₦airaland Forum

EmperorCaesar:
I swear, U guys as a group are suffering from many things and Inferiority complex is thop of that list

Just a reminder that you systematically exempted yourself from the ethnic bigots in the post below:

EmperorCaesar:
Even those ethnic fighters on nairaland would do anything in their powers to save their oppositions from death

A leopard never hides it's spots 😎

Yes, I would.

Where is the moral right to challenge the government for not being up and doing if you are not meeting up with your obligations.

Starting when? Before sharing the update with fellow travellers, I checked out the fares minutes ago and it's 27k to 38k

As comparison, someone who left for Onitsha three nights ago boarded 16,500 on Night bus from Lagos.

https://gigm.com/
https://www.ysgtransport.ng/

Can 'God Is Good' (GIG) Motors or 'Young Shall Grow' (YSG) Motors, a.k.a. 'The Young' confirm that they have reached an agreement with FG on this? Their prices is speaking the same language 😏

See cobwebs everywhere

How do we catch up on all that we have missed now?

It's great to be back.

Can Seun shed more light on the manner of abuse that made it to be yanked off? If it's something from the users' end or just a technical term.

That way, we can collectively do our bit in making sure it doesn't happen again. 😑

Phew! What a relief

I just subconsciously refreshed the website for the sixth time this morning, and boom

Lord have mercy. Allowing kids to roam free is always a No! No! Teach your kids to stay indoors. Teach your kids to be security conscious at all times!!

Here in Lagos where we reside, the same hands I was raised with is the same hands I'm raising my kids with. I do not allow my kids to leave the house at all, except when on an errand, which they are always strictly timed. All these unnecessary mingling is not for me and my family. Stay put and learn the family values before you become a teenager.

Sometimes I get moved when they longingly look outside the windows where other kids are playing; Sadly but thankfully, there are incidents like this that serve as a reminder that even our bests are not even enough. I hope their kids are found hale and hearty 🥲

Meanwhile, there was a caught.

Guess who is there to take lessons😁😁

Goodnewsforlife:
u igbos are known liars n u never disappoint

This is a thread link about d debt obi left in anambra

http://www.akelicious.com/2017/10/breakingpeter-obi-left-me-with-n127bn.html?m=1

I don't understand. When you said 'veritable' link in your post below 👇

Goodnewsforlife:
whereas I have veritable link of where Obiano made it clear he left d state in debt

Did you mean the akelicious link you posted above? 😒

Not clicking that sh*t bruv. I'll manage Punch or Vanguard or the likes where I can read or watch for myself, mind you, a quote from Obiano himself like you claimed, not something someone said on his behalf, which gives him deniability.

I believe such truth must be present on the 'veritable' mainstream media, No?

SpatialKing:
That's the spirit

Yes Boss. We all need one another; not all these yeye transactional politics dividing us from our common goal.

Goodnewsforlife:
please any veritable link to d money he left, whereas I have veritable link of where Obiano made it clear he left d state in debt

Post d link of how he left money or keep quiet for life

It’s a challenge

Oh, that's easy. We should have that on Nairaland somewhere; a document he signed himself; and other reports. I'll modify once I get it ASAP.
Modified: https://www.nairaland.com/7175783/peter-obis-hand-over-note

What's more, the then Chairman of Diamond Bank, now Governor of Abia State, confirmed in 2017 that Peter Obi saved $50m each with them and Access Bank, and $56m in Fidelity. Not to forget that each of these banks had their officials present during the handover. You are welcome to refute all of this.

I love the Obiano part and I look forward to it.

Oh, and you couldn't provide any governor you support who saved $1 for their state. Keep that in mind.

Goodnewsforlife:
was obi not part of d ruling class?

Yeah. The only part of the ruling class that left $150m saved for his state. I challenge you to bring forth any of those you promote here that saved $1 for their state; you can begin with Tinubu.

Your time starts now.

EmperorCaesar:
Humanity first before anything

Even those ethnic fighters on nairaland would do anything in their powers to save their oppositions from death

Nothing special about this

You aren't one of them? Or you didn't know the account you're posting with?

Anyways, it's a great thing Moyo had the Igbo boys around in Lagos where this happened.

Humanity over elections.

