₦airaland Forum

ImperialYoruba:
TO walk successfully from Bridge Head, to Upper Iweka, in Onitsha, any time in the night is to achieve a feat. This is especially so if the person is carrying personal belongings or money. Not many are able to achieve that these days, no thanks to the marauding gangs of criminals, both petty and big time, who have rendered the once safe axis very unsafe for everybody.

Two weeks ago, a business man and his apprentice had just got off a vehicle around 10 pm at the Bridge Head area. There were four young men huddled together a little distance from where the business man got down from the bus. Ordinarily, the scenario would not have raised eyebrows as the young men might just have been cooling off and savouring the cool night air. But no sooner than the business man and his boy got down from the bus than the four young men surrounded them with guns.


The incident is just one of many that have become the lot of those residing or doing business in Anambra State’s biggest commercial enclave. Crime has simply overtaken the city, while the police and other security agencies are quiet, either as a result of incapability to deal with the situation, or because of complicity (or both?)?

Apart from this incident, the entire city of Onitsha has been ravaged by crime. From Bridge Head to Okpoko and to Fegge, men of the underworld appear to have overwhelmed the security agencies. This has resulted in the killing of five police men in the city within the past one year. There was even this story of a police man whose gun was snatched from him as he got down to eat.

To use the pedestrian bridges at night is equally dangerous as the bad boys are usually on the prowl. Uche Amunike of Fides Newspaper, Awka, has lost her phone thrice in Onitsha to these hoodlums. The third occasion was in front of her house when two men on a bike pulled up in front of her and her daughter in broad day light and brandished a gun before taking their phones.

There are notorious areas in the Onitsha metropolis. They include Okpoko, Fegge and Obosi. Obosi’s case beats the imagination as this has been a known dangerous area for many years now, yet the police have allowed things to continue to degenerate there. It was in this place that popular presenter with the Anambra Broadcasting Service, ABS, and deejay, Magic Fingers, was shot late one evening. He managed to escape with his life and ran straight to the Borromeo Hospital where he was promptly admitted.

And then last Monday, the circulation manager of the Sun Newspapers, Fabian Obi, was murdered in cold blood after a gunman entered his office at Old Market Road and pumped him with bullets thrice before taking his money. The killer atop a waiting tricycle or okada.

The leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Southeast Zone, led by Comrade Chris Isiguzo, Vice President, and Ken Ofoma, Secretary, noted thus: ‘We received with shock the news of the killing of a Sun Newspaper agent in Onitsha, Fabian Obi, by unknown gunmen. This is indeed very tragic. For such to happen at a time the military operation code-named “Python Dance 11”, aimed at checking the rising wave of armed robberies, kidnapping and other forms of crimes, is still on, with soldiers virtually in every nook and cranny of the five Southeast states, makes it more troubling.

‘We also want to remind the Anambra State Government that the primary responsibility of a responsible government is the protection of life and property. Abandoning this responsibility, especially at this critical time when the state is preparing for a major election, resulting in the rising wave of insecurity in the state, indeed speaks volumes of the government’s commitment to security of life. Let the needful be done as quickly as possible because a stitch in time saves nine.’

In Awka, the state capital, criminality in the Okpuno area is well documented. One dare not walk the streets at night with personal effects. To do that is to court a slashed arm or a broken head. One recalls that in a session with the immediate past police commissioner in Anambra State on the menace of criminals in these areas, he had taken offence at the question. But this is not an issue to be parried by feigned annoyance. The danger to citizens of the state in these areas is real and needs to be tackled.

Onitsha is central to Anambra’s economy and allowing hoodlums to overrun the place will hurt the state economically. The failure of government and the security agencies to check the spate of crimes in Onitsha may be counter-productive and this is why everything should be done to check the trend.

The Anambra State Government has done well by investing heavily in security.. The police and other agencies should reciprocate by living up to their responsibilities. Anambra may be among the safest states in the country, but Onitsha is turning out to be the unsafest city. And if the crime indices in this city continues to rise unabated, the safest state may not be very safe after all.

