₦airaland Forum

Don Brutus: The kind of criticism we get in this country on the first family is mostly borne out of hate , first which convention in the world with that kind of crowd wont cause traffic? Or wld it be better women convention shld neva hold in nigeria? Wld her village be better for the convention to save abuja the traffic lockdown? Even if she did hold the said convention in her village , will the tongue lashing not still come? What exactly do people , south western nigeria hold against this man and his wife? Lastly is it a game of hate or concern for well being of the nation?

The moment Nigerians learnt not to mince words, things will change for good. The criticisms of Nigeria’s first family are mostly borne out of tribal bias. The two airheads mentioned on the thread are typical examples. I guess they have not stepped out of their backwater settlements to realize that convention of such height brings traffic to a grind.

In capital cities such as Washington, DC with better access roads than Abuja, such convention could lead to declaration of liberal leaves by the governments, people are encourage to work from home and even warned to stay away from the city.

Orlando Owoh: Be reasonable for once.

For the sake of reasonability, please name one additional Yoruba who spent almost 3 years in jail because of Biafran issue.

arsenal1: Did PPA declared T A Orji seat vacant when he defected to PDP? Enlighten me please

Are you insinuating Nigerians should turn into “what monkeys see, monkeys do” attitude? The issue rests on what the constitution stipulated about party sponsorship and elective offices in Nigeria.

Abagworo: Stop bothering yourself responding the haters. At least Rochas has been keeping it down low since this year and they go about calling him a noise maker. Those of us that do visit Imo State once in a while know the level of miracle that has happened in the State.

Thanks goodness you visit Imo State once in a while hence your skewed view of the events in the state. Please make time to listen to people who made Imo State their place of abode permanently.

@OP

I could be ignorant of the whole deal you posited, may I ask if this invention is merely on paper.

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Yungwizzzy: I will never comment

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You are simply naive! Do you think in your wildest dream that Obi will stand and watch Soludo pick the APGA ticket? He knew all along that Soludo is even a bigger threat than Ngige. This is what Obi did -

1 - Over blew the deportation scandal to "kill" Ngige's party in anambra. 70% succeeded

2 - Convince Soludo to join APGA so as to make it easy defeating him during party primaries or denying him ticket. 100% succeeded

3 - Play the politics of rotation to confuse the masses, by going around preaching that anambra north deserves it. 80% successful.


I made two conclusions the moment I read about Soludo leaving PDP. It is either he was too naive and foolish or his handlers are stupìd. In Nigeria, most governors would like their SSG succeeding them, cos that is the only time they are assured their secrets won't go public.

Soludo is about to die politically, cos he performed the plebeian harakiri.[/quote]Honestly, I did not know you have few gray matters left in your psychotic skull.

aasog1: The same man was shred to pieces by pro-GEJ activists, who called him mad, despite he spent 2 years in prison for their Biafra. The same Shoyinka dared the cabals when GEJ was "Totally alone", and not one of his ally including Dame spoke a word. I think Yorubas have done enough for other tribes in this country. Its time that energy is poured on ourselves alone. Anyways, no sane Yoruba man would fight for any more tribe with the actions and anti-Fashola and anti-Yoruba music that has been sung since Gej became the president. The prof has finally quieten down. We need him to do more for his people rather than some bunch of hapless low-memory ingrates.

You should be ashamed of yourself, multitude of forbearers and ilk that only one Yoruba was reasonable enough to understand the plight of Biafrans. Yet you are here playing ever chest beating and arrogating of err of personality peculiarly known about Yoruba people. If the nonchalance exhibited by the Yoruba people was not a crass self-indictment, what else could be?

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When Dede1 is caught out, he starts to play with words. He is a master of obfuscation.

You are such a joke. There is difference connotation between two-star senior military officer and two-star general.

@OP

First Lawyer from Western Nigeria
The first lawyer produced by Western Nigeria was Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams who was called to the English Bar in 1879. He was born on July 14, 1855, in Sierra Leone to the family of Alex Charles Williams and Nancy Johnson Williams. He was believed to have come from Ijesha land.
Sapara Williams once said, “The legal practitioner lives from the direction of his people and the advancement of the cause of his country.”

First Medical Doctor from Western Nigeria
He was Dr Nathaniel King who graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1875. He was born on July 14, 1847, in Hastings, Sierra Leone, to the family of Reverend Thomas King who worked with Bishop Ajayi Crowder to translate some Cathecism books and some portion of the English Bible into Nigerian languages.
Dr King came back to Lagos in 1878 and resumed work at Church Missionary Society (CMS) where he was paid 50 pounds per annum until in January 1882 when his annual salary got an upward review to the tune of 75 pounds. He died on June 12, 1884. In his medical practice, he proved that African medical practitioners could be as competent, diligent, passionate and respected as his European counterparts.


First Nigerian scientist to manufacture a car (from Western Nigeria)
Professor Ayodele Awojobi, while serving as a lecturer at the University of Lagos, successfully converted his own family car, an Opel Record, from right hand drive to left drive. He tinkered further with motor engines when he acquired an army-type jeep and proceeded to producing a second steering wheel machinery adjoining to the pre-existing engine at the rear end so that the vehicle was able to move in both forward and backward directions with all four pre-existing gears. This gave birth to the hybrid vehicle which he christened Antonov1.
Awojobi is the first Nigerian and the first African to be awarded a Doctor of Science (D.Sc) in Mechanical Engineering at the then Imperial College of Science and Technology, now known as Imperial College of London, a degree exceptionally and rarely awarded to a scholar under the age of 40.

Please try something else on the above listed individuals. The lawyer and physician had nothing to do with Nigeria excerpt being invited to Lagos by the colonialists.

