₦airaland Forum

It's natural to fight in the assembly because people are usually passionate when it comes to issues of their constituency at the national level.

Imagine a situation where a senator is moving a motion that soldiers are being sent to kill people in your constituency, wouldn't you want to free your mind and show yourself?

As they say, action speaks louder than words.

Some people go import poisonous rice, deposit am far away from their house, dem forget say the thing must circulate land ontop their dinner table.

My fellow Nigerians, this drug issue is very serious.

No wonder the British are more and more acting like cousins in the USA. I will tell you that these countries are doing very little to deter demand of hard drugs. The punishment for suppliers are much harsher than the end users. When people are caught importing hard drugs, they don't get sent to a shrink, they get sent to jail. However, when the real drug users are caught, in most cases, they are begged to go to rehab or some other social program. That is not enough.

In fact, I begin to gradually realise that prostitution, drug trafficking and gambling in most parts of Europe and the USA are illegal not not just by virtue of these things being bad, but due to difficulty of collecting taxes.

Some localities and even some entire countries have found a way of taxing gamblers and prostitutes and have thereby licensed professionals to freely engage in these acts. I hear even in Amsterdam, consumption of a drug such as Cannabis is completely legal. So I believe it is all about revenue collection, not moral issues.

Coming t the issue of Nigeria as a traffic route, I promise you that there is no single Virgin Atlantic airplane that leaves Lagos without at least one trafficker fully loaded.

The thing we do not consider is that the South Americans passing drugs through Nigeria have plans to expand their markets to Nigeria. As GDP per capita rises, they will make sure we don't only export en masse, but consume at least an equivalent quantity of what we export. So beware.

This Sanusi Lamido guy did not set out to compare 3 different regions, he was out to tell two other regions that are always complaining about what is always holding them back.

Even if you don't like the language, but you did mention that he made some relevant points. I can see why one person should see some relevant points yet not want another to make sense of the article.

The man was telling us the crude truth.

Most southern Nigerian cultures operate in tiny societies. It won't work in today's world.

We need to change.

Well, Nairalanders are getting wiser. The list is a complete fraud.

Is there any bank in the world that can open an account for a customer as General Abubakar or General Wushishi?

The thing is that we are unable to fully understand what a billion dollars is.

No be only £9 billion, na 50 thousand trucks of diamond.

Northern Nigerians are a very UNITED people. We look at the people in the north and fail to realise that there are several unique tribes of which the largest in numbers should be the Hausas, the Kanuris and the Fulanis.

The Fulanis and the Hausas fought for years before the Hausas were conquered. Yet when the Fulanis realised they could not dominate the Hausas for lack of numbers, they integrated into the Hausa royal families and now the average Fulani lives side-by-side the Hausa. None superior, none inferior. Even after the British came and left they still remained as one.

Look at the Binis and the Lagosians. The Binis would have continued to oppress the Lagosians till eternity if not that they called in the British to enter into neo-colonialism. The southerners will always remember that we are not one, circumstances brought us together therefore they'll seek every means to disintegrate into the most minute groups.

The Kanuris and the Hausa/Fulanis are also very distinct and different people. The Kanuris in the East, the Hausas in the Central and the Fulanis to the west. But when they do things, It's together. Most of us do not even know how different these people are because of their oneness.


When the British came here, they saw the Fulani system of government was what was best for Nigeria and most of their colonies and in as much as they tried to educate us in their own western system, and break down the Northern educational system, at the end of the day they realised that the Fulanis were far ahead in terms of politics. As far as the 1800's, Uthman bin Fodee (Usman dan Fodio) had written several books on how to conquer and rule, govern and manage people. We down here were still living mostly on trial and error.


Look at people who are still fighting over who really owns Warri and all sorts of tribal trivialities.

Disunity, therefore we are not ready. Funny enough the North will give you power in order to continue ruling. They work with a handbook.

Please does anyone know where I can REBRAND my old Cortina shoes by Bata into a pair of Alligator skin Gucci shoes? Size 42 by the way.

Er, you see, when you said plans, I was hoping to see sketches, maps, blue prints and strategic documents.

Please don't scare me like this again.

Congratulations ladies and gentlemen, THE RICE HAS ARRIVED! I repeat: THE RICE HAS ARRIVED!

We have been saved from hunger and starvation. UN, God bless una. Sierra Leone, I knew you were going to pay us back for bringing you democracy.