Mr. Atupulazi Jude, editor of Fides Newspaper, wrote from Awka, Anambra State.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/safe-anambra-state/amp/

one of the oyoloba people media lies. Their works of destroying other people's land and culture with false media broadcast for economic and political gain can never stop because is a way of life in oyoloba Land( western Nigeria )

The safest state in Nigeria now is Anambra state. That's why traders from the whole of West Africa go there to buy their goods and go home in peace. Am not from that State but I love the peace and business environment of that state

alfaman3:
E don reach wey soldier no dey hide face again. They are more afraid of boko haram than their superiors.

4 more years please.

which 4 more years? Don't you know that if the government is allowed to continue, before 4 years time with the speed boko haram are killing our soldiers, there will be nothing like The Nigerian army, boko haram. Boko haram would have finished them all and take over Aso rock. then rule the whole country like slaves. Please don't tell me that 4 more years again.

zoedew:
We must grow up politically! The US President Trump has been a private businessman all his life! For far too long we have left politics to folks who are largely unfit by reason of the fact that they lack education, life achievement et al. Now is the time ALL including professionals, private sector players etc get involved in participatory politics so the political jobbers who have nothing to their names can be excused. Imagine if Ayodele Fayose were a seasoned professional or businessman before he became a politician!

your narrative is correct and it's the reason why we must support these two seasoned and successful entrepreneurs, ie Atiku/Obi candidacy to pilot and effectively manage the Nigerian Economic project for a better Nigeria. We must sack the looting Champions of APC by February 2019 before they send us all to early grave through their inefficiency, insecurity, looting and pretending, unemployment, high cost of staple food items, increasing petroleum prices without pity for the masses

zoedew:
We must grow up politically! The US President Trump has been a private businessman all his life! For far too long we have left politics to folks who are largely unfit by reason of the fact that they lack education, life achievement et al. Now is the time ALL including professionals, private sector players etc get involved in participatory politics so the political jobbers who have nothing to their names can be excused. Imagine if Ayodele Fayose were a seasoned professional or businessman before he became a politician!

your narrative is correct and it's the reason why we must support these two seasoned and successful entrepreneurs, ie Atiku/Obi candidacy to pilot and effectively manage the Nigerian Economic project for a better Nigeria. We must sack the looting Champions of APC by February 2019 before they send us all to early grave through their inefficiency, insecurity, looting and pretending, unemployment, high cost of staple food items, increasing petroleum prices without

ozo13:
Hehehe.am sure u PPl will quickly show us documents if anything of such exist.u said u have a detail of everything and APC is asking u to release those details to the public if anything of such exist.
We are waiting to see those details u claim u have.
It's not too late for atiku too to enter US .

even if they show you and APC facts on document and video, you will still deny it like they denied that of ganduje of kano despite all the glaring video evidences and personal testimony of the man. I spit on you this pot calling kettle black. I have never seen an hypocrisy of this sort all my life. even the biblical pharisees can't match this wicked APC people in hypocrisy. No wonder they are doing everything humanly possible to remain in power in order to cover their evil forever. My advice is that Nigerians should try and vote out this wicked and hypocritical APC government in February. After that, they will see the reason why the poverty , misery and suffering of Nigerians have increased since the past three and a half years of APC lootocracy regime because all their evil underground looting will be exposed and Nigeria will start working again.

No, we the oyoloba people no go gree.

Okay am from Delta State. Now I will use my powerful influence to move my people to buy pig next week, kill it on Friday morning and spread the blood on every street in Delta state. I will make sure the exercise continue for 10 years. Every Friday in the Niger Delta Region.

Cajal:
...atikuliars and atikuloosers and Atikulooters will believe this

has atiku ever been convicted by the law? If buhari says atiku is a criminal, then let him use EFCC against him. He can't do that because the man is innocent. He only became a looter since he dumped that poverty manufacturing party called APC and moved to the peoples party PDP and finally won the presidential ticket. If you or buhari claim that atiku is a looter even without conviction by the court of law, then your bubu who removed our $1b from our treasury to fight boko haram , yet boko haram is killing our soldiers with reckless abandon every day. Where is the $1b? What did they buy with it? Who did they mobilise with it? By the time buhari will leave aso rock next year, Nigerians will know how corrupt he is. Where did yusuf work to earn 50 million to buy power byke which he got accident with if not from his corrupt and criminal hypocritical father. Yet some gullible people are defending a man who has brought poverty to them through his unquenchable hunger for money and power which was why he plotted a coup and truncated democracy, and later contested 4 solid times to eventually win and then began to recover all the money spent on campaign all these years of attempts. Abeg use your brain jor