[quote author=Abiyamọ]Two-star marshal? An officer of two-star rank is a senior commander in many of the armed services holding a rank described by the NATO code of OF-7. The term is also used by some armed forces which are not NATO members. Typically, two-star officers hold the rank of rear admiral, counter admiral, major general, or in the case of those air forces with a separate rank structure, air vice-marshal. Read more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-star_rank and please stop DERIDING yourself. Oh, I forgot your name is DerideGull.[/quote]I guess you are catching the joke. Yes, two-star marshal and two-star admiral represent air vice marshal and rear admiral respectively. There are places where one-star admiral does not actually represent rear admiral junior grade but commodore. Again, you must be prudent when you put stuffs in the net. Now you seem to realize that military is very regimental.

dr dams: Wots ur beef?
Naija equals a Rear Admiral 2 a major General..

...I 1ce asked u a quest cos u said y shud d caption read Armed Forces wen is Navy..
Pitiable.. Der is a diff btw d Armed Forces and The Army..

... I asked if dat same word "caption" or "headline" means anyting to u?

No mata aw rational or mayb irrational u may sound, ur intial complaint was biase - ethnically, so since den, I refuse to comprehend wateva point u present..

Calling a fellow redundant, I call u Recalcitrant in return..

May I ask recalcitrant airhead such as you who is talking about equivalency?

Crassus: my questions for you:

1, regarding he picture of the Naval officer above . is she a real admiral ? Yes or No?
2, The Op said the current female General is the picture of the Naval officer was he right or not?

My initial argument with u was letting u know that a real admiral is equivalent to a 2 star general u said the same thing in the bolded but for some reasons which i dont know u keep contradicting yourself.
I didn't know u have a reputation of being a bitter sod on the forum i wouldnt have replied your initial post

I hate to argue with practical dunces such as you. Again, a two star general has an air force counterpart known as two-star marshal, olodo. Forum is a place to learn good and practical stuffs not a place designated for numbskulls such as you who are more concerned with arrogation of idiocy to themselves.

dayokanu: See how Dendemoron has brought his senility to public glare

Shut up your putrid mouth. Just queue up and learn one or two things, olodo.

Crassus: Nigeria uses UK style of military ranking. now check the rear admiral of the royal navy and see if it doesnt equal to a 2 star general.

you are very ignorant. I am done talking myself

http://www.nigerianprofessional.com/militaryranks.html

You remain a redundant rapscallion. Military has a regimental culture and dolts such as you are not tolerated in such circle. Well grounded human beings rarely interact with people such as you who dwell in equivalency. As your listed source indicated, two-star admiral is a Real Admiral and its counterpart in the army is two-star general or Major General. Olodo.

For your information, Nigeria has slightly deviated from UK style of military ranking especially in parlance, Olodo.

Crassus: rear admirals are the same as 2 star generals mr man

and i said the post was about the women who made generals so your tales by moonlight about the women with the ranks of major was very irrelevant. that was my point. you are very dull

You are just a redundant rapscallion. In certain countries of world, rear admirals are not resolutely a two-star. I have done talking to pitiable stones. It is unfortunate that a country uses one-star or two-star designation for certain ranks then every basement dingbat jumps onto the bandwagon.

^^^^ There are silly and unfounded postulations certain cretins tended to spread on this forum. However when a person tries to highlight such craps, the usual suspects in crime with the original poster will haul insults at the person.

kayfx2: Now its clear this dude is high on gbagada weed...let it rest people!

I am not in the business of educating bitter ignoramuses.

kq: Dude you do not know what you are talking about. there is such a thing as a two star General even in the Navy. This is because in there is a comparison of ranks in all he three Armed Forcesn with Army ranks more often than not used as the base ranking system. That's why in such countries as the U.S. Army ranks are used all across the AirForce and Marines.
By the way in which literature have you ever heard the mention two star admiral? It is because of this comparison that makes it possible to decipher who is most senior between officers from the AirForce, Navy and Army and that is why an AirForce or Navy officer could be the Head of the military ( Chief of Defence Staff) also. The ranks in the Navy or Airforce have their equivalence in the Army also. For your information here is a comparison below

NAVY ARMY AIRFORCE
Admiral of the fleet Marshal/Field marshal Marshal of the Nigerian Air Force
Admiral General Air Chief Marshal
Vice Admiral Lieutenant General Air Marshal
Rear Admiral Major General Air Vice Marshal
Commodore Brigadier Air commodore
Captain Colonel Group captain
Commander Lieutenant colonel Wing commander
Lieutenant
commander Major /commandant Squadron leader
Lieutenant Captain Flight lieutenant
Sub-lieutenant Lieutenant Flying officer
Ensign 2nd lieutenant Pilot officer
Midshipman Officer cadet Officer cadet

Which USA are you talking about? And what military parlance that ordinarily refers or addresses an admiral as a general? Nigerians are serious cases indeed. Is the above ranking system that of Nigeria or USA?

Normal course of promotion in the military is not usually an overblown achievement as the original poster would want us to believe.

Katsumoto: So your point is that she should have started with the first female Corporal, then Sergeant, then Lieutenant, followed by Captain, major, Lt. Colonel, Brigadier before finally arriving at General. SMDH

You knew what she was/is trying to do because you are present in her mind. So when she opened a thread about Abdusalam's wife, it was because Abdusalam's wife is from the same ethnic group as the OP and Gen Ronke Kale?

Do you try to re-read your comments before posting? If there is any disappointment here, it is in your thoughts and writing.

I wrote my response based on what he/she had written and posted. The fact remains that Mrs. ADERONKE KALE may not be the first Nigerian female doctor who is a commissioned officer in Nigerian armed forces.

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