₦airaland Forum

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We have all it takes to achieve our dreams.

The country kills our dreams, our leaders says we have no future, yet we excel in other lands

Lol

Next level borrowing.

Let me be stockpiling bitcoin first.

Nigeria will not escape this doom coming

Bible never said money is the root of all evil ma.

Bible says LOVE of money is the root of all evil. The difference is allowing money to own you and not you owning money.

If your kini is your root of evil make it clear. I came out from my mums own and it's not evil.

Ok

Umu igbo ha ga ekwe

Politics is the biggest business in naija

The game plan is sacrifice zamfara and one more state to PDP and retain presidency when it gets to supreme court

happney65:
On the part of Davido or those boys?He promised them 1Million..Them no ask from him na him say he go give them..so therefore he MUST PAY!!!

Did I hear you say Must.

Go and beat him.

Entitlement mentality in Nigeria is too much.

Uyi168:
Summary Abeg..

The guy is asking Freeze to publicly come out with the blue print of his movement.

Is Christ the center of his movement?

Finally he adviced him to tell people if he believes in Jesus Christ as the final authority in Christendom.

Ehe, he also adviced him to go read more historical church reforms.

Nicely crafted

Eleven years ago — to be specific, on July 7, 2008 — the title of my column was: “One Day, the People Will Rebel”. I warned that the extravagant lifestyles of our elite in the face of crippling poverty in the country would come back to bite all of us one day. At the time, kidnappings were a Niger Delta thing as militants agitated for resource control, but I was talking about what I called the “non-oil” kidnappings which I said would become the fad in the near future. I said the Nigerian elite must get the message that they could not continue in their ways and expect peace and safety. I warned that there was a lot of frustration, anger, bitterness and resentment in the land.

I wrote that when “blood relations of wealthy people are being kidnapped in exchange for ransoms, that is a clear danger signal to the elite. You have a driver. You have a cook. You have a security guard. You have policemen guarding you. They are all human beings. They see things happening around them. They hear your phone conversations as you conduct your mindless transactions. They are hearing the mind-blowing figures. They see the movements of Ghana-Must-Go bags. In an attempt to ‘redistribute’ the loot, they will resort to kidnappings and demand ransoms. It is happening already. More are in the offing, I think”.

A reader was so angry with me that he sent me this SMS: “Simon, you are sowing evil ideas in the minds of our drivers and domestic staff. You are highly irresponsible. I will never read your column again.” Typical of me, I did not respond. I had realised early in my column-writing career that those who really want to engage in constructive debates normally use decent language. I hate street fights. As a kid, I was never involved in street fights. My grandmother (God bless her soul) was always proud to show me off to her friends as a “good boy”. I would be letting “Iya Kola” down in her grave if I engage in internet street fights. So I always let attacks and insults pass — with all pleasure.

However, I am always unhappy whenever I lose a reader because of my views. I feel I have lost a potential co-evangelist in my “leadership by example” approach to the building of a nation “where peace and justice shall reign”. That reader clearly misunderstood me: I was only forewarning on a disturbing development with the sole aim of gingering our leaders to act. Growing criminality is a product of our broken social system that deprives the majority of Nigerians the basics of life such as roads, water, healthcare, education, security and jobs. I was fighting for social justice. I was warning the elite that they were not safe in their fortresses no matter how many police escorts they have.

As a philosopher said, all I did was to hold up a mirror for the society to look at itself. Breaking the mirror — as that angry reader decided to do — would not change the picture. The inequality in Nigeria has been too much for too long. In a country where people lose their lives because they cannot afford drugs of N1,000, you have people buying private jets and flashy cars not from some hard work but by feeding on the commonwealth. Our hospitals are rejecting poor patients because there is no bed space. Pupils are sitting on the floor to learn chemistry and biology in schools the governor cannot allow his relatives to attend. Such a society cannot escape doom.

In that “offensive” article, I asked, sarcastically: “What is the way forward? More policemen? More bullet-proof SUVs? More private jets? More Banana Islands? More signs of ‘military zone, keep off’?” I then replied myself: “I don’t know, but I have a hunch that more equitable management of resources could be of help. I suspect that more jobs, more housing, more medicine, more books, better roads, and better power supply would be of use. I suspect that less looting, less waste of resources would go some way. But if things continue the way they are, there is no doubt about it: one day, the long-suffering people of this country will react. They will rebel. Mark my words.”

