₦airaland Forum

KOMBE:
I don't think there is any problem with ventilation in this vehicle.

Absolutely nothing. The car used to load passengers for long distance trips and nobody has ever suffocated by sitting on the back row.

Erediauwa:
[color=#ff9999]Lol, my beautiful domi is really pissed at our leaders....

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This your font colour is not easy on the eyes at all

I wonder if these men don't see the level of destruction and devastation that goes on in the areas ridden with insurgency, not to talk of the gripping poverty in the area. Northern leaders are the most evil, selfish and insensitive of all Nigerian politicians combined.

The Day It Rained Private Jets In Maiduguri

By Reno Omokri

First published in my column, #TheAlternative, in Sunday ThisDay of January 5, 2020.

I just watched probably the saddest video I have ever seen in my life. It is a video on the website of The Cable and it shows the sheer number of private jets that landed in Maiduguri on December 28, 2019, bringing guests for the wedding ceremony of the son and daughter of Kyari Mele, the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

I have lived in America for decades. I schooled in the United Kingdom. I traveled to over 30 countries last year (2019), campaigning for #FreeLeahSharibu, yet I have never seen private jets converge in such profusion at one place and for one event in my life. The only possible exception is when I watched a clip on CNN of guests arriving for the World Economic Forum in Davos, but to a large extent, they arrived on commercial planes.


Sadly, on the same day that The Cable reported that 40 private jets rained out of the sky into Maiduguri, ferrying guests to the wedding fatiha of the children of the NNPC GMD, the British press was agog with photographs of British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and his girlfriend, Carrie Symonds, flying economy to the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia, to mark the New Year. To put this in perspective, note that Boris Johnson is the most successful politician or Earth right now. Yet he flew Economy. The NNPC has made a ₦547 billion loss in the last 3 years, yet its GMD’s guest flew into town with 40 private jets. And Nigeria wants to borrow $29.6 billion!

I urge my readers to note that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, which this fellow heads, has consistently turned a loss for the past five years. In June this year, The Punch reported that the NNPC has lost a total of ₦547 billion in the last three years alone.

I again urge my readers to note that this is happening at a time when the amount being spent on fuel subsidy hit ₦1.5 trillion in December, 2019, according to Daily Trust (meaning that we are now spending more than twice what we spent on the ‘fraudulent’ subsidy of the Jonathan era).

Are we a serous nation at all? We are about to take loans totalling $29.6 billion, meanwhile we have an official of state flexing in such a manner. You might say that it is his friends that are spending the money, and I would ask you if they would spend such monies for nothing without expectation that they would benefit from his high office?

His boss (General Muhammadu Buhari is the minister for petroleum), claims to be fighting corruption and profligacy in government. Please tell me what can be more profligate than this?

The other time when I complained of oil billionaires of the Northeast and especially of Borno state living large in the midst of the worst poverty on planet Earth, bar none, the Indimi family took umbrage and railed at me like banshees. My fellow Nigerians, have I not been vindicated?

This is the type of wastage in the midst of mind-boggling poverty that Mohammed Yusuf saw and which radicalized him and his followers.

According to The Cable, the jets at the Maiduguri airport on that day numbered no less than 40. It costs about $20,000 to charter a mid-sized jet in Nigeria, so we are looking at expenditure on aviation alone at $800,000, maybe more. The amount of money spent chartering private jets to that event could have fed 100,000 IDPs for a year. If we calculate the cost of feeding at the ₦30 that Agriculture and Rural Development Minister, Muhammad Sabo Nanono, claims can feed an adult in Buhari’s Nigeria, then the number increases to 300,000 IDPs for one year.

What type of country are we? Private jets landing besides public suffering? Wedding of the decade holding alongside suffering of the millennium. Naira spraying on the dancing couple when hundreds of IDPs are dying because their IDP camps have not been sprayed with insecticides? Boko Haram beheading 11 Christians while Nigeria’s high and mighty are chewing on chickens that have recently been beheaded!

Again, I ask, what type of country are we?

The sheer display of opulent wealth in the world’s headquarters for extreme poverty last weekend in Nigeria showed that there is no social justice in Nigeria under General Muhammadu Buhari. None at all.

Recently, the Governor of Borno, Professor Babagana Zulum, told us how Boko Haram still controls territory in his state. He cried for help in the interview. Sad to say that the number of planes that invaded his airspace on Saturday, December 28, 2019, is far more than the number of planes the Nigerian Airforce has fighting Boko Haram.

When you ask why there are not more planes operating sorties in the Northeast, you are told that money is tight. Those making such a claim should watch the video of private jets raining on Maiduguri on The Cable’s website. Many things are the problem. Money is not one of them.