EMMAUGOH:
Who are we to blame now since there is no Jonathan to blame

if we don't see any reason to blame Jonathan this time, let's blame him for not sending Ijaw women to go and fight the boko haram. Oya every zoneB start the blame now

Who we go ask? Besides, did you tell Nigerians in 2015 that you will fail them in your first tenor? Did you tell us that the CHANGE you meant was the negative one , blood letting, poverty, herdsmen killings, fuel prices increase, food stuff price increase, transport price increases, election rigging increase, youths are lazy insults, your overseas hospital treatment, destruction of our 2015 Growing Economy and, zero education system. A beg back to daura jare make we atikulate and get Nigeria work again

The owners of lagos have all gone for Xmas celebration. If you want to see the reason why Lagos is this empty, take tour across to the East

Since buhari knows that he and his Co APC travellers have brought the Nigerian Economy to a disastrous state, please let him do the needful by publicly apologising to Nigerians, not only that but he should resign immediately and promise never to go near the corridor of power again nor to think of contesting any election in Nigeria even if is local government chairman

Mperaw:
https://i0.wp.com/planetnewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Fashola-1.jpg?resize=768%2C432&ssl=1

If you don’t have electricity, it is not the Federal Government’s problem, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, stated.
Fashola, who disclosed this while speaking at the Nextier Power Dialogue on Wednesday night in Abuja, told his listeners that there were problems in the power sector, but reminded them that it was not the Federal Government’s problem if citizens in the country do not have electricity, especially since the sector was privatised.
https://planetnewsng.com/its-not-fgs-fault-if-nigerians-lack-electricity-fashola-reacts/

was the light constant before privatisation? APC Failed party and failed government and failed promise.

teufelein:
Now compare the right palm of the man of 2018 with the right palm of the man of CNN of 2015

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/09/africa/startup-lessons-nigerian-election-buhari-campaign/index.html?no-st=1544098785&fbclid=IwAR2k9_U_asuWe9TGDoz3ZJJUy6c7Rza2eAR65hr523BqappflhICpHIXvKk

the difference is clear 7up

Good plan

amaechi2020:
SEE HOW HE LABELLED NIGERIA.

WELCOME TO NIGERIA :

•The land of generals without war,
•Professors without discovery,
•Politicians without ideology,
•Wealth without prosperity,
•Religion without piety,
leaders without vision,
•The oppressed without worries,
•Courts without justice,
•Criminals without fears,
•History without glory,
•Heroes without honor,
•Schools without learning,
•Artists without taste,
•Intellectuals without thought,
•Terrorists without identity,
•Appointees without life,
•Hunger without famine,
•Change without progress,
•Next level without foundation,
•Democracy without citizens,
•Unity without love,
•Heroes without sacrifice,
•Policies without plans,
•Crime without culprits,
•Saints without humility,
•Integrity without performance,
•Wars without enemies,
•Billionaires without business,
•Youth without dreams,
•And elders without wisdom.

This is the zoological Republic

this is 9ja for real

Did anyone notice that APC always say will be completed by not has been completed. What did they even complete since 3 and a half years ago? Ok I just remembered that they have always completed all election rigging process by conducting inconclusive elections, that's the only completed project of APC

Equity311987:
it seems this man has no access to our resources again and the only way out for him is to start campaigning against this government so that people will vote him out for this man to regain access to our resources

STALE TALK FROM A ZONE B

Baawaa:
You means your father cannot donate 2 million naira

does it mean that your generation worship Satan?

Op you forgot that Lagos was a federal capital teritory and was developed with the resources from south south. If you remove oil money, how can the west cope

haywire07:
i don't think it's an insult to call someone who is drunk a drunkard. And I don't think it's an insult to tell someone who is clueless the truth

what of a leader who claim not to know his age and date of birth.