The rebellion seems to be in full motion today as Nigerians groan under the pandemic of kidnapping, banditry, terrorism, internet fraud and all kinds of criminality. Worse still, the security system cannot protect either the rich or the poor. We should ask ourselves how we got here. One of my favourite Yoruba proverbs, as oft-repeated by my late grandmother, says “when a child stumbles, he looks at his front; when an adult stumbles, he looks at his back”. Someone else would add: “Where did the rain begin to beat us?” If only we could retrace our footsteps, we will gain insight. We can then begin to sow a different seed today so that we can reap a different harvest tomorrow.

Last week, I watched as some members of the house of reps took turns to lament the state of insecurity in the country. One speaker after the other complained that they can no longer travel to or sleep in their villages because of insecurity. They are overwhelmed by the army of criminals. However, they just cannot see a link between their greed — their obscene allowances, their extortion-driven oversight activities as well as the padded budgets — and the poverty and insecurity in the land. That is the problem with Nigerian politicians: they think Nigeria is like this by mistake. They think if we are able to deploy more troops, kidnapping will stop. If only it were that simple!

Let me say this yet again: the Nigerian ruling elite need to have a meeting, perhaps a “meeting of minds”, and agree to change their ways. We cannot continue to run a system of an overfed elite minority and a malnourished majority and expect to keep travelling to the village in glittering SUVs without consequences. No. It won’t work. We cannot run a system where the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and expect peace. We have been living a lie for too long. Commonsense tells us that inequality comes with a price. We cannot sustain a system that ruins the lives of the majority of 200 million Nigerians and hope to sleep and snore at night.

Although the economic downturn in the last five years and some of the policies of President Muhammadu Buhari are implicated in the current socio-political crises, the truth remains that for too long, we ignored the warning signals. For decades, the UNDP told us that 70 percent of Nigerians were living on less than $1 a day. What did we do to prevent the incoming disaster? It was all Greek to us. We spent our petrodollars as if there would be no tomorrow. Well, today is yesterday’s tomorrow. You don’t have to be a development expert to know that any country where the bulk of the youth are unemployed or unemployable is headed for chronic insecurity.

Don’t take my word for it. Check the poverty and unemployment rates of countries with the least incidence of crime and you will get a better idea of what I am driving at. When young men and young women wake up in the morning with nowhere to go, they are tempting the devil. He will give them something to do. Their energies will be misused and abused as they struggle to survive. No human being will sit down at home and die of hunger. Survival is a basic human instinct. The human being will survive by any means necessary — even if it is to steal, beg or borrow. The police and the army combined cannot contain crime when the factory producing criminals has not been closed.

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. We have sown the wind and we are reaping the whirlwind. The teens and teenagers that we refused to care for yesterday have become our nemesis today. They are now in our neighbourhood and on the highway, making life unbearable for us. The security system we failed to overhaul and modernise for ages — despite security budgets in billions of dollars — is now unable to protect us. But if I may ask, what are we doing today to make sure our trouble does not double tomorrow? Are we investing properly in the future? Are we striving hard to make the country conducive in the future so that ordinary people can enjoy the basics of life? The elite must realise that it is in their own interest to make Nigeria habitable. This milking must subside.

Until the elite across board reach a consensus to curtail their greed and put Nigeria first, we cannot begin to make meaningful progress as a nation. Our predatory system will continue to breed terrorists, kidnappers, ritual killers, yahoo boys and circumstantial sex workers. What we are witnessing today would be child’s play compared to what is ahead. Nobody is safe in Nigeria, including those who think they are covered by a convoy of armed escorts. It is just a matter of time. Until we begin to sow the good seeds at all levels — federal, state and local — our troubles will keep multiplying. Nigeria will not develop overnight, but if we fail to act decisively and intelligently today, we cannot hope to reap gainful jobs, lasting peace, security and national prosperity tomorrow.