Are we not the same country about to spend ₦37 billion to “renovate” a building the Obasanjo administration built from the scratch with just ₦7 billion? I can just imagine the angst in the minds of the millions of Borno IDPs as they saw those planes flying above them. What a recruitment propaganda for Boko Haram!

Just a week to this obscene wedding, at least four humanitarian workers were killed, and two others abducted by Boko Haram. In total, over 40 UN and NGO humanitarian aid workers have been killed by Boko Haram in around Maiduguri since the insurgency began. These were people who left the comforts of their safer and more prosperous countries and cities, to sacrifice themselves for a people whose own elite would rather party in grand style when their communities are collapsing.

Yet, as the world grieves for these recently killed four humanitarian workers, the owners of Nigeria could not care less about them. They amassed in Maiduguri to celebrate the wedding of the year. As I watched, I shed a tear for the recently married soldiers killed not too far from Maiduguri by Boko Haram. I feel ashamed that these are the type of rapacious elite that they are fighting for.

They remind me of Nathan Sharibu, Leah Sharibu’s father, who was busy guarding a big man in Yola at the very moment Boko Haram was abducting his daughter in Dapchi.

To those Nigerians who were expecting things to improve after General Buhari lied his way to power, I quote from George Orwell’s Animal Farm:

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

The elite of Borno state should note that as long as they continue to titillate the masses with such obnoxious display of wealth is as long as they will be unable to sleep. How can they sleep, when the masses cannot sleep? Not possible. Not possible at all.

On the same The Cable website, I read the testimony of a woman from Borno celebrating the fact that for the first time ever. her children ate an egg at school during the now discontinued school feeding programme-initiative of the Federal Government. An egg. An egg! Her children have never eaten an egg in their lives. And this is the same environment where it is now raining private jets! May God have mercy on Nigeria.

In the last four years, our national psyche has been so brutalized that we have lost all sense of what is appropriate. We have been called ‘criminals’ by our ruler, who has also called our youths lazy. What is more, we are all poorer than we were four years ago. Poorer in morals, poorer in charity, poorer in compassion and much poorer in monetary terms.

The sad truth is that no one in Nigeria is exempted from the mismanagement that General Buhari has foisted on this nation in the name of first change, and then next level. Absolutely no one.

Under former President Jonathan, Aliko Dangote was the 24th richest man on Earth with a net-worth of $25 billion. Please Google it. Under General Buhari, Dangote has just been named the world's 96th richest man with a net-worth of $14.8 billion. Scripture has a word for this.

"Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm."-Proverbs ‪13:20‬.

Two days after the clouds of Maiduguri were raining private jets, we celebrated the New Year. On the New Year's Day, India's leaders announced a plan to LAND on the MOON, while Nigeria's ruler, General Buhari, announced a plan to LAND Nigeria in DEBT. Nations RISE and FALL on LEADERSHIP. Nigeria’s leaders should not borrow more MONEY. Rather, he should borrow more WISDOM.

"When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bears rule, the people mourn"-Proverbs 29:2

Reno’s Nuggets

Dear women,

When you say 'men are scum', remember that you have dealt with a few men, and not all men. Therefore, BLAME the MAN or MEN, not the GENDER. Men are good! You have just not found the right one. And with that attitude, you NEVER will! And it is a LIE that GOOD MEN are RARE. They are not. They are plenty. It is BAD MEN that are RARE. Sadly, BAD MEN are the ones some few women are drawn to, because they don’t want to suffer with a GOOD MAN to build life from the scratch, so they fall victim to BAD MEN who lie to them!

#FreeLeahSharibu #RenosNuggets

Reno Omokri
https://www.facebook.com/1152008079/posts/10220234404107583

Did you meet him here on Nairaland?

Game on

It's easy to spot a woman that wants to settle down. They know how to turn men to putty in their hands. Marry some of them and watch their true character come out. I hope for Op's sake she will be the same sweet and generous lady after they tie the knot.

BigotMan:
Afrobeat as championed by Femi Kuti, Yinka davis, etc have songs to be more than 15min

I'm talking about recent music not old school

Viciheaka:
A true church does not register under the government of the world but is registered under kingdom of God .

Well, not in China.

It's not only Nigerian music, it's everywhere. It's hard to find a track that lasts longer than 3and half minutes these days

Goal city
1-0

Ehyah, he should have registered his church to avoid government wahala. The rules were pretty clear

Game on

Game on

Sorry about that

Do they have Nairaland profiles?