Enjoyment don land.


Seriously though, let's not take these people too seriously. The rice had already arrived before the NSA sent out their report. We're just in the same cycle of deception in which we've always been. Let's not look at this rice as a bad thing. Let's just laugh over it. Some will fall sick and some will die, but really the people who could have done something did not.

I'm just 30 and already with severe high blood pressure because of Nigeria and Nigerians. All I can do now is make jokes and laugh. I can't kill myself.

The reactor at ABU is experimental. It produces less electricity than can satisfy an entire town. Besides, how you anybody feel if such an experiment is connected to the NEPA grid. Okay O!

If water is the basic requirement for locating a Nuclear Power Plant, how come I don't hear people mentioning Lagos, Rivers and Bayelsa?

Shall it be double standards when Russia comes to evacuate our enriched uranium but not when the USA does? So in other words all the countries utilizing nuclear energy must build nuclear bombs. Hmmm, now I see why Iran and USA will continue to have problems. So all those Eastern European countries that have had nuclear power plants during the Soviet era are currently producing nuclear weapons?

The issue is that Nigerians don't want to appreciate anyone that is real to them. If Nigeria should call the US president to come and discuss ways to cooperate for mutual benefit, Obama won't come. Now we call on Russia and Medvedev is coming down, so we want to run him down. We want to go out in the streets and protest. No wonder we're still here and going nowhere.

Well, I think Yar'Adua should go to Libya in order to beg for the release those criminals who have sworn that it is better to die in the high seas, become food to vultures in the Sahara desert or rot in a Libyan jail cell that work hard in Nigeria.

I am from Edo state, yet my recent decision to leave Lagos and go settle in Benin City has stunned my fellow Edos. They just feel trapped, they just want to get out.

The amount of shame that Edo State indigenes alone have earned this country in the areas of 'Yahoo', Italian Prostitution and Desert Crossing is more than any other group has managed. It has gotten to such a horrible extent that when criminals from other countries are caught, they go ahead to declare Nigerian citizenship, with Benin as place of birth.

Una d'oO O!

ASUU is the same thing as MEND. Just take away the guns.

All they want is money in their bank accounts, yet they will not ask it. They will put student welfare as their gamble and continue to truncate and stagnate the students' future.

Over the years, ASUU has been striking, all they concessions the Federal Government made has been used to give themselves pay rise. Let these private universities reach the level the government universities are, that is when ASUU will shed tears.

They don't know that the ultimate end of government's deregulation of the educational sector would be to privatise all the public universities. Let ASUU continue to strike till when majority of Nigerian students are in private schools. That is when they will know what strike is.

They will strike that their salaries are meagre, they will strike that their incompetent colleagues were sacked, they will strike that while they were on 3 months strike they weren't paid salaries (as if they should be), they will strike that they will soon strike, they will strike after they finish from a strike.

Abeg ASUU should just buy guns for their members and hold the government to ransom the way they would really love to. They should start killing students if their demands are not met. Afterall, even know they don't know, but they're killing the students starting from their spirit.

For the very last time, let me say it that Nigeria is not the Giant of anywhere. All along, Nigeria was just Nigeria but I think this giant of Africa name started among those of our parents that started destroying this country in the '80s because they could not account for anything tangible that Nigeria was good for at that time so they threw up the giant of Africa and it caught on.

Nigeria has the most numerous amount of people in Africa and that is where it ends. By land area, we're even a child.

Please let it be that I'm hearing the very last of this Giant of Africa matter.

Abeg make we hear word jare! I thought you wanted to reveal the truth that the Ijaws were partly using all these their freedom fighting propaganda to wipe out Itsekiri and Urhobos so they can have a larger area to bunker oil from.

Do you even know the meaning of genocide? How can you tell me that genocide is being committed against the aggressors.

Can an armless person fish? If really the JTF killed two armless men who claimed to be fishermen, then I support the JTF because I wouldn't understand how an armless man would fish. Why would even armed fishermen be in the creeks of the Niger-Delta at this time of war? Their kinsmen have declared war so they're either for or against.

