₦airaland Forum

Edipet:
give 5 reasons why you prefer Tinubu?

God1000:
Akwa Ibom is for Labour party.

APC should forget South south, Southeast, North Central and some states in other zones

herkeem:
Akwa Ibom is Batified

ArchiLimited:
Bros, I don't have issues with the first part of your write-up. But the second part puts you in the same category as so called people who come here to peddle lies. First off, there's NO part of Nigeria right now that is in ideal condition as it ought to be, less so the east. But calling the east a hunger ravaged region in comparison to some other places, plus those other things you spewed, simply means you have zero idea of what you're saying but just using imaginary hearsays that suits you. No difference from the people you came to bash unfortunately. If you want to raise prayers, raise it for your locality where you are as I suspect they would need it more. They don't need your clout chasing prayers in the east they would do just fine without it

Mazisimonekpa:
International passport ready soon

Mazi Simon Ekpa

Okoroawusa:
inwere okwu?

Traders in Anambra state, under the umbrella of Anambra State Markets Amalgamated Traders Association, ASMATA have decried what they identified as monumental economic losses they incur on weekly basis during Monday’s sit-at-home exercise in the state.

They however called for the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu to forestall further weekly sit-at-home exercises.

President-General of ASMATA, Chief Humphrey Anuna who disclosed this weekend during their quarterly meeting of all the market chairmen in the state, said he wished anything at all could be done to stop further sit-at-home.

Anuna noted that the most unfortunate aspect of it was that even if the traders themselves sum up the courage too open the markets and their shops on Mondays, no customers would come out to patronize them, out lout of fear of the activities of sit&at-home enforcers.

He appealed to the federal government to expedite action in completing the verdict of the Court of Appeal which had since ordered that Kanu should be released unconditionally and paid compensation.

On the incessant fire outbreaks in the markets, Anuna disclosed that market leaders and their vigilante commanders would henceforth be held liable for any more fire outbreaks in the markets.

DriverX:
Like APC

IGBOSON1:
You have a sick preoccupation with anything to do with Ndigbo even though you despise them passionately! No be madness be dat!?

It should be obvious to observers by now that you Igbo haters are the ones driving this sit-at-home narrative….both on media and occasionally on the ground by going out to commit murder just to try and sustain the element of fear!

IPOB have long since cancelled said sit-at-home, but you vile bigots have seen it as an opportunity to try and weaken Peter Obis’ south-east support base! This is what all this is about now and why you insist on trying to keep the issue in public discourse and social-media!

You are either Yoruba or Fulani (if i’m mistaken then tell us your ethnicity), and can’t imagine a situation where those you’ve seen as ‘defeated slaves’ can be president of your ‘one Nigeria’…..a position you see as reserved only for the Fulani or Yoruba!

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, on Sunday announced the arrest of five leaders of a drug syndicate operating in different parts of the world in a special operation that lasted weeks. The operation led to the seizure of different quantities of skunk, methamphetamine and ephedrine as well as air compressors used to conceal and distribute the illicit drugs globally.

A statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, revealed that the cartel leaders were spread across the United Arab Emirates, Benin Republic, Togo, Oman, Thailand, the European continent, and in Anambra, Imo and Lagos states.

Babafemi said while on Christmas and New Year holidays in various parts of Nigeria, the cartel leaders were still coordinating efforts to send illicit consignments to Dubai and other parts of the world.

Their cover was blown on December 29 when their freight agent, Onyeisue Chukwudi was arrested by NDLEA officers at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

Chukwudi attempted to export three big automobile air compressors to Dubai and a follow-up operation led to the recovery of additional five compressors in his home at 24 Legacy Road, Ayobo, Lagos.

A total of 27.50kgs of skunk were taken out of the air compressors after welding tools were used to cut them open.

After discovering that the agent was working for a bigger organized criminal group, the NDLEA deployed operatives to track the first kingpin, Onuoha Obioma who lives in the Benin Republic and Togo but visited Lagos occasionally.

On January 7, Obioma walked into the waiting arms of operatives with a bag containing additional air compressors used to conceal 15.7kg of skunk and methamphetamine.

His statement led to the unravelling of two other cartel leaders – Dubai-based Ugo Kelechi and an Anambra-based businessman, Iwueke Ugochukwu aka Odugwu, who were still enjoying the Christmas and New Year holidays in Imo.

They were arrested during an operation on January 10 at their ancestral homes in Umuobi village in Igbejere community, Ihitti-Uboma LGA, Imo where a Lexus SUV and a Toyota jeep were recovered from them.

After days of surveillance, the NDLEA eventually nabbed the cartel boss, Ezenwekwe Obinna, an automobile parts dealer at Alaba International Market, at a bar in Mazamaza, Mile 2, on January 14.

“A search of his home led to the recovery of 607g of ephedrine, a handful of cannabis weighing 20g as well as other paraphernalia, including 271g of dimethyl sulfone used as a cutting agent for ephedrine,” Babafemi said.

