₦airaland Forum

malele: This is a typical youroba reasoning, dey don't like competition, dey want FG to help them get everything and they will be the same people to tell u to go to ur village. Seriously I don't understand the kind of human beings those people are.

childish thinking. your garb of tribalism stinks

cooltone: The last time I checked the principal Nyesom Wike is still a federal minister and speaks in that capacity. Please correct me if am wrong on that.

so his ministry is in charge of agriculture use your brains, now am not supporting him, in a sane society, he ought to be sacked, but dont put the onus of his actions on the fg,but rather on his person.

Awakullowo: FFK, you are on point. Odua Is with you on This.
Omo ale ni awon ibo (ibos are bast..d especially the OP)

to ba je be, omo ale na ni ffk, ati iwo.
stop coming online to show your uncouth self. i believe there is no difference btw you and boko haram "brainwashed".

as for ffk, i have this to say, "o un doju ti awa omo yoruba". if not, you would do as your forebears did, criticize constructively, with maturity and reasoning a very important virtue. engaging blindlessly in criticizing when you are no different, shows you for who you are 'a hypocrite', a 'child' man, who in seeking relevance employs all tacts. FFK,grow up and stop embarassing our race

this guy, i swear, whatever weed he is smoking wasnt processed properly

some people really ought to criticize appropriately, instead of talking like they never had an education. Blaming Jonathan is just an easy way out, cos you just feel he is responsible for all the woes in the country. i believe the VCs are supposed to run the school with allocations from the fg every year. Might not be much,but the little they get, what have they done with it
i gained admission into unilorin in 2007 and stayed in the hostel, i never for once went into the bush while i stayed in the hostel. Everything was not just clean but maintained. Infact the gals hostel and PG hostels were described as heaven to us. When i stopped residing in the hostel, the innovations introduced almost made me want to go back. From 2007 till i graduated, lecture halls, hostels, and a theatre for the performings arts were built, roads were also constructed, so so many things, all under Oloyede, and Unilorin is a federal school, so i wonder why these things (rot n decay) were not noticed by me, and trust me, i walked the whole length of that school. cant emember the faculty constructed that its students didnt want other students to enter the place. So for me, i see this as a smear campaign, cos unilorin receives allocation from the fg, same as other federal universities

@gbawe, i want you to be as objective as you can be in answering these questions.
1. why award a contract of 8.5 billion for 3500 units of tablet. At what cost per unit. my curiosity got the better of me and i decided to calculate but using the average price of a brand new hp laptop which is 70k. now that is my own bench mark. to get the total amounts of units i would get, i divided the total price (8.5 billion) by the sole unit price (70k). now am not a mathematics guru, but am sure using this method should get me my answer. this is what i got
8.5 billion / 70 000 = 121 428.571

seeing this figure put me off, cos there is no reason why such contract should have been awarded, and if it had to be awarded, why such paltry amount of units for such huge amount.

2. travelled down to osogbo early last year, sometime between April to June. Got there around 11am and boarded a cab which took me past a stadium (cant remember its name). there was this huge holdup caused by students of various schools, some boarded the cab i was in and i asked them why they were not in school. they told me they had come to the stadium for a calisthenics organized by the state govt, they came once every week and were given #1000 anytime they came. when i asked how long it had been going on, i was told that this was the third month. and this kids were almost a thousand, (dnt knw their actual amount). when i got to where i was going, i told the person i went to see that this is what is happening and the person just shrugged, that they are used to it.

my point now is this, waste of public funds for no justfiable reason, and why if you can justify these two acts, i will rest my case and choose to believe he is working.

p.s, just got more info on the opon imo with total units numbering 150 000, my bad on that

malc619: You're inclined to believe what the foolish OP posted because you're a dunce who is incapable of logical thought. A cretin without the ability to separate facts from fiction.

seeing as you are a ne'er do well, whose hopes , dreams, ambitions, future were mortgaged for a cup of garri, i would have expected that you respect my opinion and my right to air it regardless of your stupidness. seeing as you and that tout of a governor are related, i understand your pain. a relief would be that you go hang yourself, fool.

seriously, we celebrate trash in this country. nobody should come here and start with tribal ish, cos am yoruba and i know what am saying. first, you might not have had it as good as this before,but he is being paid to work for his people. so much expectations on him,but the truth is he is guilty of non-performance same as all the block heads called governors spread over the country, the president not excluded.
my point, leave semtiments and face reality, all these leaders are thieves and dont have our best interest at heart. am inclined to want to believe what the op has posted, because all such rumours have been found out to be true

Kayi: I like your optimism.Nigeria needs people like you and not tribal bigots that are overwhelming the populace

thanks bro, actually an article by simon kolawole. but he portrays my sentiments aptly.

lovely article by an unbiased, professional fellow.


