₦airaland Forum

‘ Federal Might can’t Transform Pot-belle to Pregnancy.’

Jesus!!!
See finishing...
This Reno will not make heaven

Ordinary Tecno

Hiss

What’s was in the envelope?

Well, my own experience is different here.

Just two days ago (March 26th) , at about 9:30 am, I walked into the Nigerian Embassy in Berlin, Germany for my Nigerian Passport renewal . I can post the picture here online if you want .

At exactly 1:30 pm, I walked out of the embassy with my renewed passport (64 pages).


Note this:
I didn’t book any fucking appointment non made any payment online, cos the earliest date I could see was from September. I filled the form, made the payment and other necessary things right inside the embassy.

So, my dear OP, you know how things work with Nigerians . If you so much need something so importantly and urgently, try to Know who Know.

Abeg, make una help me tell the retired local Taylor.

clarocuzioo:
Prof. Akintola, please kindly push for an Islamic country to be carved from Nigeria where the Sharia Law, and Islamic principles will be fully Implemented without any disturbance from anybody, we will gladly support you.

It's very Ironical that these people shouting Islam in Nigeria will only go to Saudi Arabia for Hajji, but will choose countries like America for tourism because they actually enjoy the freedom there.

Exactly my thought

Brutality

Senegalese....
Hmmmmm Muslims , that’s how they behave. They are all potential terrorist .

Okorocha should stop wasting his time, he knows the cause of his problems.
If he wants his certificate of return he should just go and beg Oshiomhole, that’s all. His problem will be over in a twinkle of an eye.

Your religion and tradition made you who you are today, yet you have to travel to the western world to get a western education.

You should have stayed back in your north to get your education through traditional/ religious amajiri way..

soberdrunk:
When you have an arrangement with angels for USA but you end up in Vietnam........

Lol

Why do these northerners love begging self? Is it a part of their culture or religion?

Lol

My two crush ...
I love them both

Here in Germany, this is what came up

NaijaRoyalty:
By Ikechukwu Amaechi

LESS than 48 hours from now, Nigerians will elect a new president. There is, understandably, both excitement and anxiety in the air. Whichever way the election goes, its outcome will be consequential.


I am as excited as I was four years ago. This time in 2015, I had concluded that President Goodluck Jonathan was not fit for purpose and supported the then candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari.

Today, I have also concluded just as I did four years ago that President Buhari is not fit for purpose and I am determined to ensure that as Jonathan was sent back to Otuoke, he is sent back to Daura.

There are two groups of Nigerians opposed to Buhari’s re-election.

The first are those who ab-initio never saw anything good in him; never believed in his capacity and who perceived him as a dyed-in-the-wool dictator and irredeemable ethnic jingoist. Such people are not disappointed at the unravelling of the Buhari presidency and the sentiment is more of: “But we told you.”

The second are those who believed that Buhari was actually a democracy-convert as claimed, who had purged himself of unbridled nepotism and could actually provide the leadership Nigeria sorely needed, despite his antecedents. I belong to this group.

Economic policies

I had just left secondary school when Buhari shot himself to power on December 31, 1983. At the time his colleagues dislodged him from his high perch on August 27, 1985, I was in the higher institution.

So, I knew firsthand what he did in the 20 months he was in office as a maximum military ruler.

His regime’s warped economic policies, particularly the curb on imports led to job losses and business closures. I witnessed the disingenuous introduction of a new currency supposedly to tackle corruption and the consequence. Prices rose, living standards fell, and Nigerians were queuing up for essential commodities.

I witnessed the retroactive application of a law under Buhari’s watch leading to the public execution of three young Nigerians convicted of drug peddling, a crime that did not carry a death penalty at the time it was committed.

But I believed him when he said he was a changed person. I convinced myself that he would put together a formidable team and provide the disciplined leadership that was sorely lacking in the preceding administration.

At 72, I reasoned that Buhari must have purged himself of every vestige of ultra-ethnic agenda, having fully come of age.

How wrong I was.

Some Nigerians are of the view that in spite of everything, President Buhari will be re-elected. In arriving at this conclusion, they deploy illogical reasoning and hackneyed permutations, ignoring the fact that unlike in 2015, Saturday’s election is a referendum on the Buhari presidency. Try as hard as APC is doing to put Jonathan on the ballot, truth is, he is not and cannot be.