Listen in here: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1lPKqbjEdmYGb

Key Points

Peter Obi: Even if renovations have been planned since 2010, a government in power should be sensitive to the plights of their people when they are in power.

Peter Obi: Within one month when I resumed office, Nigerian Legal Council shut down the Faculty of Law in Anambra State University. I had to put aside the plan for the Governor's Lodge building and look into putting that Faculty in order, which is of a higher priority so that the law students will not be thrown out of school.

Peter Obi: The way we are going today doesn't reflect the bankrupt nature of the country; whether it is going to Dubai or building lodges here and there. We are borrowing for consumption, not investment. So the first thing to do was to apply brakes on consumption; cut aggressively, the cost of governance.

Peter Obi: For the young voters, don't get disillusioned. That is the plan of your oppressors. With time, we will dismantle this criminality. The money that is being borrowed today by the leaders in their 70s and 80s, will be repaid by you, young Nigerian, with some of them being bonds that are payable in 2040s. Many of these borrowers will not be alive then. For the sake of your children, your country and humanity, don't give up.

Peter Obi: I'm just a member of Labour Party, I'm not a member of the National Working Committee or Executives of Labour Party. Everything that happens in Labour Party is decided by the managers. However, a party does not stop an elected leader from executing their duties. If I decided to go to COP, Dubai with only 5 people, my party cannot say No. We should not mix those two. A lot of OBIdients were not members of Labour Party. I always advised the NWC to try and carve the best candidates in your primaries because I, Peter, cannot control it. The idea of democracy is to look at who is the best candidate and vote for the person.

Peter Obi: The Zero-Carbon idea of COP will be negotiated because we are yet to be developed. We cannot just go along with their ideas when we are yet to be developed. China weren't going along with them, but not that they have achieved development, they can now afford to look towards Zero-Carbon. For us, we have other critical problems like hunger to tackle first. So we will negotiate with them and let them see what we are trying to achieve.

Peter Obi: No Nigerian Governor, since my time, that has been able to save $1. There is no law that mandates Peter Obi to save. I have been accused of saving money and eating up the interest. Imagine if every Nigerian leader has been saving money for the country, and eating only the interest. The capital we will have now would have been very beneficial.

Peter Obi: Fidelity Bank is not tied to my name. It has about 500,000 shareholders. Also, Access Bank of Nigeria and Diamond Bank of Nigeria. I invested about 60 million dollars in bonds in each of the banks. Imagine if Anambra had that value today, which should be about 300 million dollars at the current value of over N1000 to a dollar

"The people with the old order are the ones promoting tribal bigotry and they are saying they'll crush this Peter Obi. Our country is divided by politicians who want it like that because of their selfish gains," -Peter Obi on Parallel Facts.

"When there was bomb blast in Kaduna that killed our innocent Muslim brethren, I went there, those shouting Muslim Muslim ticket did not go there." -Peter Obi on Parallel Facts.

The Senate President is an uncommon person and I don’t like doing things with uncommon people. I won the election not just in Lagos and Ebonyi, I won the elections in Nigeria. If not for Nigeria being an uncommon place we all know what happened. - Peter Obi replies Sen Akpabio.

Nobody serious goes around looking for Foreign investors. It is like Bee and Honey. Foreign investors only stay where there is rule of law; not a society governed by rascality - Peter Obi

"Quite frankly, let me thank the movement. Thank you for all you do. I want the movement to stay together. Don't see it as if you're doing all these for Peter Obi but for yourself. I assure you, I'll never let you down. You'll never find me wanting," - Peter Obi

Fellow Nigerians, are you aware that the Students from Akwa-Ibom (the Senate President's state) who were kidnapped on their way to NYSC camp are still in captivity yet the Senate President went to throw Lavish 61st Birthday in a 30,000 Stadium Capacity? What kind of a Leader does that?

