₦airaland Forum

Flets:
If by chance Buhari wins this election, extremely hard times lies ahead for this country. 

Definitely, the creeks will go haywire again, Buhari will send the troops to the creeks and together they will set the oil facilities ablaze.

While these persists, the oil producing companies will simply withdraw their personnel from the volatile region and all foreign investment will seize in all sectors.And even if the troops kill 90% of the militants, it will take just one militant, a dynamite and just one location along the multi- kilometre trunklines to continue to wreck havoc. 

Fast forward to 2019, if we remain one country and without a civil war,, we will be an economic wreck with no allocations and salaries, no capital projects, no hope with dollar exchanging for 400 naira and we are worse off than we were in 2015.

Cos the truth is that without crude proceeds for now, Nigeria is finished. 

And then, we'll be screaming another 'Change' because we would have learnt a bitter lesson in the hands of the Fulanis, Tinubu and Saraki.And then we will ask.... Why were we this silly?

And before you quote me, make sure you outline in clear terms how you or Buhari will avert this obvious calamity staring us in the face


Only last week, they creek boys seem to have resumed activities by kidnapping at Yoho facility operated by Exxonmobil and have shut in 80KBD already. Are we ready for this for the next 4 years?

The entire world stands to benefit from a crisis in the Niger delta. Its not a coincidence that USA who abandoned us at the height of bokoharam is busy shouting for change in govt . Crises in the ND will reduce supply of crude to the Oil market and that would drive up the price of crude for producing countries.... But at Nigeria's expense.

Nigerians.... Be Warned!!!

Please reserve your message of doom for u and your ilk,when Obj/yaradua were there and ur militants went haywire were things as bad as it is now even with the relative peace the criminals you call miltants are maintaining?

What nonsense! Why won't he have mouth to talk? When he is not being investigated as a probable don running the “soka slaughter house in Ibadan“ Thunder fire u and ur dirty binladenish beards.

If Dame shepo piss is the role model of every Nigerian woman,then I must say there is little hope in our future as a nation.

D guy wasn't getting enuf kpomo @ home so he had to face-the-buka.

matrixme:
Sorry I have to chip this in. Your rewards for NYSC community development services are not really motivated by the awards you get. If you truly did all these things, then why should you still be seeking human rewards. Think of it this way, you have enriched your CV and left an indelible legacy somewhere in Nigeria. Best wishes

That dosent justify the corruption in selecting awardees or likely replacement of those who deserve it with others.

Cc: Afam4eva,Maclatunji please can you move this to front page as we need to get to the root of the matter on why dedicated and outstanding ex-corpers shouldn't be honoured.
I'm very sure Nl is very capable of attracting responses from top officials of NYSC.

Many thanks.

