₦airaland Forum

ak47mann: I will start by asking all these questions 1:don't u think that crossing d carpet spearheaded by awo was the remote cause of all nigeria?Problem started from when Awo make isthekiri lords over other tribes in n/delta,was the indigenous policy sincere.

For the first time, i see Nigerians on NL asking constructive questions to dissect the root of our problems.
Those playing to the gallery and refusing to acknowledge the mistakes of past leaders just because they are their tribesmen, are just deluding themselves that other Nigerians don't know how we got to the present mess.

Goebbels,Himmler and other Nazi war criminals did much more for Germany than merely provide land for a campus of University of London in ibadan.But that didn't change the fact that they were indeed criminals and were hanged for their heinous crimes against humanity. Prof. Achebe only shed light on this Nigerian war criminal called Awolowo, and wondered why he went to such extreme to commit heinous crimes against humanity. Obafemi Awolowo belongs to the club of these Nazi henchmen and others as Charles Ghankay Taylor,Slobodan Milosevic,Slobodan Rajkovic,Emperor Bokassa etc

As a well educated man,Awolowo was expected to have a rational sense to measure his actions to fall within internationally acceptable norms of war. He cheated the hang man, but history shall remember his inglorious role and no amount of name calling or insult of the erudite Prof. Achebe can change that fact of history.The NPFL rebels in Liberia did the same to insult or maim anyone who dared to speak the truth that Charles Taylor was a war criminal for committing war crimes as using children and hacking off limbs.Well, he lived long enough for the international court of Justice to make him pay for his crimes against humanity.

What is Babatope? Isn't that the name of a cabin biscuit?

I salute Prof. Achebe for shedding light on this period of Nigeria's history which so many had made efforts to confuse and hide what actually took place.Let those who don't like it put a rope around their neck.The great Prof isn't someone that can be intimidated by the cowards that ruined Nigeria.I thank Prof. Achebe for his frankness where everyone else play to the hypocritical gallery.

Achebe spoke the truth. I would have been disappointed if he did not stick to his tradition of speaking what happened,no matter who feels angry that he dared to speak.The truth is the truth even if it took a million years to say it.

May Allah make the oil end this year, so that the sham called country can end.

There is no reliable data on anything in Nigeria.
This is a country where falsification of data is a way of life.If world bank are giving money to the poorest regions,the figure will be cooked to reflect high poverty rates in every region.If the poverty rate is something people life El-rufia would use such statistics to condemn and taunt that area,the figure is cooked up to reflect a very very low poverty rate.
So Nigeria is indeed a failed piece of crap.

obowunmi: Let the yorubas and igbos combine and Nigeria will be great again, Northerner are backwards and should be left out. Let them bomb each other to death.

Yorubas are political gurus

Igbos and Ijebus are entrepreneurial machines.

Everyone else doesn't count.

If for some miracle a great astute political guru can get the East and West to cooperate and restore trust, Nigeria shall be healed. Ojukwu dedicated his life to foster the so called handshake across the Niger, still with limited success.I wonder who can pull off that magic.

Pukkah: Have these people no shame? Why are they so confused on simple issues?

Over 70% of our budget is spent on recurrent expenditure. About 80% of the recurrent expenditure goes to pay the salaries of government personnel. Is this what we get for all this spending?

I had cause to post the following yesterday:



Who will save this government from itself?

Whether you like the President GEJ or not, his protection is perhaps the only guarantee of peace in this country and the life insurance of any northerner living anywhere in southern nigeria.Major blood baths were preceded by assassination of Heads of States.From World war 1, Rwandan genocide to the Nigerian civil war largely also provoked by killing of President Juvénal Habyarimana or Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi in Nigeria's case.
Anything spent to secure a President is a good investment in the peaceful coexistence of a nation.

The Fani-Kayode, Adeniran Ogunsaya, Adekunle Fajuyi families are bona fide Igbo people and shall be welcomed by Igbos forever.
Sometimes I'm disgusted by the behavior of many Yoruba who flip-flop on serious or even un-serious issues. But out of respect for these families, i always say 90 -95 % of Yoruba flip-flop and not 100%. I know God will curse me if i insult these brave de-tribalised Yoruba families as tribalists,something they fought so much against.

I think their aim is to mock and provoke Christians.It is like saying,we have killed thousands of you for fun,but if we mu-slims lose one person in the process,we shall demand billions in compensation for that one person,but the thousands of Christians we have killed are like chicken,whom nobody needs to pay any compensation over.

buffny: we can thank the igbos for this . cus u know aint no yoruba or hausa in south africa selling drugs.

I live in Bloemfontein free state , South Africa and all the gang heads and prostitution ring pimps here are Yoruba people.I mean ALL of them.Most Igbo and Edo people here are medical doctors.I want to know where you live.

