₦airaland Forum

bashr8: the same hawolowo instigate operation wettie where yorubas where killing each other or have you forgotten.

Another tale by moonlight. Awolowo was in prison during 'Operation Wetie' you fool. But hey don't let that fact distract you from your blissful ignorance.

So you know, it was the Eastern government of Michael Okpara that was behind 'Operation Wetie':

"The assassination attempt on Professor Biobaku was in line with the operation wetie" mayhem going on all
over Western Nigeria in which human beings were being doused with petrol and set ablaze. Those dastardly acts were being perpetrated by Yorubas, but the perpetrators, their organizers and co-ordinators were being funded by the government of Eastern Nigeria under Dr. Michael Okpara, according to intelligence reports available to the Western Nigerian government. "

http://www.dawodu.com/agbe1.htm

kingoflag: Why should your commercial vehicle be registered in another State, is not involved in inter-state transportation, but is leeching off of Lagos?

If the point of the law is to register businesses/individuals that operate commercial vehicles in Lagos State and guarantee that they pay tax, they could still do that without forcing people to change their plate numbers.

Let GEJ and his ilks feed themselves full on cassava bread if they want. Cassava has nothing but starch. Too much carbohydrates leads to diabetes. This disease has skyrocketed in Nigeria in recent years. I will beg Nigerians to reduce their starch intake as much as possible. Add more vegetable and fruits. Eat cassava leaves if you have to eat cassava at all.

By the way is Jonathan looking suspect more and more? Didn't he also recently tried to limit the number children Nigerians can have?

[img]http://3.bp..com/-jwqyH4yOS04/T7-SlsZ6XzI/AAAAAAAAAes/ZtLbY46hVf0/s1600/GEJ-cassava+bread.jpg[/img]

Meanwhile GEJ is still living in blissful ignorance.

Next time Gates step on the Nigerian soil, he should be stone the hell back.

This story makes no sense of course as always with Nigerian news report. The bank must have leased the dedicated line/bandwidth from a telecom company who must have been licensed by NCC. If the bank decide to also use the Internet on their leased bandwidth, what concern NCC?

Dede1: If you quit posting craps from Nowa Omoigui and pay more attention to deductive reasoning than not, you could save us all the headache of reading junks. When did a mere Lt Col and Army Chief of Staff have the authority to sign an instrument of pardon for convicted felons in Nigeria?

When he had become the President.

Many Nigerians still naively believed that the cause of the Nigerian civil war was the "massacre" of some people in the North or wherever.

Hint: Oil was discovered in 1956 in Nigeria.

chosen04: . . . .And what am I supposed to read? The rise and fall of the Hitler niGERian version who specialised in women and kids killings?

After reading your usual spew I can now understand why Hitler and Osama has got proteges . . . .

Ignorance is a bliss.

Spirit of Okija: Point of correction..

The men who died in that war volunteered..

The Men, women and children that died as a result of Awolowos starvation were the real victims

Again how about the idiot warlord who stalemated a war he had effectively lost and then watched as children die of starvation? Ojukwu tried to use propaganda to win the war but it blew up on his face. Blame him and his white cohort Fredrick Forsyth. Not Awolowo.

Spirit of Okija: He didnt beg for his life and then turn around to backstab the person who speared his life..

No he didn't. He merely ran away like chicken when his whole pet project fell apart and after having caused unnecessary death.

Spirit of Okija: Shut up your filthy mouth there... Ojukwu may have been an arse but he was by miles better than Awolowo.. If only Ironsi had executed him, the Igbos might have won that war.

Name one area Ojukwu "was by miles better than Awolowo". You have all day.

High_Chief: Honestly, you always try to cover the truth. We all know Ojukwu released him and Ojukwu said that himself. How do you think that soldiers at Calabar(Biafran state) would be taking orders from Gowon. Ojukwu was the commander-in-chief in Biafra and released Awo, who later turned his back on Ojukwu and betrayed him.

"Chief Awolowo and other political prisoners were released from prison on August 2, l966, on the order of the Head of the Federal Military Government, Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon."

STOP THE TALES BY MOONLIGHT.

On August 2, 1966 Biafra was not in existence as a state yet. It was declared on May 30, 1967.

pistol: So awolowo was begging an igbo man 4 his life.

He was later released only for him to accept the minister of finance position given to him by the hausas that he is trying to paint black here.

And used that position to starve 2 million biafrans to death..

Whom is he trying to fool here.?

D sage indeed

How about the idiot warlord who initiated a civil war he couldn't win? Or that tried to create a nation he couldn't feed? Do you blame him at all?

Igbos are accusing Yorubas of not voting for Jonathan. Now Buhari is saying Tinubu gave SW votes to Jonathan.  

Yorubas, the smooth operators of Nigerian politics.  

Poor performance by Buhari. Incoherent. Ignorant of the issues. Horrible command of English

Disappointing performance by Ribadu. Inarticulate and unable to gather his thought into a coherent whole.

Shekarau was coherent without really saying much. A real politician. Also good command of English.

Kalokalo is the only one making sense on this thread but as usual Nigerians and sense don't go together unfortunately. Pity.