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE NYSC DIRECTOR-GENERAL
By AUGUSTINE OKORODUDU
ISSUES WITH THE 2014 NYSC PRESIDENTIAL HONOURS AWARD
Sir, I salute you and members of your team with the hope that this get to your table.
First, let me apologize for this open way of drawing your attention to the outcome of the joint NYSC presidential   award ceremony for 2012, 2013 and 2014 sets held on the 2nd of March 2015. I have decided on this approach because the issues involved are of urgent public interest.
More so,  I am one of the supposed nominees for the award.  I am a graduate of mass communication from the  Delta State University, Abraka. I was called up for the NYSC scheme  on the  2nd of July 2012 for batch 'B' in Anambra State with the State code AN/12/0575. Having completed the 3 weeks orientation Course; I was posted to Nnamdi Azikiwe secondary school Abagana in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State. Completing  NYSC on 6th July 2013, I was conferred with Anambra state honours award as the “most outstanding youth corps member” among  my batch of 3,200 corps members.
Ordinarily, I should not have taken this course to write an open letter to you using this medium but for the barrage of calls from my former Place of Primary Assignment(PPA), Abagana Community and colleagues ever since the awards were held on Monday 2nd March 2014. Many said they saw it over the news and were calling to congratulate me as they were sure I was among those honoured. As I pen  this down to you, Anthony Soro Olubumi who was the most outstanding corps member for batch  'A' 2012 in the same state also called saying he was not selected. Lawal Olabode Emmanuel Prince who also came out tops for 2012 batch 'C' in the same  state also sent me a message of how he was surprised that the awards have been held without any of us in 2012 service year in Anambra state.
Again, I think it is important I know what may have transpired as this issue does not require silence anyone. It was Desmond Tutu who wrote; “if you are neutral in the face of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”.
I was glad to have read on the Vanguard Newspaper of 17th October, 2014 a story titled: "No favouritism in NYSC presidential award, says DG".  The story quoted you as saying “the assignment before the committee is a very sensitive one, therefore, decisions arrived at must be fair, so that they will not only stand the scrutiny of the general public, but meet the expectation of all Nigerians. Although the report claim that Nigerians of high integrity constituted members of the selection committee, it did not rule out the fact that past awards had been fraught with irregularities.
The outcome of the awards again brings to question the level of fairness, commitment and transparency of members of the selection committee.
Available records shows that 164 which represent 27% of the 613 nominations were selected, what happens to the 446 who were not selected of which many were best in their respective batches at the state level?
No doubt the initiative of rewarding ex-corps members is very laudable, but come to think of it, is someone who scored 27% in any examination said to have passed that examination?
On page 28, paragraph 2 of my NYSC orientation/ service guide with the heading: Awards During the Service Year; it states that awards are presented to corps members who distinguish themselves in initiating and successfully executing life-touching community development service project/programme either individually or as a group during the service. The manual further enumerated the coveted awards to include:
Presidential Honours Award plus automatic employment in the Federal Civil Service, State Honours Award with automatic employment in the state civil Service, Local Government Award, Certificate of merit, certificate of commendation and the likes.
In my own case, I won the state Honours award as the best corps member for batch 'B' 2012 in Anambra with 47 community developments projects.  NYSC in Anambra state paid N50,000 into my account about 3 months after my service, giving the excuse that the state government did not disburse funds early enough for the award winners. 50,000 naira for the most outstanding corps member of the year? What about the automatic employment in the state civil service that is clearly written in the orientation guide? A staff in NYSC Anambra state headquarters said it was discretional for states to do so. I think  there is  need for a  little clarification from a supreme authority such as yours in this matter.  This scenario playing out is an indication  of our attitude in this part of the world were what is documented is different from what is in actuality. However, when I spoke last with the NYSC state coordinator Mrs. Bassey Inyang Ekpe to confirm the payment of the N50,000 into my account, she congratulated me and told me that my name and Udoh Tony Ekot who emerged 2nd had been forwarded to the Abuja office of NYSC for further ratification.
I am one of those who believe winning any of the NYSC Awards is not by luck or chance because the criteria are clearly stated in the statutes of NYSC. But what about a country such as ours where anything is possible. Someone once said nothing goes for nothing. Do such factors as ‘Godfatherism’ and political interest come to play in a highly respected award that is supposed to be based on merit?
For the presidential honours award, NYSC says every award winner is expected to have distinguished himself/herself in all the four cardinal phases of the service year- the orientation/induction course; the primary assignment; the secondary assignment (Community development service); and the winding up/passing out activities. Above all, he or she would have conceived/initiated and/or executed a personal community service project that would benefit his or her host community. In addition,  such personal qualities as character, sense of duty, drive and determination, resourcefulness, special contributions, teamwork, leadership, self-confidence amongst others. If all these were weighed in concrete terms by the Dr. Ihenetu Kelvin led selection committee for the 2014 presidential award, how come me or any of the winners of the 2012 service year in Anambra was not selected.  What were the spectacular projects that stood only 164 persons out of 613?
Director General Sir, I had a spectacular service year. Mine was one of the tangible benefits of the NYSC programme. Mr Clems Ofoedu the principal of Nnamdi Azikiwe Secondary Abagana were I served happened to have served in St Paul’s Grammar School, Ebu my town in Delta State between 1983-84. Twenty eight years later, precisely in June 2012 someone from Ebu was posted to his community where he was already a principal.
I was the head of programmes in the orientation Broadcasting Service (OBS) at Umunya. I enlisted in   the one week course of the Peer Educator Trainers of the National Reproductive Health, HIV& AIDS Prevention and care project through the NYSC. Also in camp, I  gave a talk on the parade ground during one of the morning assembly on behalf of platoon (5) as well as other camp activities.