Sagamite: You are a cretinous person!

A moronic product of the consequences to the Nigeria's education system of rulers like Abacha!

At the peak of fuel scarcity in 2001,i observed a bunch of soldiers trying to bring order in a filling station where there was a free for all fight over limited fuel,with some threatening to throw a burning cigarette at the area with a bunch of 50 liters fuel jerrycans.The soldiers succeeded,but had injured many people.But they justified their force by saying if the man with the cigarette had lit the place as he had promised to do,everyone would not just be bruised but dead.That is somewhat related to what Abacha did for Nigeria.He didn't annul the June 12th elections,but he had to keep the country from slipping into a Sierra-Leone type of civil war,in which many many more would have perished.

@ Sagamite,

It is a waste time to join issues with an slowpoke.However, History is history.You don't even know your history,but blinded by primordial hatred for a man that did his best to hold his country together.Abacha had to be a firm and decisive leader so that Nigeria would not disintegrate.The same thing you guys criticize GEJ for not being firm on national issues.
By benefit of hindsight,Abacha was a great leader whether you are blinded by tribal emotions or not.All the issues he proposed to do before his death,from national reconciliation and issue of power rotation, which was thrown out of the window by Obasanjo out of hatred for the man that jailed him, are the only solution to Nigeria's crisis today.I concede he made mistakes by thinking he was the only person that could nurture the birth of nascent Nigeria, but judged against what others who came after him did, Abacha was a true patriot who wanted Nigeria to succeed.

Abacha was a very great Nigerian,whose only sin was that he didn't agree to quit after he made the promise to do so.He personally believed he had to be there to guide the birth of a prosperous, glorious Nigeria.
Personally,Abacha was one of the greatest Nigerians for his achievements in just 5 years.The Ijaw for one, would never have had their own state if it was not for him.Also,he was the only Nigerian leader that realized that Nigerians needed some type of dialogue to continue living together in peace after the June 12th issue.

Abacha's triumph as an astute administrator is that inspite of ruling Nigeria at the worst period of crisis,there was never anything like Niger Delta militants or Boko haram.Instead he wanted to bequeath Nigeria a constitutional guarantee that power shall rotate between the north and south every 8 years, which would have permanently ended the tension generated by struggle for political power between north and south.Indeed, Oladipo Diya praised Abacha's skills at mediation and reaching a compromise even in very difficult situations, after Diya observed Abacha's dialogue with Afenifere leader Pa. Abraham Adesanya of blessed memory.

Bayelsa State is indeed right to honor such a great man that gave them freedom and self determination.

Guys ignore this faceless paper tiger Somalia5. Somalis are only experts at making noise.Their women are tired of being oppressed by them and would eagerly run to spread their legs for the so called bantu people.If Somalis don't like it,let them stop being cowards and come out of their caves and fight.

I am surprised everyone is commending Fashola for cleaning up his state,nobody has said he demolished Hausa or Ibo shops.But if Anambra Governor attempts to clean Onitsha, it is immediately made a tribal,political issue.

1.)Nigeria obviously has the most powerful and professional military force in Africa.Nigeria has proven time and again that it is perhaps the only African country that can sustain active combat divisions more than 1000 miles away from her border, in two hot conflicts simultaneously. Yet, still maintain a good presence around the vast nation of Nigeria and around the Bakassi peninsula to deter Cameroon from being tempted to be mischievous there too.

2.)South Africa has the best equipped but untested force.Even though the SADF performed creditably in the Angola bush wars during the apartheid era,but they pretty much lost that conflict to the less equipped MPLA militias.I believe the strength of the SA military is its air-force.But without an aircraft carrier,it really cannot project power, it is purely a force for homeland defense more or less.

3.)Egypt? I don't know anywhere Egypt's armed forces has prevailed by sheer better tactics and training. The Israelis whopped them in the six day way and they capitulated within one week.I don't think the Eqyptian troops are trained hard and well enough.

Our leaders are worse than clowns.So why always seek visa free with very poor countries that cancel the policy as soon as they think their country is getting richer? Visa free with Malawi now?,Babangida made it Visa free to Somalia under Siad Barre,then Visa free with Ghana,then Visa free with Yemen. Why not just seek visa free with hell? Nigerian leaders sef! mshewwww!!!

I think other states should catch anyone they suspect of being poor and depot those to Lagos.That will make it 1;1.Now it is Fashola 1: other states 0

ITbomb: Our last ally was Ghana, now most African due to envy will be laughing in any unfortunate event to happen to Nigeria

No, Nigeria does not have any ally in Africa. Perhaps,Nigeria's last ally was Great Britain.
Ghana was NEVER Nigeria's ally. Ghana latched on the fact that it spoke English in West Africa and milked Nigeria for anything it could benefit from that linguistic advantage.Unfortunately,the made the mistake of deporting Nigerians which was reciprocated by Nigeria in 1980s. Today,because the Ghanian economic growth rate is high,they have already started the talk of deporting the evil Nigerians. Forgetting it was Nigeria that ensured they had cheap oil all these years to survive and even the West African gas pipeline powering their electricity in Nigeria's. Nigeria is the biggest investor in Ghana's economy and university system .