Anyway if other Nigerian moneybags were like Dangote and built real manufacturing industries that were making real products instead of surrounding themselves with praise singing dependencies then Nigerian youths wouldn't be dying in the Sahara desert or in Libya looking for green pasture.

why didn't they just come home jejeje? Its obvious we can't face the Ghanians with this uninspiring team. Now we have to go through another humiliating defeat from the more prepared Ghanians.

If its boring then make it exciting or are you not a Nigerian?

Nigerians arguing over non-issue as usual.

Polls: Fashola, Fayemi, Ajimobi, Daniel lead 15/4/2007



By Our Reporters
Action Congress (AC) standard-bearers in Lagos and Ekiti states, Mr Babatunde Fashola and Dr Kayode Fayemi and their All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) counterpart in Oyo, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, shot into an early lead yesterday as results of the governorship election began trickling in.

Fashola comfortably led the polls in most parts of Lagos where results had been announced last night, while Fayemi was ahead in 12 of the 16 local government areas of Ekiti State.

In Oyo, Ajimobi led in Ibadan and Ibarapa, while his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) opponent, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala was ahead in Ogbomoso.

The duo were in a neck-to-neck race in Oyo town. Results were yet to come in from Oke-Ogun at press time last night.

However, from all indications, Ajimobi is likely to win in Oke-Ogun because of the Governor Rashidi Ladoja factor. Ladoja is backing Ajimobi whom he directed all his supporters to vote for before the election.

Ajimobi’s performance in Ibadan-Ibarapa can be attributed to the Ibadan elders’ factor as well as his being a son of the soil. The elders had before the polls expressed dissatisfaction with President Olusegun Obasanjo’s handling of the Oyo State crisis and chided him or treating Chief Lamidi Adedibu with kid gloves.

In Lagos, Fashola was followed by the Democratic

Peoples Alliance (DPA) candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, who against all odds was ahead of his PDP (PDP) counterpart, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro.

At Alimoso, Ejigbo, Kosofe, Ikeja, Lagos Mainland, Lagos Island, Ojo, Eti-Osa, Agege, Apapa, Epe, Somolu and Surulere local governments, where results in some wards had been declared, Fashola was in the lead.

Last night, political pundits observed that if the trend continues, Fashola looked good to succeed his boss, Governor Bola Tinubu.

Yesterday, voters turned out in large numbers to vote in the governorship and Houses of Assembly polls.

The exercise was peaceful in many parts of the state, while there were reports of violence and malpractices in other places.

At Jakande Estate, Isolo, in Ejigbo Local Government Area, the election started behind schedule due to the late arrival of officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

At Ojo where there was an impressive turn-out, INEC officials had a hectic time controlling the voters. At Olugbemi Estate, Olojo Drive, Idi-Orogbo, Alaba-Rago, Okoko, Ijanikin, Igbo-Elerin and Iba township, the voters waited patiently, even when it started raining around 3p.m., to cast their votes.

In Ekiti, there was no election in Igbimo-Ekiti, while the house of a former deputy speaker in the House of Assembly, Mr. Taiye Olatunbosun, was reportedly burnt.

The incident, it was learnt, followed plans to rig the election in the area.

One person each was reportedly killed in Oye-Ekiti and Ikere-Ekiti, while a traditional ruler was fingered for arranging thugs to vote at Are-Ekiti.

In Ogun State Governor Daniel was said to be leading in most of the local goverments were results having been counted.

http://www.thenationonlineng.com/dynamicpage.asp?id=16289

I said it in another thread that as long as westerners are ignorant about Africa, they will continue to fall victim to scam.

Really!!! Amazing.

The News have some exit poll for Lagos and have Fashola leading by wide margin.

http://www.thenewsng.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2574

LAGOS, Nigeria - Voters went to the polls Saturday in Nigeria to choose their state officers in the first of a pair of elections meant to solidify civilian rule in Africa's most-populous nation.


Many polling centers opened late around the country and a year of stepped-up violence continued in the southern oil region, which is desparately poor despite pumping all the crude in Africa's biggest oil producer.

In the main city of Lagos, voters entered election centers after an hour's wait, marked their ballots and deposited them in transparent containers for tallying.

Non-official road traffic was banned on Saturday and hoardes of young men spilled into empty streets to play soccer, using bricks and tires as goalposts.

Increased ranks of security forces were on patrol, many carrying brand-new Kalashnikov assault rifles.

Nigeria's 61 million voters will select their state lawmakers and governors Saturday and their national legislators and president a week later.

Since its independence from Britain in 1960, Nigeria has never seen power handed from one elected leader to another.

On Friday, President Olusegun Obasanjo issued a stern warning to any election-day troublemakers, saying security forces would act to forestall any violence.

"Let me assure all Nigerians that the federal government will leave no stone unturned in vigorously checking and sanctioning any acts of violence and thuggery, and other excesses calculated to disturb the peace or disrupt the elections," he said in a statement. Earlier this week, Obasanjo put security forces on high alert.

Under Nigeria's federal system, leaders in the 36 states wield great powers and control enormous budgets in Africa's biggest oil producer; the seats are hotly contested.