US-based don recounts ordeal at hands of Nigerian immigration, police officers on Facebook, which made him cut short his visit and went back to Ghana

IGBO KWENU!!!!
Without the intervention of a crowd of young Igbo men who saved me from the claws of the Nigeria Police attached to the FESTAC Mile Two station, I would be a dead man today.
I arrived Lagos today.
I came in through Ghana, and decided to enter Nigeria by road so I could see the lagoon landscape, riding a Jeep that I hired to drive me down.
Everything went well in Ghana, Togo, Benin Republic, until I stepped into Nigeria.
Na dia trouble start oooooo!
The first immigration checkpoint that we encountered was at the Seme border, on the Nigeria side.
One of immigration officers took a look at me, and said, “Come down, oga.”
To cut a long story short, they robbed me of $500.
There were many of them, and they "invited" me--more like dragged me--to their shed.
They took my hand luggage, with all the money that I brought from the US.
Their excuse was that they wanted to search it to see if it contained contraband.
They asked for my Nigeria passport. I told them it had expired and I was in Nigeria to renew it.
They said it was an offense for me to enter the country with an expired passport.
I apologized. But they wanted none of that.
They said I had to “settle” them. They had my wallet containing the money I brought to spend in Nigeria.
They saw two twenty-dollar notes and said I needed to give them these notes, otherwise they would seize all the money in the wallet, and take me to their office to make a statement.
I had heard stories of visitors to the country ending up dead when the police invited them to their offices to clear some issues.
So I eagerly gave them the forty dollars.
They gave me back my things.
But when I counted my money later, $500 was missing.
Then the Jeep driver drove me to the FESTAC Mile Two motor park, where another driver I hired to take me to Ile Ife was waiting.
My two suitcases were on the floor at the Mile Two FESTAC car park, in public, right under the large gate to FESTAC.
I was narrating my ordeal in the hands of the immigration to my driver, when three gun totting police officer appeared.
They carried some deadly-looking AK 47.
They wanted to see the content of my bags.
As they searched the bags, they came upon the money I brought from the US.
I introduced myself to them as a professor at the University of Texas, Austin.
They asked for identifications. I gave them my driving license, the university issued ID card, my US passport and my Nigeria passport.
They took them from me.
By that time, about ten police officers had descended upon me.
Also listening were some Igbo guys hanging out at the motor park.
Before you could say “Ki lo de?” the police officers searched me thoroughly.
Then they started searching my bag.
They found that my suitcases contained my personal effects.
They were interested in a pair of shorts which they said looked like camouflage shorts.
They pulled out the shorts.
Then there was a sculpture that I made, which they said was juju,
They decided to seize my suitcases, hand luggage, ID cards and all of my money.
They said I had to follow them to the police station.
At this point, a sizable crowd of some fifty people had gathered.
One of them, with an obvious Igbo accent, said, “You can see he is a professor from abroad. He has given you several ID cards, including his passports. Wetin you dey find again?”
It was like a signal to the others, who began shouting, “You wan kill am? You people are thieves o! Highway robbers! It can never happen! Una don see money, una eyes don open…! Before you can take him, just kill all of us!”
They formed a tight buffer zone between the police officers and me.
Two of them jumped into the police vehicle and dragged out my bags from the vehicle. They accosted the one who held the wallet containing my ID card and my money, shouting, “You better give him back his wallet and money now, odawise wahala will burst.”
Another said, “We will not let you take him to the police station to kill him like you always kill international visitors.”
In a matter of moments, about a hundred Igbo boys emerged from thin air and surrounded us.
The police officers saw they were clearly outnumbered by these Igbo motor park boys.
They threatened to shoot.
These Igbo boys stood their ground, daring the police officers to kill them.
"Oya now," they said, "Sebi you get AK 47. Kill us now, and then you can take him. But you are not taking him if we are still alive."
Though some of the police officers appeared to cock their rifles, the Igbo guys only squeezed tighter around me.
The police officers slapped some of the Igbo guys near them, but their ring of protection around me did not break, it only got tighter, as the guys were yelling and daring the officers to kill them.
I was scared.
The police officers realized that the situation was clearly beyond what they envisaged.
They had imagined I was alone and nobody would rise tio my defense.
The police officer who held my wallet, passports and ID cards quickly handed them back to me, looking nervous.
The Igbo boys, chanting, carried my suitcases on their heads, sometimes lifting the boxes up above their heads like highly coveted trophies. The boys, seemingly closed in on the police officers, ready to attack them for my protection.
The police officers jumped inside their vehicles, and drove off to save face, their tails curled behind their brokos.
I recalled the traumatic moment I left the country in 1992, and swore “If you see me in this god-forsaken country again, cut off my neck.”
Obviously, the country has fallen much lower since then, and is now a danger zone in which men in uniforms of all descriptions—immigration, customs, police, vehicle inspection officers and others wearing uniforms difficult to identify or define—they have all taken over the country and made it difficult for citizens to enjoy, or even just subsist in their own country.