We are proud to mention 2 "armless" fishermen the JTF killed but let me ask you a very important question. The drivers, P.A.s and staff of oil companies that were shot dead by MEND during the period of kidnapping foreigners, was that not genocide too? Or those people had no tribe? They were mostly Ijaws killed by Ijaws. The cult wars fought in the streets of Port Harcourt and the Creeks of the Niger-Delta, were those killed without ethnic groups? They were Ijaws still killing Ijaws, and if the Ijaws can kill themselves so efficiently if they can terrorise, abduct and slaughter one another so haplessly, I wonder why Goodluck Jonathan should try to think of any better way for the Federal Government to wipe his people off the surface of the earth.

I want to hereby call on Nairalanders to limit themselves to using only words which they are very conversant with before I go genocidal in here. Thank you.

Senate berates Government?!

Who is Senate and who is Government?

You people should stop typing okpata online.

The Senate cannot even berate the Executive because it is the Senate that approves the budget which the Executive would work with. So if the Senate had approved a budget in which 26% went to education, the Executive would have gone ahead to implement. I don't understand what these ones are saying O! In fact, I believe that it is the Executive that should berate the Senate.

What is bad for these Sierra Leoneans may actually be very good for Nigerians.

We have consumed poisonous beans, noodles, milk, drugs and even human flesh in the form of suya (courtesy Clifford Orji & Co.), we're still here.

Why are we even complaining? It is rich people that mostly eat rice and they buy it from the market. The market where the UN rice is going to end up. If it was poisonous Garri or Poisonous Pure Water, I'll have panicked.

Abeg, let them even import Poisonous Moet, Deadly Hennesy, and irradiating Cigars.

Most of us were here still, on Nairaland back in the year 2007 when Ireland was challenging the hosting of the FIFA by Nigeria. Their tabloids wrote several article of how Abuja was a slum, how people were suffering all over Nigeria, and how the government was oppressing their citizen with huge taxes which would be used to host the FIFA '09.

What did I say? I declared on this forum that it was best the Irish host the tournament.

There is no African country that can host a FIFA World Cup Event and make profit off it, except Egypt. Even South Africa will not have a PROFITABLE tournament. Is it Zimbabweans that will bring the much needed foreign currency? Is it the Swazis? Is it the Congolese or the Rwandans that will spend so much on hotel and tourism?

It is sad that most Africans think that the hosting of the world cup is a thing of pride. No, it is not! It is a thing of profit. The German government made $20 billion directly from hosting the '06 World Cup. From other secondary means such as taxation of Hotels and Tourist Companies, Restaurants and clubs, they made more than 5 times that. Which totals to more than half Nigeria's annual GDP. More than 5 times Nigeria's annual budget.

Now, I was one of those who later on greeted Yar'Adua's rejection of hosting the tournament. But of course the Nigerians whom we are trying to protect from such lavish expenditure during such time of penury came begging and crying. FIFA came appealing and supporting pledging to bear a percentage of the projected liability incurable from welcoming our Coupe du Monde guests.

Well, here we are. Everyday comes with a new challenge. Mr Jack Warner has become FIFA Ambassador to Nigeria and general optimistician, yet nothing has changed. Then, there is our long diagnosed epidemic, more serious than Polio, Malaria and Meningitis put together; the Eleventh Hour Syndrom.

Shebi we want to host World Cup? MEND has decided we must use their blood to wash the ground as the opening ceremony.

This is one of the reasons why we have to really put this freedom of press in proper perspective. Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of press, they do not give anyone the right to lie, mislead, or deceive the populace.

If the SSS enters Sun Newspapers Headquarters to arrest this journalist, we'll all should that the press is being pursessed, yet the question we should ask is that if a doctor that cannot perform a proper operation and seriously does harm to patients is arrested, will we protest?

How many Nigerian senators can afford private jets? Even including all the stolen money, they can't.

I know that this legislator has done his homework well and properly calculated the cost, benefits, advantages, disadvantages, and has also come up with the perfect defence, but the truth is that he has opened the floodgates for all sorts of criminal elements to make plane buying the next fad which will lead us very soon to a situation requiring the Senate President to have an official Jet which probably he may buy for N780,000 when retiring.

@Becomerich

it is not good to mix gin. Especially with cannabis.

The Niger-Delta terrorist are to blame. If they were fighting against environmental pollution they'd have used a little of the booty to clean up a small area of their locality by now.

Tompoma, Asari, Gbomo-Gbomo and their string pullers like Nkyo Briggs, Edwin Clarke are the ones to blame.

The Niger-Delta terrorist are to blame. If they were fighting against environmental pollution they'd have used a little of the booty to clean up a small area of their locality by now.