Besides, the conditions that made the 2015 Buhari victory a fait accompli have changed dramatically.

In 2015, Jonathan’s candidature united the North behind Buhari. The support from the South West became an icing on his victory cake.

But even at that, Buhari won the presidential election with only 2.57 million votes, scoring 15,424,921 votes (53.95 percent) of the 28,587,564 total valid votes cast against Jonathan’s 12,853,162 (44.96 percent).

In 2015, Buhari received 2.4 million South West votes, with a plurality of 600,000 over Jonathan. Even in Lagos, with all the noise and the fabled Bola Tinubu factor, APC prevailed with only 160,000 votes.

In 2015, Jonathan ran on his records and failed because Nigerians didn’t think much of the scorecard he presented and Buhari ran on promises, propaganda and lies.

Now, that paradigm has shifted. After four years in office, Buhari will run this election not on promises, innuendoes and propaganda but on the record of his achievements in office.

The simple but important question that will agitate the minds of discerning, albeit ordinary, Nigerians as they cast their ballot on Saturday is: Am I better off today than I was four years ago?

Buhari lost the South East and South-South zones in 2015 when the crocodiles were not smiling and pythons were not dancing.

Things have changed dramatically since then. Today, pythons are busy exhibiting new and fatal dance steps in the South East every year with dire consequences for beleaguered youths of the region.

When Buhari won the presidency in 2015, the Shiites were part of the 15,424,921 that made the victory possible. Before the election, Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, led Buhari to visit the leader of the group, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, at his Kaduna lair to seek support. He was obliged.

A lot has happened since then. In 2015, the Zaria massacre occurred during which 348 Shiites (some accounts put the number at over 1000) were killed by Nigerian soldiers and buried in mass graves. The dead included three children of Zakzaky. Since then, he has been locked up together with his wife even when the courts have granted them bail.

In April 2018, clashes broke out as the Nigeria Police fired teargas at Shiites protesters who were demanding the release of Zakzaky. The clashes left many dead and several others injured. The police detained at least 115 of the protesters. In October 2018, Nigerian military again killed at least 45 peaceful Shiites protesters.

Today, el-Rufai, the President’s Man Friday has exacerbated the distrust between Christians of Southern Kaduna and Muslims in the state.

Benue, a stronghold of the PDP had no IDP camps before 2015. They voted for Buhari, elected an APC governor. Today, thousands of indigenes live in IDP camps in Makurdi, afraid to go to their ancestral homes that have been taken over and effectively occupied by armed herdsmen.

In 2015, the ubiquitous and very powerful college of retired generals that have determined how the political pendulum swung since the first military coup of January 15, 1966 were in Buhari’s column.

Today, many of them, including Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida, Theophilus Danjuma, Aliyu Gusau, are not.

And some people say it does not matter. Really?

In 2015, the all-powerful Lagos-Ibadan wing of the human and civil rights community were behind Buhari. Today, some of them, including Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, have distanced themselves from him

In 2015, some of the country’s most prolific and powerful columnists were with Buhari. Today, the likes of Farooq Kperogi, Sonala Olumhense and Dele Momodu have openly rebelled against him.

In 2015, the international community, particularly the U.S. under President Barack Obama’s watch and Britain with David Cameron as Prime Minister, overtly supported Buhari. I doubt if those countries are still queuing behind him today.

In 2015, Buhari contested against Jonathan, a Southern minority Christian with no political base. Today, he is running against one of the most formidable politicians in this dispensation, a man with a solid political base, clout and deep pocket, a Fulani Moslem, from a region – North East – that last held power when Alhaji Tafawa Balewa from Bauchi State was the Prime Minister in the First Republic.

In 2015, APC went into the elections as a united, pragmatic and determined party hungry for power, eager to make a resounding political statement against a highly fractious, disorganised and disoriented PDP. Today, the reverse is the case. A strong, rejuvenated and virile PDP is going into Saturday’s election with a highly fractured, hemorrhaging APC where some governors are not in talking terms with the national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole.

