly talking about now being time for Tinubu's government to release him. I'm wondering what changed ? Does APC now believe dialogue is the solution to the insecurity issue in the South East unlike what they believe under Buhari's govt ? Has this been communicated to Kanu himself hence that short court video to set the tone for discussions around the subject matter which already started that yesterday evening ?

I'm just thinking aloud .

Prospa ur guy has met Tinubu and he has this to say

Briefing State House correspondents after meeting behind closed-doors with President Bola Tinubu, Governor Oborevwori said that the situation is under control, assuring that there will be no more further attacks.

He said: "The two communities in question have been having issues for years and last month on the 7th of February they were invited by the state government, where the members representing the two local governments, the council chairmen and leaders of the communities, agreed to work together and they signed a peace accord.

"We condemned the killing of the officers and the soldiers because they were there on peace mission. What is happening now is something that we did not bargained for.

"I want to assure everybody that there will be no more attack on the villages if there is anyone that has happened in the past, there will be no more attack but we know that those who are culpable will be brought to book; the innocent citizens will not be attacked."

"Yesterday I was in Bomadi for security meeting to get full briefing. So some of those issues are security issues that you can't say publicly, so we are managing the situation.

"The issues of whether a place has been burnt down or people have been killed, it has happened and what we want is the way forward.

"The way forward is two ways. The people that has been killed, the officers and soldiers, we must see how we can find succur for their families and how they can be given a befitting burial, and then the community, anything that has happened in the community in the past will not happen again."

The second to the last paragraph explains why the army didn't allow his press men film anything ; cos yawa obviously gas for that side

https://dailytrust.com/delta-gov-meets-tinubu-at-aso-rock-over-killing-of-soldiers/

liveLongNprospa:
Shey I tell you.
I nor understand how governor nor fit stand e ground.

If I have not seen Ibori at the very least do his best to quench the warri crisis, I'd say governors are weak.
But there's already evidence for an even bigger event.
I Don tire for all delta state governors and their selfishness towards peace.

I no even understand , maybe the governor has forgotten he's an executive governor and that he owes the people who voted him an explanation of current security situation of the community as the chief security officer of the state .

Even Gaza and Syria wey be war zones journalists dey film . Governor dey within his own state wey crisis happen and dem no allow his pressmen film. And the governor no fit vex commot there or make an issue out of it. Smh