Having identified some key needs in the school  and community on resumption in my place of primary assignment,  my first point of call was a familiarization tour with the Igwe Abagana Palace HRM Obi Mbamalu Okeke and the President General Chief I.I Onwubuya. Their responses motivated me to put together my project proposal to the NYSC state Secretariat in Anambra.  On the receipt of approval from the state NYSC, work started. Meanwhile I could not travel for the Christmas 2012 because the principal had invited me to a meeting of all Abagana sons and daughters home and abroad on the 26th of December 2012 to pitch my project ideas to them, asking for their support which marked a major turnaround to my project.
I renovated the school gate in honour of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe the first president of Nigeria, whom the school is named after. I  cultivated a cassava farm for indigent widows in Abagana community, organized the Students Productive Life Initiative (SPLIN) that bothered on cultural reorientation in line with the Subakwa Igbo agenda of the Anambra State Government for 11 secondary schools in Njikoka L.G.A.  I also organized an execution with 40 students to NTA channel  5 Awka, Radio Nigeria Mgbakwu and Afrihub ICT center in UNIZIK. I  produced the Nigeria Peace Jingle in the face of insurgency and violence, I initiated the revitalization of the school borehole sponsored by the state government through the rural water supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASA) while also  embarking on skills acquisition on liquid soap production across 3 L.G.A in the State. I donated food items to the Nigeria Prisons Service Awka and the motherless babies’ home at Nise as well as flagged off the project keep NASSA clean for a cleaner and safer environment. All these are aside the numerous sensitization to market places and churches in the community either alone or with my  CDS group. The peer Educator training course in camp was never a waste as I mentored 40 students as educators as well as established a functional press club that championed the publication of the 2013 edition of the school magazine- the Light!
These are just a few of some projects the almighty God with the financial support of well meaning Abagana people and organizations such as the Ifeanyi Ubah Foundation, RCCG Anambra Province, 1999-2005 NASSA Old Boys, Save the Youth Empowerment Foundation (SAYEF), Heroes family Church, St. Mark’s Catholic Church, Mrs Roseline Obiakor, Uche Diobi, Mr Ugor-Ojor Samuel among others. The progress report of all these were captured at both the L.G.A level and the CDS department of Anambra NYSC. The final project report was also submitted in record time in accordance to instructions from Mr Ayorinde Ayanda who was head of the CDS department at that time. Despite all these, my lessons as a C.R.S teacher did not suffer one day. Because we were staying in the Corpers lodge right inside the school, it even afforded me time for extra mural lessons with the boarding students and some students who stay around.
Please without sentiments and being perceived as egoistic, I think this kind of effort deserves a presidential award on merit. What about Lawal Olabode Emmanuel Prince state code AN/12C/2008 who served at comprehensive secondary Nawfia in the same L.G.A. I could testify to his laudable efforts in the school because I was privileged to have guided him through some of his projects of over 64. Prince was the second best in the 2012 batch 'C' in Anambra State. He constructed and equipped a five-bed clinic which was his flagship project; he organized the maiden Local Government science quiz Competition for 15 schools in the L.G.A and presented 12 medals for winners, including academic scholarship worth 50,000 naira. The sick bay he built is currently serving a population of over 1500 within the school and beyond. The school in conjunction with Nawfia community gave Prince the title, Oka A-Obuluzor 1 Na Nawfia, meaning “a man that will say a thing and will be the first to do it”.
Again, don’t people like Prince deserve the Presidential award on merit?  
The case of Udoh Anthony Ekot who embarked on massive renovation of a totally dilapidated administrative block at community high school Nawgwu in Dunukofia L.G.A is another case in point.  A project the entire community agreed was first of its kind to be carried out by a corps member since over 22 years of the school. Tony was the second best in the 2012 batch B set.
What about Soro  Anthony Olubumi who also clinched the title of the “corper of the year” for the 2012 batch 'A'. His zeal and enthusiasm I must say contributed to my motivation in the very choking times of my CDS projects. Tony was seriously into skill acquisition trainings for rural women. He was instrumental to laudable projects at Girls secondary school Abagana his PPA.  He was also a Development Knowledge Facilitator (DKF) for the MDGs FACOUR component. I also think that the remarkable effort of both Anthony Ekot and Soro Olubumi deserves a national recognition. These cases mentioned are laced with verifiable evidences at the community, L.G.A and state levels.  What then happened to these persons in a whole service year that could not make the presidential list despite their outstanding performances? Or was it an oversight; a very expensive at that?
These are the more reasons why I think the Dr Kelvin Ihenetu led committee needs to answer some questions. Was the criteria used for the selection same as the ones contained in the NYSC statute book?
How did they arrive at selecting only 164 winners representing 27% out of 613 nominations of “most outstanding corps members”?
How come no one was selected in the entire 2012 set in Anambra State?
Were there any special considerations that are not documented or another political gimmick to cajole weak and gullible Nigerians to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28th elections?
Or the issues of ‘Godfatherism’ and the ‘powers that be’ spearheaded the entire exercise?
If the award really aims to encourage corps members towards higher societal ideals through selfless service to their host communities and if NYSC must live up to its core values of integrity, efficiency, patriotism and commitment, the just concluded 2014 edition must be revisited with the aim of correcting the obvious lacunas in the selection process. I say this because no nation can survive on social injustice, dishonesty and corruption. A nation that does not enthrone integrity as central virtue for her citizens; a nation which does not give highest credence and dedication to hard work; a nation which judges the value of people by the number of political connections they have or those who can pay their way through anything not by the magnanimity of their hearts; a nation that celebrate mediocre, and lacks discipline in public and private life, is a nation which has lost her soul.
As they say in our local parlance “If salt too much for soup, blind man go know”
Further evidences are available in words, pictures and videos in the attached links for your objective perusal and assessment of well meaning Nigerians. http://thenationonlineng.net/new/a-corps-members-lending-hand-2/          
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDR1PbBBT08 http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=43255    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD5JV5TcYVU
I would also want to urge NYSC to publish the entire CDS portfolios of both the already selected winners and all others nominated.
The entire issue should be revisited to ensure equity and fairness, especially as it regards the integrity of a well adored institution like the NYSC.  
Augustine Okorodudu can be reached on
austin4crist@gmail.com