Was it not wolves that sent man utd packing from same competition last year?

Very upsetting story, what manner of human beings are these?

Your husband died July 2019, you're already pregnant for randy mechanic by January 2020. We need to reopen case file on what (or who) really killed her husband. Did she even take time to grief her late husband before jumping on to mechanic? Crazy ass woman. A man tells you the only way to cure your son is by sleeping with your underage daughter and you complied? Illiteracy is not an excuse here. This is pure undiluted stupidity

She has already been apologized to and asked to return to work. "Tolerant" Nigerian Christians are still ranting and cussing. Does shooting another religion make you a better adherent of your religion? Is this what Jesus preached?

pocohantas:
I thought they said men never leave the woman who BUILT with them?

Now being a submissive housewife is insignificant.

You have to love our men

Always talking from both sides of their mouths. They will say a career oriented woman is bad for the family, but those that sacrifice their careers to raise the kids and take care of the home are useless and worthless.

lawalosky:
One thing I dislike about this vehicle, is the window glass, the car maker fail wholefully in that aspect, travelling wit your family on this car, without a working AC is suicidal

You're talking about the last row windows? The front and backseat windows can be wound up and down, that's enough to circulate air round the entire car. Nothing suicidal about it

I'm seeing photos of a classroom and an ICT centre. Where is the hospital?

Go and sponsor it na

kingreign:
NaCl (sodium chloride aka common table salt) is hygroscopic, meaning it absorb moisture from its surrounding and from the atmosphere around it. The knowledge of this property of salt is what is used to 'seed cloud', cloud seeding is a process of spraying chemicals usually NaCl into the atmosphere to absorb atmospheric precipitation. This will induce changes in rainfall or snowfall pattern and time.

Previously, Silver iodide or potassium iodide etc were used for this purpose.

I've googled it. Should they not be preventing rainfall rather than induce it?

Rolls eyes
When are they going to write lengthy rules and regulations for husbands to abide by or is it only wives that must be guided by rules?

kkulaja:
You will not blame them
When they pray expecting from where they never sowed
Even the Pastors will tell them to hope from where they never sowed if the can sow the last money in their pocket as seed in church

They call it unmerited favour. They'll even use it as testimony in church. One nairalander even posted a while back how he spent his last card and was going hungry in school, then boom! He gets an alert of 10k from nowhere. He doesn't know the sender, rather than go to the bank to have it sorted out he said God has picked his call. Is it someone like that they will mistakenly send 950k to that will return the excess? Let's be honest with ourselves, a lot of Nigerians are thieves or thieves in the making.

What is cloud seeding? Try and reattach the photos properly

mendii:
thought the said he was threatened



Awon blogger blogger

That was his first story. Now that the mastermind of the operation has been caught, he has changed stories. Goes to show he was in on it from the start, his family was not under threat as he claimed

That thing can pain sha

cyrilamx:
Stick to Blaming the girl alone and stop dragging guys into it. It is undeniable that why most Nigerian ladies are lazy and poor, they still arrogantly look down on those guys who hussle legitimately. Most ladies will be reduced to nothing if guys do not foot their bills. I know what am saying cos I work im the aviation industry and see how ladies throw themselves on men just to maintain a false lifestyle. She should be taught a lesson. Greedy LovePeddler she is!

You're not the one to tell me what or what not to post. The girl did what majority of average Nigerians would do. We can make this a gender bashing issue, doesn't change the fact that a lot of Nigerians are greedy and fraudulently inclined.

safarigirl:
No education?

Lol.

Do not mistake a University degree for education Domi.nique, you should know more than this. All the people that have the 'education' what are they doing with it? What have they made of themselves?

Let Sophia keep being the bootycall, that is her own ambition.

Y'all must really hate this Chioma girl sha.

Even if education amounts to nothing, still manage and get a degree so your parents efforts won't be in vain.

How did Sophia make a booty call? Because she was pictured with her child's father? How many times in a year are they pictured together like that? Even if she gets married to someone else this year, she will still be in contact with her child's father. It's what every woman that wants to get into a relationship with a baby daddy needs to realize. The baby mama will always remain in the picture.

I'm hugely indifferent to Chioma. I may have been put off by her rude replies to critics on SM but I'm indifferent towards her on the most.

This is bad, why not just refund the excess. Someone that you've gained so much money from, you decided to dupe. If I were the doctor, I will make sure I press charges and see that she spends at least 6months in jail

An average Nigerian guy won't refund the money too. Majority of Nigerians see wrongly credited money as a blessing from God. Most of the guys insulting her will do same if mistakenly credited excess money.