₦airaland Forum

aribisala0:
The first black female mayor was Lydia Simmons

The first Nigerian female mayor was Lola Ayorinde 1999.

There was no noise because it is natural no biggie

Eboes and lies

Eboe founded the internet

Angelina Jolie shops in Onitsha market

Orji Uzor Kalu is so rich he banks with the World Bank

QueenSekxy:
Hamas have fired more than 600 deadly rockets on Israel.
Rendering over 100 people injured and 4 dead.
Is real should wipe out those demons for firing Is real unprovoked.

AK481:
This is my problem with ipob or its sympathizers.
The table has been set for a good debate as at what is ibeto current local cement production status,instead of u to show statistics and pictures of his plant in nigeria,u re busy wasting time insulting everyone at sight.

rafindo:
Continue to preach hate and show your disdain for how economic principle works.first of all I think the the man has been unduly been cheated but has nothing to do with the present administration. His problem started with obasanjo denying him his wavier and consignment in favour of dangote, was obasanjo not a southerner.when yar adua took over and found he was duly cheated decided to grant him import wavier in order to cover the cost and time lost to dangote monopoly. The reason was simply because the local content for cement production had already started which completely placed a ban on importation of cement since our local cement plant where working,mind you yar adua was a Fulani.in spirit of competition the waiver grant was for ibeto to start his local cement plant at a specified time.with the help of elechi amadi and the current ebonyi state governor, dangote has been able to scuttle his plan to take over full ownership of Nigerian cement plant at nkalagu. What the present administration is doing simply is to make sure the cement policy is not summersaulted base on claim of undue competition. BUA ,Dangote, LA farge and the rest of the cement companies will not be happy for import wavier to be given to ibeto again since that era of mass bagging is over.it has nothing to do with tribalism has the op put it.

Lesson ibeto should learn.
Never approach business with ethnic inclination. But with strategic plan of been a friend to those in government. Contribute to their reelection or any of their pet project that way your business interest is protected.you think the buffet,bills and mark of this world don't contribute to politician campaigns. Or you think dangote contribution is an akara affair. Your business boom when the policy is in your favour and for you to have that policy you must pay a price for that.it happens everywhere.so quit this ethnic nonsense of that and this.

Asquare84:
This write up is full of lies. If dangote truly import cement try and visit obajana cement factory and see how cement is being produce. No country will ever allow it country to be a dumping ground for imported product as you claim ibeto got licence to keep importing cement all in a bid to beat down price, and I strongly believe nigerian government will support ibeto group if he decide to build a cement factory. The write up is filled with entnicity

sarrki:
[b]Nigeria seeking Russian help against Boko Haram is pregnant with interesting meanings in a season when the United States is feeling sick over the expansion of Chinese influence in Africa. And not only is Nigeria asking for assistance on Boko Haram, it also wants Russia to help with maritime security on the Gulf of Guinea. In other words, Nigeria wants the Russian Navy to become its security consultant on issues along its 800km maritime boundary. [/b]The request was tabled by the country’s defence minister, Mansur Dan-Ali, at a global security meeting hosted by Moscow recently.


It is still green – the part exposed to the public at least – and we don’t want to speculate about what the specifics will boil down to but definitely, this is packed full of interesting sparks of geopolitics. Moves being made inside the fog of war are a powerful opportunity for major changes and sudden realignment with lasting impacts.

Let us examine national security and public perception of that subject in Nigeria first as a tool for anticipating our diplomacy with Russia on the issue. The ravages of Boko Haram have shaken us all for about a decade now and thousands of people have been killed. Thousands have disappeared and hundreds are in captivity and sexual slavery. Hundreds of our troops have been killed. That is the easier part, and I say that with all sense of responsibility and respect for the country. The harder parts are the havoc that is prowling silently on the Abuja-Kaduna highway, the incendiary situation deeper inland at Zamfara, the sudden flares in Sokoto, the death that strikes suddenly in Anambra, Delta, Benue states; this gradual spread of pure evil that suddenly turns day into night, catching everyone off guard to inflict the most vicious and most terrible blows on men, women and children alike. It is a war of nerves openly professing affiliation with ISIS, the group that killed 390 people in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday as people worshipped in a feisty church service or took it easy in luxury hotels in Colombo, the nation’s capital. As we speak, troops are being deployed in a part of Ekiti State as “herdsmen” have been reported to have attacked a hamlet there and accomplished deaths and destruction. Kidnapping by terror groups has been reported in Osun and Ondo states as well. This is not something Nigerians want to live with a day longer and if it means Russians offering advice, I believe the word from Nigerians is definitely, “So be it!”


Or even a little more than offer of advice will be okayed by Nigerians. Russian arms, intelligence doctrines, full-fledged military strategies and tactics such as deployed in its full ruthlessness against ISIS in Syria are all welcome, I might say. Nothing worth living for can be made to happen in a place where bombs explode and gunfire rakes from time to time and so, we have to put peace and the eradication of terrorism first on our to-do list. America is not going to like it much but we have to do what we must for now. We have to be alive before we are friends of the West or anyone for that matter.


But what will Russia demand in return?

Oil? No. Russia can supply us with oil if we need some. It has excess of gas and coal as well.

Russia needs friends, influence and bases -covert and overt – where it can open the window on the US, the European Union and China and monitor the moves of those countries. Russia also has a need to make America feel bad in a general way and clogs in that country’s wheel of efforts at creating a global hegemony. Allowing Nigeria to be a part of all that would have been dangerous up to 1991, and perhaps until 2016 when America still had a solid façade of respect for and desires of friendship with Africa. Getting into the fray at this time may just serve us well because we are somewhat in the age of much more self-interest and nationalism.