ladyabadi:
1. What are you thinking(question after sex).2 .Are u sleeping?

Now that's one question they ask after straffing,buh pls why dyu ladies seem to ask same questions? Do u guys have secret meetings or una dey share same network?

See the guy sef dey form sexy by force,Bony something like croaker fish.

Rape or three_some gone sour?why the lady sef follow two guys go dem hood?
Anyway RIP.

Koya86:
This year's NYSC President's Honours award had something different added by the offer of 50 automatic employment by Heritage Bank (me no want work for bank oo). Now that we have been decorated by His excellency, past recipients in the house, please share with us necessary information that will be of help in ensuring the fulfillment of the promises- Job and scholarship. What necessary steps should we take?. We look forward to receiving your recommendation.

Hello koya,congrats and how did the program go? During the whole event did you happen to see or hear of any awardee from anambra state? because I have a friend who did a heavy project in anambra and wasn't invited even the best corper in anambra batch B 2012 wasn't invited so please hint me.

Thanks
NB:Please reply as soon as you can.

jide333:
May your children and children's children die of ignorance, hate, die like rats. May Thunder fire the whole of your household, may you not experience peace and you will bury your children with your own hands.. IF WHAT YOU POST HERE IS NOT TRUE I PRAY ALL THESE SHALL BEFALL YOU.. But if what you post is true then you don't have to worry about any bad thing happening to you.. PLEASE SAY AMEN! Quote me without an answer and let the GODs of Ogun strike you and your family dead... SCUM LIARS

Bros what is wrong with you? Do you have to be so uncouth in your assertions? Mien!! I was scared when I read what you wrote,all because of what? Politics? Please hold your horses and try to control ur utterances even if this is a faceless forum. Even Jonathans child wouldn't react the way u just did.

SeverusSnape:
Almajiric Pig, Buhari foot soldier.

Pained mofo...

Seems you are off steam tonight,you can do better,blind bat towing the path of darkness. My message to you; try to be more responsible on this forum and I'm sure u have somfin upstairs....Use it!!!

Quote me again and go bald!

SeverusSnape:
You're a waste of space on the face of the earth.

Easy dooog,eaaaasy,before you lash out and bite at your phone keypad and screen,Rabid mongrel.

SeverusSnape:
simple: An illiterate can't debate.
Even in his wildest dreams, He can't debate even patience Jonathan.

And someone paid for your education? What a waste.

Whether dark or fair, she still looks like an imbe....

The op is just dumb,and I would bet my last kobo ur not a student there (I trust and hope jamb dosent let mumus like u get in).Visit OAU and change ur confession.
Great Ife

What could she have done? Or maybe the question should be “who owns the baby?“

Pebcak:
Doyin Okupe,JEG, Abati,Fayose (From L-R)
https://cdn.makeagif.com/media/3-15-2015/7XJFp9.gif

can y'all spot Oga at the Top here too

OMG! This is soooo hilarious!

theV0ice:
Comrade, I just Sidon there dey form James bond but my mind don travel far. The funny thing was that I initially booked for the 6:50am flight but got to the check in counter by 6:30am and was denied entry. I had to pay an extra 13k to get included in the 10:35am flight that eventually left at 11am.