Also recovered from him were a chemical precursor and an active ingredient for the production of methamphetamine, a weighing scale and an international passport.

Meanwhile, the NDLEA also noted that no fewer than 2,601.5 kilograms of cannabis and 102,500 pills of pharmaceutical opioids were seized during interdiction operations across Plateau, Edo, Delta, Taraba, Kogi, Kano, Lagos and Adamawa states in the past week.

Ogbuefi2020:
Rubbish. The scramble for new note is a national issue and has nothing to do with sit at home. Meanwhile the deadline has been extended

There was a scramble in the entire South-East States on Saturday, following the attempt by residents to beat the deadline for the return of old naira notes to banks.

This is even as confusion pervaded the entire region following the early rejection of old notes by most businesses.

DAILY POST reports that this is as a result of the discovery that despite the announcement of the opening of banks on Saturday and Sunday (January 28 and 29) for the collection of old notes, January 30, which is just a day to the deadline, will be sit-at-home.

Secessionist group, Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, had in 2021 declared sit-at-home protest in the South east as a way to drive home the unhappiness of its members for the continued detention of their leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Despite calling off the protest, Mondays every week have continued to witness dull economic activities in the zone.

In most areas where DAILY POST monitored activities, it was discovered that while many residents did not have the new notes to spend, many business concerns were already rejecting the old notes.

As early as 7am on Saturday, the gates of new generation banks, including Fidelity Bank, Access Bank, Zenith, UBA and First Bank, all located along the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway in Awka, were already overtaken by customers, who were waiting to deposit old naira notes in their accounts.

It was the same situation in Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia and Imo States.

Also, at Ukwu Oji area of Awka where there is a concentration of bank branches, the story was not different, as many others also queued up to make withdrawals from Automated Teller Machines (ATM).

The situation was also not different inside the bank branches of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.

At the Enugu-Onitsha expressway branch of Access Bank, customers were seen withdrawing new notes, but there was also a huge number of residents waiting to make withdrawals, just as only two out of the over ten ATM points in the bank were paying.

Meanwhile, in Eke Awka Market, the most popular in the Anambra State capital, traders on Saturday started rejecting the old notes. Though some accepted, many others insisted they didn’t have the time to take them to the bank on Sunday for deposit.

A trader in the provision section of the market, Mr Cornelius Egbe said: “I just came out today (Saturday), just to fulfil all righteousness. I am not hoping to make so much sales, because I stopped collecting old notes on Friday (January, 27).

“I have calculated all these things. Though banks will open today (Saturday) and Sunday, I cannot collect the old notes and go to the bank on Sunday to pay in. By the way, on Monday, there will be sit-at-home, and on Tuesday, which is the last day, there will be too many people in the banks. Many people who are doing big businesses will be coming to deposit their cash, and many of them may have connections with banks, so I cannot take small money and go and queue up for the whole day.”

Many people have faulted the new CBN economic policy, but there are others who have said that the policy may curb inflation, and restore the dignity of the naira.

An Awka resident, a politician, Hon Azubuike Ebe said: “Not that I’m happy with what is happening, but for one week now, I have had N10,000 of the new notes. I have refused to spend it. I have only been using transfers and POS to make payment for everything I needed.

“My wife too has some of the new notes, but I have encouraged her to keep every new note that comes in. We do not know where Nigeria is headed, so if all we need to feed our family after 31 January is the new notes, then we can rely on what we have,” he said.

The family of the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has urged members of the public, to disregard a voice note circulating on social media, asking people to burn government properties.

It said the makers of the voice note did not represent MNK.

The family was reacting to an IPOB allegation on Friday of Kanu being poisoned in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS). IPOB had claimed that there was an alleged plan to systematically eliminate Kanu through poisoning and starvation.

On Saturday the voice note urged people to burn down government properties in retaliation. But Kanu’s younger brother, Kanunta, warned against burning government buildings in the Southeast under the guise that the pro-separatist agitator had been poisoned.

He warned those planning to do so that they were on their own.

“This is to inform the general public that any group or persons planning to go and burn government properties in Biafraland under the guise that MNK is ‘poisoned’ are doing so at their own detriment and it does NOT represent Mazi Nnamdi Kanu or the IPOB vision,” Kanunta tweeted.

stanluiz:
You are fool.

The hardship, Pain and suffering Nigerians are experiencing from Fuel scarcity, epileptic power and this naira design issue is cause by who ?

Anyway, you reason like an Urchin and a zombie.

seunmsg:
How’s this a jab at Tinubu?
Peter Obi urchins are just so silly and senseless. They are now desperately holding on to any available straw no matter how ridiculous.

North4Obi23:
E pain this one die walahi

OGwales:
Is that all

We will still vote him, kill yourself.

Mynd44:
The amount of people whose name will be Kazeem here eh…