SimonKolawolelive By Simon-Kolawole, Email: simon.kolawole@thisdaylive.com,

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bigtt76:
I understand your pain but it seem more less an issue caused by your own people placed in charge of these projects. Was proper feasibility studies carried out during the siting of the free trade zone?

Feasibility done at the time or not is inconsequential. I am asking, if this airport was in Kano or Jigawa, would they have pumped money to revamp it or shot it down?

It's a federal airport and not owned by Enugu state. Let's stop playing politics because our kids are watching and only a matter of time, these generation of leaders will go

Okay.

On another news

DOWNGRADING ENUGU AIRPORT IS AN AFFRONT AGAINST IGBOS

You want to play politics with economic growth APC

You want to downgrade Enugu International airport...the ONLY international Airport that services the South East States because of "safety."

Did you shut down an airport in an active terrorist zone? even after that Airport was attacked by terrorists and military helicopters destroyed?

I dont like to post like this but this is getting out of hand...if this Airport was in Lagos or Kano with the same "safety concerns" ......would you downgrade it?

You are asking the free trade zone be relocated? to where? Zamfara? is the nearness to an INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT not a key reason why many will site their factory in an inland Free Trade Zone?...

(The Enugu Free Trade Zone is the ONLY FTZ in the entire SE states... All States and Regions have one, some even two....but I digress)

When the South East got this International Airport I remember the pride, joy and excitement.....over a "common airport".....many posted.....they can never understand.....like saying the Second Niger bridge is a "common bridge"

Why is is that Projects that impact the South East have issues?

Second Niger Bridge was the only major stopped for "review" by Infrastructure Commission wasting 2 solid years

Dredging of the entire river Nigeria to create a massive port in Onitsha need Environmental Impact Assessment.

All these actions can delay but cannot stop the economic growth of the SE, rather that building speed bumps, go and build expressways, that growth is Nigeria's growth.

That question asked, I will state this proverb to the Enugu State Government, "if you are near fire, dont rub palm oil on your own body..".

Relocate the market, remove the mast...maybe they will then say it's too hilly for International flights.

Before you ask...yes I am playing the victim card....so post something else....we know you love Nigeria more than I.

Introduction

Tinubu should brace up. He angered the North when he arrogated himself the national leader of APC.

Again, people said there will be no Buhari presidency without Tinubu.

The north will either come after him sooner than later or make sure his ambitions and that of Osibanjo is is ditched.

The South will never learn till it’s late.

Lalasticlala have you seen

Mrs. Hannatu Mohammed

PROFILE:

PERSONAL DATA

Date of Birth: March 20th, 1992
State of Origin: Jigawa State
Local Gov’t Area: Dutse
Education

Essence International School, Kaduna. 1995-2001
El-Amin International School, Abuja. 2001-2002
El-Amin International School, Minna. 2002-2008
(Secondary School Leaving Certificate SSCE, West African Examinations Council WAEC)

Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. 2009-2014
Bachelor Of Pharmacy (B.Pharm) Degree.

Ahmadu Bello University Distance Learning Centre 2018- Date
Masters in Business Administration, MBA (Human Resource) (In View)



WORKING EXPERIENCE

El-Amin International School Abuja 2008-2009
Teaching internship.

H-Medix Pharmacy and Stores Adetokumbo Ademola Crescent, Abuja. 2012
Industrial Attachment (I.T) SIWES Program.

National Agency For Food And Drug Administration And Control (NAFDAC) 2014-2015
Pharmacy Internship Program at the pharmacovigilance and post-marketing surveillance unit, ports inspection directorate, technical service directorate as well as the drug evaluation and research directorates.

Independent National Electoral Commission Clinic (INEC Clinic) 2015-2016
National Youth Service Corp as a pharmacist at INEC clinic

Orphans and women support Foundation (OWSF) 2016- Date
Volunteer Pharmacist

Green Forest Pharmacy 2017- 2018
Superintendent Pharmacist in charge of all pharmacy activities including procurement from the pharmaceutical market and company representatives, inventory taking and staff management.

Appointed Board Member ICPC, on 4th February 2019 by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR.


https://icpc.gov.ng/about-icpc/mrs-hannatu-mohammed-honourable-member/

TRUE LIFE STORY. IM CURRENTLY ON IT.

