₦airaland Forum

obailala:
What on earth is the meaning of these stupid carnivals?... We have our own culture, we have traditional masquerade festivals with different kinds of 'mmonwu' but we've thrown our culture away under the guise of religion, and now we think the most fashionable thing to do is to import carribbean culture.

Inferiority complex at its peak!

Rocha must have enjoyed Brazilian carnival.

Owerri is choking from congestion due to overpopulation. Daily sea of heads on the streets and traffic congestion.

But other Imo towns are all empty. Because Rocha refused to provide social amenities outside the state capital. He would rather duplicate or triplicate and oftentimes quadruple the same amenity in the state capital.

Worse, there's nobody who can tell Rocha that the only method to decongest the state capital is by modernizing some other towns in his state.

IFEANNYI:
Africans should do as africans and celebrate festivals rather than all this imported carnivals.

Owerri Carnival imported by Rocha. Young girls and boys bussed in from Imo interior to come to witness Rochas "wonder-developments" in the state capital.
Imo state outside Owerri has been dormant and abandoned by Rocha government since the governor joined the APC.

InyinyaAgbaOku:
Mtchew.
He even had to use his own staff to shine.
What are we supposed tp do with this pseudo austerity?
Ndi mmadu sef

Your mumu no pass nama own?
If he had shown up dining in Hotel Presidential, Enugu or Portaharcourt, you could have also grumbled.

Na intelligence people dem de use to make money, no be envy .

nnachukz:
Buhari will be laughing so loud at this fellow. He knows the SW has no mind of her own. When the North comes calling, they will kneel and suck their ass as they did after the North killed Abiola. All the threat from Soyinka then didn't produce any action. This is one those words and no action.

The Southwest. votes are not enough to stop Buhari, a Fulani, in 2019. Twenty states in the old northern region is the magic formula for any northern presidential candidate to win.

Chimaritoponcho:
if only BUHARI's father used a condom that night..

.... and in the other room.

Atiku2019:
True Federalism

Atiku no mean business with chant of True Federalism.
Once he becomes president, one excuse or the other MUST remove True Federalism from his agenda.

Worse, his northern colleagues can't allow True Federalism in Nigeria.

Seun:
This is the right thing to do, but Sunni muslims would rather burn themselves alive than punish fellow Sunnis for killing Shias/Shiites. Sunnis hate Shiites almost as much as they hate non-muslims, despite the fact that Sunnis and Shias practice Islam in almost exactly the same way.

It's being scared by truth to insinuate that because the head of Boko Haram was killed the way it happened, that's why Boko Haram persisted.
Boko Haram wants a country to be governed through Islamic Sharia Criminal laws
The same Islamic Sharia Criminal laws that the twelve northern Nigeria states adopted shortly before Boko Haram emerged.

footprintD55:
According to an eyewitness who posted the photos:“ I was on a tour and building inspection around the region of Ago this afternoon where I encountered a man who just killed a snake before my very eyes. See the giant snake the man killed in the canal area of Ago Palace way, Okota. “Funny enough, the man who killed the snake has tagged it for 20k.“No be small thing oooo. 20k for this meat. shocked!” See more photos below;

Seems that the snake swallowed something.

herzern:
Sir.

You are the man fit for the job.

*You won't award ghost contracts
*You won't pardon the lootinq of our commonwealth
*You won't pay Traditional Rulers dollars for your re-election
*You won't siphon Public funds for private use.



I BELIEVE IN THE GCFR.

There is no characteristic of creation of wealth and abundance and nation building in any of the five attributes you gave to President Buhari. Sorry. We are in recession and going to depression, how does any of the above characteristics save us?

@berserk Op.

Note: even the Apartheid regimes in South Africa never for once arraigned Secret Witnesses against Nelson Mandela.

Buhari and his clan are turning Nigeria into a jungle, twisting established norms and laws to suit the clan of Buhari in Nigeria.

Buhari clan fears disintegration of Nigeria like leprosy.

Is that enough reason for the clan led by Buhari to subvert established judicial systems?

informant001:
The senator also visited the injured at the Ibom International Specialist Hospital.

see more >>> http://www.nationalhelm.net/2016/12/see-photos-of-sen-akpabio-consoling.html

The hospital fine o.