In 2015, it was the PDP presidential campaign convoys that were stoned, booed and jeered. Today, it is the APC. On Monday, President Buhari nearly took a stone meant for Oshiomhole at a campaign rally in Abeokuta.

Yet, some people insist that Buhari still has his fabled 11 million votes locked up somewhere.

 PDP has been able to dramatically reinvent itself and stage a remarkable comeback, APC cannot because of its inherent contradictions.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/02/the-odds-against-buhari-on-saturday/

Very good analysis, I 100% agree with u

Salvador1:
Even val msg buhari can't send to his supporters

Or does it mean val is corrupt

Lol [left][/left]

Offpoint:
First time I'm hearing about her though, not my fault... I rarely listen to Nigeria songs.

heard that uyo meyo on a radio station I thought it was Yemi Alade.

You are from which planet ?

My crush for life

Does Buhari even know what it’s all about?

ridbell01:
one ipod spotted

Na your father be IPOD.

The girl/lady is a fool






And Its FTC with 400+ likes on the first day of the month. WOW, this new month go better for us o.

Kenzico:


You Love the money and Not the girl....Nonsense

Frankly, it’s not about the money directly.
What I love about her is that despite the fact that she is in mist of plenty money, she still try to live like a normal person, without arrogance and pride.

And also , she looks so cute to me too, a the kind of girl I do love to hang out with.

Personally, I love this girl

If I hear say e no enter front page ?

I pray o

Soon, they will blame this on Christians, hence giving our northern Muslim brothers the opportunity to carry out what Mohammed commanded them to do to Christians and other so called non-believers.

U dey mind them ?

KINGwax007:
that's a lie. The names or words doesn't and wouldn't sound English. It's the written aspect that looks like English word.

Just joking you're right

Why didn’t you read and understand before you comment?

Wow

Hmmmm

Dpharisee:
This is sad

Farooq Kperogi

New IGP: Why Progressive Northerners Should be Embarrassed

In August 2015, when I first publicly voiced out my disapproval of what I called the embarrassingly undisguised Arewacentricity of Buhari’s appointments, a few people, mostly southerners, asked why I was bothered since I'm a northern Muslim who is “favored” by such appointments—“favored,” that is, on the emotional and symbolic plane. I was—and still am—bothered for at least four reasons.

One, I criticized similar such parochial appointments by previous presidents from the South. It would be hypocritical to look the other way because I'm now “favored” by such appointments. (Yes, I have more friends and acquaintances in powerful positions in this government than I’ve ever had since 1999). Two, Buhari came to power on the promise of “change,” on the promise of doing things differently. Three, people from my region and religion won’t always be in power. I want to be able to stand on a firm moral pedestal when I criticize future presidents who replicate Buhari’s (and previous presidents’) provincialism.

Four, and most important, I am personally embarrassed by Buhari’s insularity—and every progressive northerner should be. It’s the sort of embarrassment you feel when your best friend who thinks highly of your mother visits you in your home and your mother, during a family dinner, gives you a considerably bigger food portion size and choicer pieces of meat than your friend. You feel like screaming: “Mom, I know you love me, but you’re embarrassing me by showing overt preferential treatment to me in the presence of my friend.”

That’s precisely how the appointment of yet another northern Muslim Inspector General of Police has made me feel.

Can’t Buhari even pretend for a moment and pleasantly disappoint his critics by appointing someone from the South as IGP?

A northern Muslim DSS boss was fired by VP Osinbajo and the most senior office after him, who turned out to be a southern Christian, was asked to replace him. Instead of confirming his appointment, Buhari, upon his return from London, brought another old northern Muslim from retirement (yes, he was tired, retired, and enjoying the reticence of retirement) and made him the DSS boss without ever interviewing him for the job!

Buhari’s self-defense for his provincial appointments is that he needs to appoint only people he can trust. If after working for more than two decades in the Nigerian military, far and away Nigeria’s most ecumenical institution, he can’t trust anyone outside his cultural, regional, and religious comfort zone, HE IS the problem, not the people he distrusts.

By the way, why does he hanker after the votes of people he doesn’t and can’t trust but whines about getting “only 5 percent” from them when they don’t vote for him?

That’s unreasonable.

You don't trust a people to appoint them to "sensitive positions"?

Then don't ask for their votes--and don't whine when they don't vote for you.