We live in a very trying and perilous times. A very dear friends undergraduate's 17yr old son got drowned at the Dome hotel pool in a
Abuja last weekend. He was in the company of his friends.

The friends didn't report to the hotel mgt what happened nor to the deceased's (Emmanuel Balogun) parents. They went back to the school (Uni Abuja) hostel immediately after the incident.

On Monday a young girl from uni abuja called the mother of the deceased that they did not see Emmanuel her son in class. She went further to tell the parents it's like something has happened to Emma and ended the call.

The mother called back the line but it was switched off. She notified her husband & they immediately placed a call to their sons number and it was off. They drove that Monday night to their sons hostel but met his absence.

They now got information that a party was thrown for fresh year students over the weekend at the Dome hotel in town. They set forth for the hotel. The hotel mgt told them there was a case of drowning in their hotel over the weekend & directed them to the police.

The police now led them to the mortuary, lo & behold it was their son. Yesterday morning, myself & the deceased uncle went to the police to see the CCTV footage of what transpired @ the hotel.

What I saw and later heard yesterday was unbelievable. From the CCTV, we noticed the deceased entered the pool with 3 of his friends and around 3.33am he started struggling in the pool. His friends where all watching him until he stopped struggling and drowned.

They all left the pool immediately and one took his handset the other took his trouser and brought out the money inside the pocket and wore his shoes. They left the hotel around 4.18am according to the footage we saw.

The police went to the school & effected the arrest of the trio and management of the hotel. At the DIG's office yesterday afternoon, I heard something that has being giving me cold shivers all through yesterday and right now.

One of the boys said that he wanted to raise an alarm to save the boy but the other two boys asked him not to. That the deceased is always doing shakara because his father his rich, he went further to say that the other one said all the girls are always admiring the deceased so he should let him be joor.

This are just mere 17/18yr old boys . Watching the CCTV footage where the friends were watching him drown and collectively decided, cos there was a time they grouped together to discuss for about a minute & from the confession of one of them is not only traumatic for me but also disheartening. They watched their "Friend" die out of jealousy & envy. According to them, it was the deceased that paid 2k each gate fee for them and also bought fish and juice which they all drank. This are mere teenagers with that kind of heart.

My people, be extra careful for people you call your friends. According to the DIG, A lot of people are being murdered daily cos of envy from friends. No doubt, There are good and wonderful friends but also, know ye, there are also friend-enemy everywhere. So be extra careful and prayerful cos the love of many has really waxed cold.

The young man was buried today amid tears according to the wishes of his parents but his wicked friends & hotel mgt are still in police custody at the force headquarters as we speak.

May none of us bury any of our children or young ones in Jesus name. Amen. Beware of jealous & Envious friends they are more lethal and toxic than acid.

Below is the picture of the young man whose death would have being avoided.

Lol

Can someone remind Gandollar that his tenure is only 4 years and Emir has another 30 years on the throne.

He can't win this fight. 4 years from now him and Buhari will be gone. Sanusi will be there

lalasticlala onenof our own was elected last weekend

Campaigns

A Nigerian woman Abigail Marshall Katung from Kaduna state becomes first African to win the 2nd of May 2019 Council elections.

People left Nigeria to an unknown land. They were accepted. They go for elective positions and whites queue up to elect them because of their competence.

In my country, they trace your ancestors to determine whether you should be voted for or appointed. I weep for my country after seeing other climes.

If Abigail returns to Nigeria no matter how competent she is. They will subject her to religious bias and ethnic chauvinism till she is frustrated and bows out.


Warmest Congratulations to her.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest/leeds-council-election-pictures-show-the-night-s-wins-and-losses-1-9746705/amp

Election Results.

https://www.leeds.gov.uk/your-council/elections/leeds-city-council-election-results?ward=Little%20London%20and%20Woodhouse

I have never heard of this guy till this drama. Yet they say he is a top rapper

Lol

Tell us another thing EFCC.

You people should learn to surprise us a little na.

Its no longer asset declaration

Hmmmm

Benwems:
How do they seal bag? Kindly explain.

Its called wrap

Swtcherries:
How do you seal your bag?

It's in most airports. The one in Abuja airport is not working