In one APC state in the southeast, you can't find a truly functional government hospital.

sankky:
Farooq Kperogi updated:

Here is a counter to the claim that Buhari met an "empty treasury." Let's read the rebuttal of the Buhari apologists:

"Buhari was handed over:
– $30 billion in our Foreign Reserves,
– $2.5 billion Sovereign Wealth Fund,
– $1.4 billion in the ECA,
– $4.65 billion back taxes from NLNG.
– Buhari met an approved budget of N4.5trillion

Buhari received within a year:
– $2.7 billion collected by Inland Revenue in his first 8 months.
– $2.1 billion world bank loan.
– $850 million Grants from UK, USA and Europe.
– 1.5 trillion saved from fuel subsidy removal
– Excluding crude oil sales, Joint Venture profits, Royalties, Income from Customs, NIMMSA, NPA, NACHO ……
– 3 trilion on STA
not to include the “recovered” looted funds.

More than a year has passed:
1] Not a kilometer of road constructed,
2] Not a watt of Electricity generated,
3] Not a ward added to any Hospital in Nigeria.
4] Not a job space created, except the CBN job he shared with his cronies.
5] Not a grain of corn or tomato seed was provided to farmers. [Fertilizer subsidy taken away and handed back to ex-military men] 6] 41 foreign companies mostly in service industry have left Nigeria
7] 4.3 Million jobs lost in 10 months – National Bureau of Statistics.
8] Food scarcity last experienced in Nigeria between 1983 to 1985 returned.
9] War on Corruption turned into war against his perceived enemies. Convictions by EFCC were cases meticulously started by previous govt(s). Buhari wins cases only on the pages of Newspapers.
10] Nigeria dropped from No.1 Investment destination in Africa to No.27 before South Sudan.
11] Africa's Biggest economy shrank from a GDP of about 7% to -0.36%, the fastest decline in the world since record began.
12] No.3 fastest growing economy in the world to No.83 in 365 days.

And I wonder why the president keeps giving the impression that the country is broke. The problem is not lack of funds, but lack of qualified individuals in the government."

By Umeh Ik Emmanuel

President Buhari had more than that on assumption office.
Issue is with Nigerians. Nigerians knew that Buhari has never piloted any business to profit level, never employed any labour in his business, despite the huge sums of money he had earned all his life from Nigeria right from his early youth when he joined the army.

Who expected a mountain to rise from a mole hill?

nuesaweso:
Did you say storm?

With what? With that big belle? Lwkmd!!!

Asari refused to allow you devastate and abandon his village through oil exploitation, to go and make your village a New York in Africa....
See you, see bad belle,.

ChangeIsCostant:
The People of Ikwerre Local Government most especially the women were seen sitting on the floor directly infront of their Local Government council's gate which is also used as the collation centre in order to resist any form of rigging by political parties. According to reports, this happened after alleged manhandling of the residents by security operatives.

Source; http://www.nationalhelm.net/2016/12/rivers-rerun-see-what-ikwerre-woman-did.html

See women suffering to safeguard the future of their children. But some clueless men sell out for their immediate economic gains.

For how much longer do these south southerners think they can resist these intimidations; intimidations that arise from Arewa plot to take total control of Nigeria with crude oil proceeds in the south?

Who can correct the mistakes of 1967 when some leaders from the southsouth travelled to Kaduna and begged then northern region governor, Hassan Katsina, to plead with Gowon to cut off the non Igbos of the old eastern region from Biafra?

Mistake in the sense that naturally, your closest neighbours are supposed to be your good friends, if not, you live in a miserable neighbourhood.

Immediately after the journey of the "wise??"" SS leaders to Kaduna, Gowon created Rivers and Cross River States. That scuttled Biafra. If Biafra had succeeded, development in today's Nigerdelta could have approached Dubai's development level since 1967.
These women would have been sitting in their cars listening to good music without even bothering to care who Wike or Rotimi are.

In fact, there's a lot of "cluelessness" in the south of Nigeria.