Nigeria Is Changing But We Know Not
Simon Kolawole Live!: By Simon Kolawole,
Email: simon.kolawole@thisdaylive.com
Growing up, I was moulded by certain
prejudices. I was conditioned to view different
parts of Nigeria in stereotypical ways.
However, a time came in my life when I began
to question these inherited sentiments.
I desired a mind of my own, to judge things
empirically and come to conclusions by
myself. I intensified my research into the
history of what we now know as Nigeria, from
pre-1914 amalgamation to the present day. I
want to gladly announce today that contrary
to the received wisdoms, prejudices, biases
and stereotypes, Nigeria has changed
significantly over the decades.
This is not exactly the Nigeria of 1914 or
1960 or 1999. Of course, some things are still
the same, or even worse - especially in our
mindsets - but many things are changing.
Unfortunately, many Nigerians are still so
stuck in the past and are unable to
acknowledge this fact. I will give a few
examples shortly.
To start with, Southerners still look down on
Northerners as “uneducated”.
Maybe they had a point long ago. The colonial
masters, because of the success of indirect
rule, had shielded the North from
conventional education under the guise of
“protecting” the local culture.
Hence, as at I960, there were only a few
university graduates from the North. Today,
many Southerners still don’t know that the
story has changed. You can’t count the
number of Northern graduates! They even
have their fair share of unemployed
graduates! You cannot count the PhD holders,
professors, medical doctors, engineers or
accountants from the North.
They have produced several accomplished and
globally respected intellectuals. Yet, when
some Southerners hear that an Ahmed has
been appointed into a top position, all they
can think of is “quota system” or “federal
character”.
They are stuck in the past.
In the meantime, many Northerners are still
stuck with this “one North” fiction and the
empty bragging about “we have the numbers”!
Aboki, you ain’t got no numbers! Sir Ahmadu
Bello might have had a fairly monolithic
North under his arms at Independence, but
that was then. Things have changed forever. I
did warn the “Northern consensus candidate”
movement in 2011 that the concept of one
North was delusional.
There are now 19 states in the North with
various dynamics – local rivalries, religion,
strong minority solidarity and a growing
political sophistication. The world has
changed! And as for those Northerners who
claim they are “born to rule”, it has become
glaring today that they were not born to rule.
It was circumstances that conspired with the
situation to tilt power in favour of the North
for decades. Northern monopoly of power is
history.
On another note, the Yoruba still talk
romantically about Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s
free education policy of the 1950s which no
doubt stood the Yoruba in good stead in our
nationhood. But they may need to know that
the rest of the country did not go to sleep.
Every state now has free education, with free
school uniforms and free meals to boot. Most
are giving bursaries and foreign scholarships.
And there is yet no evidence to suggest that
the quality of instruction and classroom
infrastructure in Yorubaland is superior to
what obtains in other parts of Nigeria.
But I still meet many Yoruba nationalists who
continue to glory and gloat over “our
advantage in education”. Ogbeni, the rest of
Nigeria is catching up with you while you are
still glamorising Awolowo’s exploits of nearly
60 years ago! You’d better wake up to the new
realities.
Lest I forget, my Igbo friends still talk
agitatedly about the rest of Nigeria hating
them. Nna, you mean 249 other ethnic groups
and over 100 million Nigerians met and took a
decision to hate you? Only you? Just like that?
Since the civil war ended, Nigerians of all
origins have been eating isi-ewu, dancing to
the music of Oliver de Coque and Onyeka
Onwenu, going gaga over P Square, idolising
Genevieve Nnaji and Kanayo O. Kanayo,
celebrating Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda
Adichie, marrying you and getting married by
you, and still they hate you? Despite the
important political positions your sons and
daughters have occupied at federal level since
the end of the war, the narrative remains that
the rest of Nigerians hate you.
I know we need a president of Igbo origin to
complete the equation, and I believe it will
happen someday - but, nwa nnem, it is called
rivalry not hatred!
What’s more, our Niger Delta brothers are
still clamouring for resource control as if we
were in 1998.
What Delta State alone receives in federal
allocation is more than all the five South-east
states put together! Since 1999, the oil-
producing states have been receiving 13 per
cent derivation; they have the Niger Delta
Development Commission (NDDC) which has
produced many billionaires with choice
property home and abroad; they have the
Ministry of Niger Delta, which I honestly don’t
know what it is all about; they have the
Amnesty Programme, which is also producing
its own club of billionaires; and now the oil-
producing communities could start taking 10
per cent of the profit of oil companies
operating in their areas.
To crown it all, they have produced a
president in Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. Bros,
wetin una want again?
To be sure, I say not that there are no socio-
political tensions in Nigeria. The frequent
riots and killings are a grim reminder of this.
I deny not that there is mutual suspicion
across the “tribes and tongues”, but these
things are so often highlighted that you would
be forced to conclude that we have not made
any progress at all since 1914.
I know for sure that Nigeria is more
integrated today than it was in 1914 or 1960
or even 1999. My evidence: the number of
inter-cultural marriages; the number of
Southerners who willingly go to live and do
business up North; the number of
Northerners making their living in the South;
the number of Igbo eating amala and Yoruba
eating suya.
Nobody can tell me these numbers were
higher in 1914 or 1960 than in 2013.
We are obviously integrating more and more,
despite the best efforts of agents of division
and hate in the land. Nigeria is changing but
we know not. What we have been carrying
around for decades are inherited prejudices.
We hear our parents, teachers, elders or
activists say negative things about other
people. We hardly question or analyse these
things. We just repeat the stereotypes and
they become realities in our minds.
That is how negative mindsets and prejudices
are passed on from generation to generation.
I hereby solemnly promise that I will not pass
these prejudices and biases to my own
children. I want them to research, observe,
analyse and judge things by themselves. So
help me God.
Refining the Facts
Did you notice I said General Yakubu Gowon
built the first refinery in Nigeria in 1965 in
my article last week? The question to ask is:
Gowon became head of state only in 1966, so
did he build the refinery in advance? No, it
was an error.
The refinery was built by Shell BP and
acquired by NNPC in 1983. My attention has
also been drawn to the fact that I said our
total refinery capacity is 410,000 barrels per
day.
Well, I took the figures from the individual
websites of the refineries and did the math.
On the NNPC website, however, the figure is
445,000. Can you see my predicament?