Moyo Okediji is an art historian, painter and artist whose works contains a number of icons and signifiers of the deep aspects of Yoruba culture. He is currently an academic staff of the University of Texas, Austin.

https://web.facebook.com/moyo.okediji/posts/pfbid0eGS1UUHbZbbFCeJHrBfzPrMBBH1X4mZu6HqscA7C9VeR4SWNX4SmBSE88H4p2Ujbl?_rdc=1&_rdr

When I saw you're a fellow school teacher, I was compassionate to your plea but I cannot relate to you returning 20k because it was short of 7k. 😑

It puts you in a really tough situation. Now you'll have to fight for all of it with nothing.

Imagine sowing weed and hoping to harvest corn. 😏

Obaofaba:
Where are you typing from?

Lagos, Oyo, Ilorin, Ogun or aba?

Lagos. That's how I know so much about the rot here.

Where are you typing from?

Caseless:
You look at the potential of both states to pay back, Lagos is in a better position. What's the IGR of Abia?

Isn't that the whole point? The state's debt rises higher than the IGR. Which begs the question, what does the IGR actually do? Are they just doctored numbers, which would more likely explain why the former is so. Only once had the state's debt actually dropped since 1999, which was under Ambode. Since then, phew! Which is the same for the average Nigerian states actually. So, what's the difference?

That's up to LP and those who sponsored their ticket. We must begin to look beyond party and focus on the substance of the individual.

Obaofaba:
It has never happened before in Nigeria that a very poor state like abia will go into debt of 400 billion naira in a year.

Very weird take.

Last it was checked, Abia is one of the states with the least multidimensional poor people. And while you're at the debt table, are you aware that Lagos, the crown jewel of Nigeria, is actually sitting on a total debt stock of 2 trillion naira, which is about 30 times the total debt stock of Abia State.

That's for the pride of Africa. Maybe you should keep off this discussion.

Dear EFCC,

Come and see something.

Sincerely,
Me.

CastroTbb:
I'm changing to Jeriq next year shaa. I like that #HoodBoy for no particular reason. And I think he is the next big thing in Nigerian hip-hop

Ykb 🥂

Vigilante Bop 🔥
Dog eat Dog 🔥

You be Pitakwa person?

Lol.. According to Spotify, I'm in the top 0.05% of ODUMODUBLVCK's fan. Listened to 22 genres, and most people with my music taste are domiciled in Port Harcourt 😎

WorldRichest:
List the life achievements of your own biological father.

Can you please share the link to where you shared the achievement of yours?

Sincere apologies if you're a test tube baby though🙏🏾

Ttalk:
Yes Daddy should go and rest.

LeoDeKing:
In his capacity as what?

We know what you are 😎

As we continue to work towards the New Nigeria of our dreams, it is important that we keep the conversation going on the roles we all have to play. I will, therefore, be on X Space hosted by @ParallelFacts on Sunday 17th December 2023 by 7pm WAT.

I look forward to interacting with you all on Nation-Building. A New Nigeria is POssible. - PO

The last time Peter Obi appeared on a Twitter Space, it broke into the Top 10 world record attendance on such spaces.

https://twitter.com/PeterObi/status/1735741493392920837?t=ClG6K12zT9SIjoIKCxseMA&s=19

Hypocrisy never fail to show up 😎

What business does a person who is at the forefront of tribal bigotry and anti-Igbo stance everywhere have with this picture below? 😁

He should enjoy his retirement.

Meanwhile, Sunday, December 17 is the code. Make it a date.

I think you are more attracted by the confirmed knowledge that the possibility of sex without consequences is higher

However, you may learn a lifetime lesson on why men are called chasers and women are hunters 😏

Nice one, Oshiomole. However, if this energy is not replicated across board, it can be perceived as an attack or show-off.

Pathetic from Man Utd.

We have lost half of our games all season.