Ha ha ha
In normal countries, many of these youths should have been busy at their places of work making money. Many of them would not even care to go to the election ground.
Many of them wouldn't even know the name of the Rivers state governor.

One Nigeria ahoy. This is just morning.
Una never see something. All of us never see something for ONE Nigeria.

In 1967, their grand pas travelled to Kaduna to beg Fula governor to beg Gowon to carve non Igbos out of Biafra. Rivers and Cross River States emerged and scuttled Biafra.

We now have youths spending time on election grounds, some getting shot.
One Naijeriyaaa ahoy. See what mistrust of closest neighbour causes. In nature, your closest neighbours are supposed to be your good friends, if not, you live miserably in the neighbourhood.

But Rivers state is a state liberated by federal government army, according to Wike during the 50 years anniversary of Rivers state celebrated recently.
So what is Wike crying out loud for? Nyemefe, Abeg. This is just the beginning of the movie.

Most southern Nigerians no get head, wallahitallahi. In the south of Nigeria, groups distrust groups, inter-group squabbles rage. In the process, Fula grabs all the south at the fingertips. APC is more or less a party of Arewa today which Arewa is using to fill its loyal politicians all over Nigeria.

Wow. Elections now real war in Nigeria.

Because one ruling ethnic group in Nigeria wants to place its stooge as governor, legislators and political party leaders in every nook and cranny of Nigeria.

Let Nigerians kukuma surrender completely to the Fula, in other to avoid all these wahala and bloodbath in the country.

Nigerians from the south no get head, instead, they use their tails to fight fellow southerners and in the process, Fula is gradually surrounding the whole south.,

If one million Igbos were killed, can Igbo governors even investigate it talk less issue White Paper?
Every Igbo governor is scheming for a day Arewa politicians will appoint him president of Nigeria.

It's time to remove this thread and Rule 9 banning people who promoted secession.

Replace this post with: NAIRALAND SAYS NO TO RECESSION .

googlepikins:
I have successfully
Stop students ATM cards from working abroad.

Brought starvation to them.

Western Education is Haram.

Why MUST you study abroad in the Western world? ...... Baba's coded message.

effty:
Baba, don't tell us nonsense. Only tell that to Sarrki nd his ilk.

In 1984 when Baba was Nigeria's military dictator, he told the youths, including Sarrki then, that they were the future leaders of Nigeria.

Today Sarrki and his ilk who were the youths in 1984 are supposed to be grand pas.

Yet Buhari is leader of Nigeria of the Sarrkis.

In other words, Sarrki and his ilk are still youths since 1984.

abdul4new:
Oh God not again Bubu and Buratai should keep up with this boko boys and their antics...

Bubu and Buratai are in the east to intimidate easterners from clamouring for Biafra. Loooool.

They are in the markets of Onitsha, Ariaria Aba, Ogbete, and other markets and highways in the east intimidating innocent civilians.

Buratai may even be in ceremony receiving Igbo chueftaincy title, and convinces himself that Biafra is not real.

northvietnam:
jokers in karki...

I weep for this Country

Not just jokers in Khaki, an Armed forces converted into Community Police Force.

Heavily Armed Soldiers ubiquitous like School Children in picnic every where in Nigeria.

Ugly Scenes. Signs of Military Dictatorship in Nigeria.
Buhari needed to have known that these soldiers can't keep Nigeria one for long.

akilo1:
before house of rep doing this the common sense senator is busy on twitter #ben bruce

Loooool.

Bruce wants to Tweet himself to Presidency.
As if he didn't observe how helpless Goodluck Jonathan was as president.

Nigeria's political structure was rigged to such that Arewa has near-absolute majority in the country's political process to direct who ever is president and what can happen in Nigeria.

Otuoke couldn't even get common running water from Jonathan's presidency. But the $1.09 standard gauge railway lines were built in the north during Jonathan's presidency.

Obasanjo as president couldn't even asphalt the road to his Ota in Ogun state. He seized Lagos state local government allocations during most of his tenure, perhaps in a bid to satisfy northern kingmakers that he was still loyal.

ojmaroni247:
This na initial Gragra it won't fly unless oil has been found in the North, abi Dem done find am already na em make Dem Wan pass am.