www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nigeria-is-changing-but-we-know-not/160191/

Ymodulus: @Wesley



You see till today i still believe Nnamdi Azikwe was aware as to the fact that the Army would take over. This is still one of my hatred for azikwe. He was never a hero, has never been and wud neva eva be.

However to your question Lt. Victor was betrayed by IRONSI. Thats my take.

And yes Victor was an Unsunged Hero.


Please you might need to read the book called "WHY WE STRUCK ".

by wale ademoyega!!! read it in my childhood over fifty times. loved it

blackrevolution sounding like musiwa. distorted but yet valid information, not that i think all musiwa's post are valid. nigerians are so gullible, so trying to let them see the light will be nigh mission impossible

nice one, though i have certain reservations.

mayo47: Lool I laugh in Spanish, I referred to 9ija as in " a huge mess" wasn't directed to any individual and u attacking me so uncalled for uno. Illiterates like u excite my disgust and u make mention of fake story. How do u know its a fake story? it was reported on daily mirror and thisday newspaper. What do UK intend to gain framing up a story. They don't have time for such nonsense.

you should have kept quiet,instead of talking, cos you just affirmed the potency of his thesis

very stupid report and preposterous, also quite annoying. to understand why ASUU is on strike, one needs to read the comments of some people in this thread. i swear,your power of reasoning is either too low or non existent.
first,i believe a warrant or whatever interpol issued on her was on the aftermath of the attack,despite her "past" crimes,so why would she have been arrested?
second,they said she was prob dressed in the traditional islamic way a woman is supposed to be dressed,which means you would not even know if the woman walking beside you was white or black. so how did they know she was even in nigeria.
third, what offence did she commit,that warranted her having to bribe the police
yes,the nigerian police are corrupt, but even a dunce should see a spinned tale, but trust certain nigerians who all they want to see or hear is bad things about their country,mumu people