All these because I stubbornly insisted on eating rice and dodo before leaving home that morning

Hahaha! 13k + lateness? reminds me of an old song by mike okri or so...“Dodo ati rice kogbodo koja won a jeun jeun jeun won a gbodo roboto hear ur mama hear ur papa life go better for u“

INDUSTRIALFAN:
The hair long pass the girl knee o.... What if she enter bike and the thing enter chain

Ur profile message is hilarious.

theV0ice:
Your own is small. His trip to bayelsa through PH on friday, 6th february kept me in the air from 11am to 12:50pm because we were denied landing access at PH int'l airport. It was an aero contractors flight from Lagos to PH. The plane reversed in the air twice.

The thing no funny at all

Hahahahahahahaaahahahahha! OMG! Dis is so funny so them suspend una for air like bubbles? Flying the presidential skies

mdgreen:
Some people have a shallow brain. Let me make something clear here, the present president is the most transparent president Nigeria as ever have. For Inec to be talking about card reader for election today is not by their own power but the approver of the present government. Then what on earth gives the APCmonger to think of the same GeJ trying to ring election. ApC is already a failure . Oji, barawo. Ojoisoinvolve. OMA Attah megba shaka.
This picture potrate PDP and APC due to election prosponment.

OMG! Its a bird!
No! Its a plane!
No! Its a flying saucer!
Its! Its! Its! A very stupid comment.

I would avenge ur sins even unto the fourth generation,now tell me that these policemen and their families won't pay for these atrocities?
SMH vigorously.

PLEXPLEX:
This guy is becoming a praise singer.What do he want of APC?

Try to be objective in ur arguments, this man is one of naijas most respected artistes in africa and beyond and he has in recent times tried to steer off the dirty game,I guess he's just pissed with the belittling statement made by a man whose mouth remains ajar. Any nigerian should be pissed @ such statements too.

PS: I remember dis man refused to perform for a Nigerian politician with a dirty and tainted past recently.

So we can't get facts on nl again? dat we now have lies gracing our beloved and once respected front page. MODs have got some crios work on their hands to prove they are not biased.

Sounds like a nigerian version of bourne identity. IBB sure has Satans DNA somwhere embedded in him.

People from both sides of the current political divide all agree on one thing.
That its a nice and creative write-up irrespective of the political theme and message passed.
Meanwhile you missed a verse.

* Subjects far and wide of the black kingdom continued to wallow in darkness and abject poverty under the reign of king Jonah son of locki as they also had to live with a barrage of foul language from the fat moistened lips of queen jonah the patient shepopotamic who hails from the borders of the okrikian atlantic,ren son of kirikiri,doy the noodle brain son of Upe and Fank son of Ode (who openly declared carnal knowledge of the fair maiden of the warlord whose manhood lives on)

pak:
Too much porn these days.....

So many young men and women walk around with fetish fantasies and seek any opportunity to practice them.

Truth is there are some genre of porn dedicated to young men having sex to old women. A young boy who watches too much of those won't have problems being turned on by older women.


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But asides that, though I can't exactly put a finger on why some things sound fishy in the woman's role in the whole saga.

I do not like too many coincidences in a story but let's reel the awkward parts of this case out.

*The door was unlocked (excuse, the building wasn't completed and yet she could keep 16k plus in the same house)

*She was sleeping stark unclad (knowing fully well that her door was unlocked )

*The average human instinctively reaches for clothing if caught unawares by anybody whether it be burglar or relative (from the narrative, she was apparently still unclad until the guy got turned on and mounted her - imagine walking unclad looking for money for a burglar ? blimey!)

*The boy was described as a frail looking 16 yr old son of a number (I guess he still held the rod while ejaculating)

*She didn't run out for help by daybreak rather called her husband who for whatever reasons was away, in a typical yoruba community, the woman would have cried for help by daybreak and the boy would have been dragged out and lynched (by the way, where were the 52 yr old woman's kids)

*For 3 good days the husband did nothing, just sprinkling charms (seriously are you sure they didn't use the poor boy's sperm for some diabolic charm ?) rationally, any man would have been so enraged and would have ensured the boy was arrested, lynched or killed the very day he heard it. rather this man was sprinkling charms for 3 days !!!!

Anyway, there might be plausible answers to my observations but truth is, when a story has too many coincidences, definitely something is fishy !!!!

God bless u X10^e
I'm not supporting rape buh d “boy“ boinked the woman despite the fact dat she recognised he was a little teenager and even afta dat it took 3days for the boy to be arrested?