Tompoma, Asari, Gbomo-Gbomo and their string pullers like Nkyo Briggs, Edwin Clarke are the ones to blame.

My fellow Nigerians, let's stop posting crap on Wikipedia.
People of a community want to be represented on the largest encyclopedia, they should make their entries according to the format with which others prior to them have worked.

People from Japan, Germany and Spain would talk about their environment, their history, sights to see, monuments, ancient rulers, foods and cultures, these people went there to be name-dropping: 'former governorship aspirant', 'first African to lift the world cup'. This is all rubbish.

Do you people even imagine how a Frenchman or a Brazilian would feel when he reads about the first African to lift the world cup coming from Anioma? Knowing full well that it was just some ceremonial lifting.

Please, we should be less petty on the internet and not trivialise our entire being in front of the whole world. Let's be more realist, mature, and above all, let the truth be told.

I hear of the good things Uduaghan is doing in Delta state and the good name he's trying to build for the state. Unfortunately Ibori has dug that state into a very deep and messy PR abyss and the fact that he is not only Ibori's godson, but blood relative will make his work very difficult.

One of the things which will destroy Nigeria is our total disrespect for time. Look to the Japanese and you will realise that most of their success was built on time and their only mortal failure was due to wrong timing.

If Ibori locked those senior staff out of the retreat, It's not because they have always been coming early but had a small hitch on that day. No. It had become a habitual thing. Now we should understand that these commissioners et al would after this experience, not tolerate late coming from their subordinates. Thus this good example will trickle down the chain of command.

I beg to differ with some on the issue of Uduaghan taking a cue from Fashola. They went to the same school and learnt the same rules, they only now applying what they got from UNIBEN to two differently able states of Nigeria. Shikena!!!

A Heavy Water Nuclear Reactor has been running in Ahmadu Bello University for over 8 years now and there has been no incident.

South Africa started building their nuclear power plants and at the same time developed nuclear weapons, but in the mid 1990's they disarmed and ended their nuclear weapons program yet still continue to sustain their electricity by nuclear technology. So it is clear that a country can produce nuclear power without being interested in nuclear weapons. The UN and IAEA agree that every once in a while, China that has partnered with South Africa on their nuclear power generation program will come in to evacuate all enriched uranium and weaponizeable nuclear materials to China. Now if China decides to sell that enriched nuclear material to Korea, Iran, Brazil or Egypt, it is their own headache. South Africa has done her due.

When president Umaru Musa Yar'Adua came into the Presidency in 2007, he had a fantasy of providing abundant electricity for Nigerians through the cheapest means available today; Nuclear technology. What he failed the understand were the diplomatic hurdles, the allegiances and the politics attached to Nuclear Power Generation. When he first mentioned his nuclear Nigeria plan at a world summit in 2007 the resulting outcry brought his mentality to home and now I see he's beginning to learn the ropes.

The areas which I feel will be best to locate nuclear power plants are basically those areas which have natural uranium ore: Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Plateau, Bauchi.
Then Kogi because It's always been a power generating state. Sokoto, Bornu, Ogun, Adamawa and Niger because they have large land area with a sparse population and they're close to the borders, being that Nigeria has always been a power exporting nation.

A final note is that the countries which are against developing nations acquiring nuclear power are those industrialized exporters. They know that with stable power, we'll be industrialized, importing less from them.

When that drug dealer was going to sell cocaine in chinese clubs, did he consult Yar'Adua? Please y'all better face reality. How can our president embark on a mission to matyr him as one of the Good People of our Great Nation?

By the way, all you asking for Nigeria to do things for Nigerians, have you asked yourselves what these Nigerians have done for Nigeria? People that carry their subsidized education from the Nigerian government to engage in building other countries are not bad enough, we have those that go out to rape, push drugs, rob and defraud, yet we want Captain Yar'Adua / Mr. Rule of Law to go make a fool the entire nation over such vagabonds.

Omolola1 is the only one who took time to go through that so called Seanjb's post and realise that he didn't write 'american'. Thank God for linguistics my homeboy typed in typical Naija english and spelt very British. American for where?

I tell you for the last time: CIA!!!

My word is final. CIA/MI6.

Operation Overlook is what this agent has embarked on. To show that Nigerians can even pass by the oddest looking, completely out of sorts spy, letting him do his job even in plein sight.