Personally, I will even prefer the Nigerian government gets decisive in negotiating with Russia and takes steps that show Britain, France and the US that we value the lives of Nigerians above being in bed with their collective ideologies and covert positions on Nigeria! Nigeria should learn something from Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish president, and the adept moves he has been making recently, artfully playing the East off against the West and getting what he wants. I will like our diplomacy to be more emphatic and more committed in this case and I have a feeling that the West will only recede and we will have mostly China and Russia left in the game. That is not a bad thing. This is life and opportunities will always show up and we can always identify and seize them if we are prepared. Nigeria should welcome Vladmir Putin but put in place a good agreement and timelines in sorting out its security challenges despite any frown of the West.

https://punchng.com/nigerias-overtures-to-russia-on-boko-haram/

Warship:
You are not an IPOB member so, I don't expect you to think like a Biafran.

One point is clear and that is, for Biafra to succeed, allegations of such magnitude must be investigated even if it will involve Ojukwu.

Now is the hour to do a thorough inside investigation of every member of IPOB in order to find out if any mole exist.

mrvitalis:
I said state a single fact ...dont come here to post your emotional feelings as fact

iceboy4752:
Assuming this law is strictly enforced in Nigeria, do you think we'll have looters? No wonder why Saudi Arabia has a very low crime rate when compared to other states like the US.

sweetrace:
And Nigeria is expected to grow when people spend their time on irrelevancies. Buhari is President for his second term and some people are still focused on his WAEC certificate. Smh!!!!! Should we not all be focused on how to move Nigeria forward? When we disrespect Buhari, then we disrespect the office of the Nigerian President. Please, I don’t want to hear about what was done during Jonathan’s tenor. Tit for tat does not make for progress. You’ve done enough tat! Let’s move on and focus on portraying Nigeria in a great light.

Mboi:
Is this Buhari? Is he using bleaching cream?

PearlStreet:
You may die before Buhari like some of those who wished him evil but died before him.

By the way, where is Peter Fayose?
He has turned to deaf and dumb.

PythonAmaka:
Pigs killing each other.
Once again, a big thumbs up to FG for declaring IPob a terrorist organization to good effect.
IPob is not only a family of pigs but also a nest of killers. I see a deadlier bokoharam in the SE.


-python amaka

pode:
Let justice prevail

One thing I know for sure is that karma is not a fool, it will surely it needing at the end of the day

Pentasoft1978:
Nigeria is a country where illiterates are ruling the literates ....Buhari stopped the importation of rice and encouraged smuggling.....president Robot Buhari .......this man is void of inspiration, he takes commands from stupid cabals.....his robotic lifestyle is getting out of hand.

stefanweeks:
Atiku dollars talking

TheAngry1:
Some idiiiots are already saying 'enjoy your next level' and 'I thought they claim Boko Haram is technically defeated." Why are people so inherently orgasmic to bad news? I can bet you that there are people here praying daily that Nigeria fails, so they can say 'I told you so."


Shame on all of you! Awon oponu oshi!

basty:
Why are the Igbos and the South south people so pained since 2015 when Jonathan lost the presidential election?

If we all fail to see Nigeria as our country, we will all live to see the other side of it.

TheFreeOne:
Southern unity is the key to break free of northern domination. But majority of our leaders are greedy fools who keeps dividing us for their selfish interests.

Though i am yoruba but Nnamdi kanu is right on his stand for secession (though its wrong of him insulting other tribes) cos from the look of things northerners wont support restructing.

So if restructuring will not fly is it not better we go our separate ways?

gidgiddy:
That is like someone telling the Pilot of an Airplane to try and fly to the moon. He can try but he will never make it so there is no point

Even if all the elected political representatives of the SE/SS were Biafran sympathisers, the representatives of the other 4 zones far outnumber them. Any vote on a bill on referendum will be buried by the other 4 zones in a landslide.


Educate the illiterates that think themselves wise. Is that not how SEDC bill was quickly thrown away after North's own was passed into law.? With the artificially created population over the South, common sense should tell you that you cannot win in anything that has to do with voting. Anyway, common sense is not common.

Had Nigeria been structured differently in a regional setting where each region can move a motion of independence or referendum, then take to Nigerian Assembly for ratification, it would have been a different thing. That's how Scotland got its referendum in 2014. The Scottish National Party(SNP)won majority of the seats in the Scottish Regional Assembly and they moved a motion for a referendum which they won. They now took that decision to the British national parliament in London and it was ratified that Scotland has the right of self determination. Scotland was then given a date for referendum. But If Britain had been structured like Nigeria, and the SNP had gone to London for referendum, the other 3 zones that make up Britain would have killed it.

smeag0l:
Governors have been announced in 20 states so far. APC won 13 and PDP won 7. This is good for democracy. However, these governorship elections also show how the north is more sophisticated in terms of elections and voting patterns than the south. They vote individuals based on their clean slate and not based on party sentiments. This is why ganduje , saraki and others can lose elections while people like Orji Kaulu and Ibori still dictate for their people in the south. And for those of you who don't have PVC's but come here to rant on how results are being written in the north, please check the gubernatorial results of each northern state announced to see the consistency in numbers with that of the presidential elections irrespective of the party that won. These guys carry election matters on their head but we in the south sit down in our houses and use our calculators to vote and when it doesn't turn out as we permuted, we accuse a party of writing results.

Gracealone:
The same MURIC that is in support of el-rufai's Muslim-muslim ticket.
Hypocrites.