Lol. Did you not read the stances of Speaker Dogara and the other northern Rep against the Bill?
Dogara even called it a wasted exercise debating the Bill.

In Nigeria of rigged political structure that has twenty federal units in the north, resource control can't be incorporated into the constitution, as 19 northern Houses of Assembly and most Southwest Houses of Assembly can't accept to pass such amendments to the constitution.

Unless the TonyeBarcanisters from the Southsouth can provide a formula to include Resource Control into the constitution.

The Barcas sit tight in one Nigeria asking for political restructuring and resource control, as they forlornly hope for the day Arewa shall say "Yesssssss" to resource control and political restructuring.

courage89:
Seriously, this is madness. It is unfortunate that we've allowed religion to take over our sense of reasoning. Issues that requires logical approach now requires spiritual interpretation. How do you motivate populace to dream, to set goals, plan, persevere when all we do is tell them to pray their way out of everything. While I am not against any religion, nor I'm I against praying. But, I believe common sense should prevail when we are crafting our laws; what kind of society we envisioned, the attitude of people towards their dreams and critical path required in the attainment of this dream. Do we want to create innovative, entrepreneurial, futuristic society or do we want to create a stagnating society where people are easily manipulated to just follow orders. The choice is ours to make. Our future will be shaped based on the policy structure, systems, culture we put in place today.

I encourage everyone to read "Start up nation, The story of Israel Economic Miracle" by Dan Senor. The story about how the culture of excellence, meritocracy, entrepreneurial spirits transformed Israel from a struggling nation to a first world country. How they became the top innovative country in the world.

Loooool, you are preaching to people whose soul, mind and body are occupied by crude oil from the Nigerdelta.

All the religious extremism in Nigeria are politically motivated. The end game is one religion of northern Nigeria dominating to take over government processes with control of proceeds from crude oil in the Nigerdelta.

Is Nigeria the only country in Sub-Saharan Africa that has large number of Muslims?

The frenzy to include Sharia Criminal codes in Nigeria's constitution is behind all these new preoccupation with religious laws in the National Assembly.

deantimes:
Source: http://www.socialtimesng.com/2016/12/bill-to-establish-christian-court-scales-second-reading/

Wow, this is a ploy to pass a bill to include Sharia Criminal codes into the constitution.

Who needs Ecclesiastical Courts? The New Testament Bible teaches Christians to turn the other cheek when assaulted on the other cheek, that's forgiveness.

How about Esun Court? Ogboni, and Atheist courts? Nigeria has been barstadized by religious extremists from one particular religion.

ibkgab001:
Will that stop them from producing fake items

Mugu's don't understand that Japanese cars were first branded fake by European detractors.

Mugu's don't understand that you first manufacture substandard products, and latter perfect them.

inspire700:
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has denied that he’s planning to leave the party.The APC leader made the denial on Monday, December 5, via Twitter.
“In our Journey to national betterment, plans and policies will be made, then amended. Mistakes will occur and then corrected... Achievements will be had & replicated. Through it all, I, Asiwaju will remain true to the progressive ideals that fueled the creation of APC,” he wrote.

“I have devoted my political life to achieve what has been achieved. My heart is too much of the people and my mind too fixed on establishing a positive historic legacy... rather than engage in destructive pettiness.
“This government, APC, is for the betterment of the people & the national purpose is bigger and more important than any individual's desires.

“This is a party I labored with others to build. We would not abandon it for another. Millions of Nigerians who voted are watching and praying,” he added.

Rumour has it that Tinubu is planning to leave the APC to start another party because he is supposedly being ill-treated in the APC.


The supposed ill-treatment has caused Governor Ayo Fayose and Femi Fani-Kayode, who are members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to speak up and criticize Tinubu’s protégés for betraying him.

SOURCE: http://www.gistpark.com/2016/12/im-not-leaving-apc-tinubu-assures.html

You must not leave APC until Yoruba land completely becomes an extension of Sokoto Caliphate.

Religion is like Opium.

Who does not understand that APC is now fully in the hands of descendants of Othman Dan Fodio?