Naija, I hail thee. Afterall Nigeriens come to beg and we say nothing, Ghanaians come to sell kpof-kpof and we buy smiling, very soon a Japanese will come and become President and we'll be amused.

When we say it is Nigerians in general that are bad, some people will want to prove to us that it is our leaders that are bad, it is our government that is bad. Nigerians change; you are all bad people. CHANGE!!!

In a lot of countries around the world, it is a crime to slander the any public office, let alone the president unless of course you have proof of how factual your publication is.

In this case, Yar'Adua would not be the one suing, but rather a policy commissioner on behalf of the State. Obasanjo did something like this during his first tenure to one journalist who claimed the OBJ was making $1 million for every trip made abroad.

The burden of proof will now lie with these Leadership publishers and editors to present documentation showing Yar'Adua's ill health and treatment. However if the publishers can show any properly documented proof perhaps from the hospital which the president was treated, then they win and probably get compensated.

There is an underground Mafia working against Adams Oshiomhole and the leader of that Mafia is Oshiomhole himself. When Lucky Igbinedion is your Godfather, what good can come from you?

Adams Oshiomhole is clueless. The man is doing nothing about the kidnappings in Edo, he's on a mission to exchange all the PDP reps members with AC ones, he has embarked on copying everything done in Lagos without success: first It's tax, then he started destroying shops, he skipped the construction of roads part and jumped straight to 'tree planting exercise'. He wants me to plant trees in a tropical rain forest. You step out of your house in Edo state and what greets you is a tree yet this man feels we need more. In fact, it is one of his projects of priority.

The man will do nothing but sleep around with girls and smoke indian hemp.

Every Military in the world makes sure to deal with any case of mutiny. In the military, mutiny is worse than murder. It is the obedience of orders and conformity to rules that keeps the army together.

These protesting army officers have to be punished severely to set an example for others. It's just unfortunate.

I believe there are other ways they would have handled these issues beside the protest they held. I'm personally amazed that among almost a thousand soldiers, not a single one even imagined that this would be the result.

Even though I cannot suggest a punisment that might seem harsh yet better off for these soldiers, I believe their punishment will be commuted to a couple of years later in the future.

The issue of their entitlements is also quite serious too. If soldiers can risk spending the rest of their lives behind bars just to draw our attention to their plight, I think It's only right that others continue this fight. I really don't know where all those rights organizations and NGOs are anymore.

I wish them all the best and I know those officers that are sitting on those monies will not go free.

This news cannot be capitalized on by any terrorist or criminal group trying to demoralize the army because naturally, soldiers don't take lightly news of mutineers.

I'm not surprised that Nigerians can so easily shift their support from MEND to JTF just like a chameleon tossed from one environment to the other.

When mr. Jomo wrote a dear John the other day to the JTF, many of you were supporting militant action in the Niger-Delta. Today, same militants have written a letter to threaten our football and it UP JTF!

Why can't we see what is wrong and say it is wrong once and for all?

MEND is bad. Since 2007 I've been singing this thing, yet people said it was because they hadn't released Asari Dokubo, they said it was because they had Alamieseigha in custody that the militants were agitating.

So what about today? I guess It's because Goodluck Jonathan is being detained in Aso Rock, that's why they need to bunker and sell 500,000 barrels of crude oil. That is the same reason they have to kidnap locals, rape Youth Corpers, raid high end boutiques, and smoke unspeakable quantities of cannabis in order to fight their cult wars.

Terrorists are terrorists. The government cannot negotiate with monsieur Tompolo on behalf of his people because his people did not elect or choose him. He chose himself by virtue of the number of AK47s and M16s his cultists had. Without even having a structured state, they have become terrorists.

Of course, there's Edwin Clarke, Nkyo Briggs and Chris Ekiyor who have become spokespeople for the enemy propaganda.

Let them all be destroyed!

Just recently, these terrorist felt a blow from the left pinkie finger of the Nigerian Military and started to appeal to the hearts of Nigerian soldiers. But they have not seen anything yet. Go to Liberia and go to Sierra Leone and see what the Nigerian military did against a whole nation of militants under the topic  "Peacekeeping". Who is MEND?

Because they won't declare full scale war on us for the good of people like me who are peace-loving NigerDeltans, some morons will then say that MEND can stand the Nigerian Army.

Benue State will take MEND in all out war.