The campaign period in the country of 140 million has seen isolated bouts of violence that have left some 70 people dead, human rights groups say.

In the southern oil region, a year of increased strife continued Saturday. Gunmen attacked a police station in the main city of Port Harcourt, killing seven police and razing the building, police said. A notorious gang leader claimed credit.

Weeks of campaigning have been bitter. Politicians have traded accusations of corruption and shady dealings — most notably between Obasanjo's ruling party and top opposition figure Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who has fallen out with his boss and been banned from the race by the electoral commission.

Abubakar is contesting the ruling in court and the race has grown increasingly bitter.

"It is a matter of great regret that some supposedly highly placed individuals have been reported to be fanning the embers of discord, hatred, violence, and destruction," said Obasanjo, without elaborating or naming individuals.

Nigeria's voters will head to 120,000 election centers nationwide, with dozens of international observers and hundreds of Nigerian monitors watching the vote. Results are expected within days.

Obasanjo's 1999 election ended nearly 15 years of military rule. His 2003 re-election was marred by violence and accusations of widespread rigging. All previous elections were scuttled by military coups or annulments.

And why is the ballot paper not enclose in some envelop?

Another reason why this type of reporting will never make 419 go away is this pervasive western ignorance concerning the African situation. For example what does $1 per day have to do with the 419 crime? And how the hell did they come up with that figure?

Good. Ladoja is a buffoon anyway. He is the cause of the mess we have in Oyo State today. Adedibu was adequately marginalized back in 1999 and if not for Ladoja who re-institutionalized him on the people of Oyo State as godfather we wouldn't have this mess.

Now at this late hour, with the polls less than 20 days away what possible "rehabilitation and supply of satellite communication network for the Nigeria Police" can be carry out? Na garri? Methink this eleventh hour project smell of corruption just like that N200 million PTDF liaison contract with the Afe Babalola chamber on IT.



FEC okays N500m satellite gadgets for police ahead polls
From Madu Onuorah of Guardian in Abuja

A TOTAL of N500 million was yesterday approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) for the rehabilitation and supply of satellite communication network for the Nigeria Police ahead of the April polls.
The satellite systems will cover all the 36 states of the federation and the central Louis Edet Command Headquarters of the Nigeria Police.

Nweke, who spoke on the rehabilitation and supply of the Police communication satellite, said: "Council approved the rehabilitation, refurbishment, supply, testing and commissioning of Police satellite communication network VSAT system of the 36 states and Command Headquarters in Abuja. For the Police to function effectively, they must have very good communication facilities and it was approved at the sum of N500 million."

This incident happened since Monday and we are just hearing about it now?

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LAGOS (AFP) - More than 70 people burned to death in northern Nigeria when a tanker lorry caught fire as they were stealing fuel from it, police said Wednesday.

At least 100 other victims are being treated for burns, another official said.
The accident happened on Monday evening in Kaduna state, Kaduna's police spokesman Saad Yahaya said before adding that "more than 70 people have been confirmed dead."
"One hundred and one survivors, mostly youths, are being treated , for varying degrees of burns," Aliyu Saleh Raminkura, the executive secretary of the state's emergency management agency told AFP.
"The tanker turned over, the villagers came to scoop fuel and then the tanker caught fire", he explained.
Yahaya said the tanker overturned while trying to park in the village of Katugal, some 150 kilometres (90 miles) south of the state capital Kaduna.
It was not immediately clear if the impact of the accident caused fuel to leak from the tanker or whether the vehicle was vandalized.
Events perceived as giving a negative image of the country are not reported on by state media in Nigeria. This explains why news of the accident took so long to become public.
Road accidents with large casualty figures are common in Nigeria where vehicles are often poorly maintained, overloaded and driven in a reckless fashion.
In November of last year a driver lost control of his lorry outside Kaduna during gubernatorial primaries and crashed into a crowd, crushing scores of people to death.
Almost equally common are fires where people perish whilst helping themselves to fuel, be it from oil company installations or trucks.
Nigeria's tens of millions who live in poverty rarely pass up on opportunities to gather free fuel, which can always be sold in jerrycans to motorists who run out, from pipelines or vehicles that have either been damaged or vandalized.
Vandalism of pipelines and related installations is extremely common, with an official report published last July registering 2,258 such acts in the previous five years.
For 2005 alone, an estimated 650,000 tonnes of crude was lost through such incidents, according to the same report.
Last December a fire at a vandalised pipeline in Lagos killed some 260 people who were scooping fuel from it in the hope of making a few dollars.
Across the country in the past 10 years, thousands of people have died while stealing oil.
In the worst such incident, in Jeese village in the southern Delta State in 1998, more than 1,000 suspected fuel thieves were roasted alive after an explosion.
The Nigerian authorities habitually show little sympathy for those who die in such explosions, condemning them as greedy.
Nigeria is Africa's biggest crude oil producer but nevertheless relies on imports for its refined product requirements as its own refineries are not in working order.[/b]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070328/wl_africa_afp/nigeriaoilaccident
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=303252&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/
http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=362659&sid=WOR