Ghana,like typical African countries are only in it for what they can extract from Nigeria. The minute they suspect they have the advantage,the show their true colors and spite Nigeria in the face.

Personally, i feel this is the only way to save Nigeria. Many Nigerians have serious grudges against the country.Fortunately most of these grudges center on corruption,wasteful government structures,the struggle for presidential power etc, these issues can be resolved and a formula worked out to share power. I hope Nigerians iron out their differences around a table

Mr.chippychappy:
[size=15pt]The Parasites in Nigeria go dey fear now . You know yourselves [/size]

It is a very good thing to allow Nigerians talk to each other through their ethnic and religious leaders,instead of pretending that the largely unelected kids in the national assembly were true representatives of their people.I believe Nigeria will be better as a united country,if we all agree to make representation fair for all Nigeria's peoples, decide on devolution of power,the type of system we can afford as a nation,if we really need two houses (Senate and the House of Reps) costing this nation a whopping 25% of her budget to maintain, and the number of government units States and LGAs we actually need or can afford to develop optimally.The issue of citizenship, and what are the guarantees of a Nigeria citizen and indigene.The issue of power rotation and religious tolerance will be enshrined in the constitution. If we work with the enormous resourceful gift Nigerians are endowed with,Nigeria shall become a very prosperous place.
Abacha achieved a lot as Nigeria's leader simply because he allowed Nigerian to talk.Then he realized the issues and promised to hold a national dialogue every 10 years to trash out outstanding issues.Abacha's regime had the least sectarian strife and open hatred amongst frustrated Nigerian.

Celebrate Nigeria Are you kidding What have we achieved this year that worth me spending money and calling people to celebrate about Nigeria?
I have been mourning the gradual but steady demise of Nigeria since 1984,when those motherf..... coupists rushed into State House Marina to forcefully remove Alhaji Shehu Shagari from office illegally, while he was struggling to recharge our economy in spite of oil glut, without taking IMF loans.

I personally don't like the male Ghanians.Their females are usually polite,intelligent and with a modern world view.Their males are usually filled with serious inferiority complex and unnecessary jealousy.Especially the Twi and Asante amongst them. The Ewes seem more educated and sophisticated in their world view. I guess the average Ghana man attitude has to do with the psychological trauma that comes with many years they remained one of the poorest countries in Africa.Anyhow, the Ghanian males are usually unintelligent and almost primitive in their thinking.

B-i-g-o-t-r-y and h-a-t-r-e-d from i-n-j-u-s-t-i-c-e !!!

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Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has solicited for assistance to tackle the effects of ravaging floods.

He made this call Saturday while touring the affected local governments of Ayamelu, Ogbaru, Anambra West and Anambra East.

The governor, who had a hectic day accessing the affected areas in canoe, cancelled his planned trip to Mexico tomorrow on the reason that it is only a man devoid of feeling for his people that would travel out from the state for whatever reason, while his people faced dangers of death and displacement.

”The only trip I am disposed to undertake for now is answering calls to come for aid for the affected communities or for discussions on how to mitigate the suffering of those affected”, the governor said.

Governor Peter Obi , with Anglican Bishop of Mbamili, Most Rev. Henry Okeke transversing what was once a sprawling community of Umueze Anam in a boat.

In some of the communities he visited, he held meetings with the stakeholders on the best possible way to render immediate assistance to the people. Besides giving directives to his cabinet members from affected communities to stay with their people and take charge of government support to them in the form of relief materials, the state has also set up camps for the displaced and sent vehicles and boats to evacuate those who are trapped in different parts of Anambra including those taking refuge on tree tops.

In some of the places visited, flood has completely taken over. Buildings as tall as three stories and palm trees were completely covered by flood.

“ We have not borrowed a dime or raised bond, but the crisis we are facing now is better seen than explained. We will continue to do everything possible to see that our people are taken care of even if it means borrowing this time around”, Obi said.

At Ogbaru, Obi visited some camps where women were seen cooking food for the displaced. After monitoring events, he ordered more ambulances to be sent to some accessible camps for medical emergencies.

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Kenyan troops take control of Shabaab stronghold Kismayu

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Up gallant Kenya and Uganda troops!!!
Where are those Al-shabab cowards always making noise that Kismayo was an impossible objective for AU to capture? We now know they were real cowards and rapists who couldn't stand and fight real men,but took pleasure in killing women and children for fun.