Is this for real? He looks much younger here actually

bamidelee:
don't die of hatred for this man
ipob terrorist

the alaja steel company, Abiokwuta steel, Nigeria airways, Nigeria refineries, boko haram, medical trips by government officials, improved economy, improved Naira strength, better security, eliminating corruption, reducing poverty, reducing fuel pump price all these and many others that he promised during campaign in 2015 to revive. All that he met are worse since APC and buhari took over. Poverty has increased in Nigeria, no security again anywhere again in the country, promotion of hate speech and divided Nigeria is worse now 97% & 5% vote comes to mind, no thanks to buhari, fuel price increased, cost of living increased, Naira fall in value, herdsmen suddenly became so powerful that they are now recognised as the 4th deadliest terrorist group in the world yet our president fined no reason to declare them terrorists but mere criminals like he called them. Has he eliminated corruption as promised? Corruption is on the increase today in Nigeria. Disunity every where you go. Alaja steel and Abiokwuta steel are forgotten already. After all these promise and fail or promise and deny, you expect sound minds in Nigeria to believe in buhari's promises again because another election in coming? Is only a dullard that will believe buhari ,APC and their fake promises again.

APR have finished us in this country. If they continue in power, by 2023 nobody will remain again

Is a shame that this is from an APC chieftain and leader. This means that any Yoruba woman, Igbo woman, Ijaw woman Urhobo woman, kalaba woman, Isoko woman, Itshekiri woman, or any woman or girl from the southern Nigeria that will support or vote any APC candidate again in life has accepted that she is what el rufai called her

But was saraki ever taller than the buhari we know? I hope someone is seeing what am seeing from that group picture?

patani:
How much was crude oil price before him 114USD and when Buhari came 29USD... you people should learn basic economics before you make comments on internet smh �‍♀️

that's even why he should have reduced fuel pump price and not increase it to the sky and subjected us to to much sufferings like it is today in Nigeria

seunmsg:
They are trying to deceive the south west. Dogara is recontesting and has all the advantage if PDP wins majority of seats in the house. Only a nitwit from the south west would believe this watery promise.

The same way PDP promised south west speakership before the 2011 election. We voted massively for Jonathan and he looked away cinveniently as Tambuwal emerged speaker after election. Despite cries by Obasanjo and Yoruba PDP leaders, Jonathan did nothing about it.

They also promised to zone the party chairmanship to south west after 2015 general election, on the day of the convention, Wike hijacked the position for Secondus from south south and even insulted the entire Yoruba race as inconsequential on national television. Atiku is playing the same game again, we must not fall for it.

please go ahead and vote who ever you wish maybe because of your monthly stipend but don't deceive the wise yorubas . I prefer a leader who's policies and actions will protect lives and properties of the entire Nigeria, a healthy leader who will work his talk and cancel all his campaign promises after election. I prefer a pan Nigerian leader, a non tribal and non sectional leader who is known and loved across Nigeria to a leader., not a leader who has divided Nigeria along 97% & 5% mindset and also acts in that manner. I prefer a leader who can create Jobs and will do so for all Nigerian youths and cut down unemployment rate in Nigeria. I prefer a leader who is prepared for governance and not the one who crippled the Economy due to his incompetency decided to take 6 months before setting up his cabinet and setting up a competent Economic team. I prefer a leader who will reposition and restructure Nigeria so I and my unborn children can have hope in Nigeria again and not a leader who win just chose my kinsman as his ceremonial vice to praticaly oppose restructuring plans of the entire country as agreed at 2014 confab while I have all the powers to the future and present of every tribe in Nigeria as I only give juicy positions and appoint my kinsmen as security chiefs in disregards to federal character.

It's when things are tough and when earnings are low that a manager, a competent leader who is capable of building competent economic team will come and prove his competency just like Obama did immediately he took over from bush, not when all is rosy then you will come to reap glory where you never worked. A good and competent leader accepts responsibilities and tackle challenges Head on and not apportioning blames to the previous government. Let pmb rest so that a competent hand can lift Nigerians out of this wood

You lied. There was no bank phb as at 1999. The bank started 2001 as platinum bank.