₦airaland Forum

kettykin: And become suicide bombers and religious rioters, what else will they benefit from changing their faith

Lizzylobito: Lwkmd4h ooooo, serves him right, nobdy is above d law. #LOBATAN.

lacasa: For the sheer fact that some people r rooting for this same GEJ for 2015 is not only a wonder, but, goes to show clearly that this country and most of its citizens are created to fail!.

Dike Chimezie: And the winner is Goodluck Ebele Azikwe Godsent Jonathan.One good turn deserves another.Once a winner,always a winner.

What is the interest of the President in a misunderstanding between Amaechi and his former chief of staff?

Patience, the President’s wife, hates Amaechi. Thanks to your magazine for its recent cover story, ‘Her Imperial Majesty’. It was a fantastic research. I am not talking about the first lady, I hate the word Your Excellency. Which Excellency? Have you ever heard Barack Obama’s wife being addressed as Her Excellency? Or David Cameron’s? We forget that the place of first lady is completely unconstitutional and irrelevant. I am happy the National Assembly stopped the N4b allocation proposed by Ministry of the Federal Capital Territory for construction of a building for African First Ladies Mission.

Why does Patience, who I don’t think is patient, hate Amaechi?

She hates Amaechi because she wants an Okrika man to be governor after Amaechi. Unfortunately for Patience, she is not restrained at all. She can say anything and do anything without inhibition. That is why I congratulate TheNEWS on that in-depth research. Mrs. Jonathan once embarrassed Amaechi at a public function in Okrika. That was uncivilised. I think without further delay, Patience should be humble enough to publicly tender an unreserved apology for that attitude because being a president’s wife doesn’t give her the licence to be rude. Who will take what Patience did? That shows how impatient she is and that shows you how much Amaechi has absorbed. She humiliates him everytime. Jonathan caused it because he can’t say no to whatever his wife says. He is a very weak husband and he is a very weak president. Whatever she says must happen. How can anybody read that well researched cover story of your magazine and feel glorified. If I were Mrs. Jonathan, after reading TheNEWS magazine, I’d leave Abuja and go on sabbatical for a long time. How can she face the public now with such revelations of her unconstitutionality? Whenever she goes out with her husband, she stays in front and the husband stays behind her. Nigeria should not take this and the earlier we rose to say this nonsense must stop, the better.

Wives have a lot of influence on their husbands. Most of the things Jonathan is doing are very wrong. President Jonathan is so obstructive. If she is good, she should be able to talk to her husband not to do things that are not good and always remind him that they should leave good legacies behind. Abdulsalami Abubakar’s wife advised her husband well. She went to university and law school. But this is a lady that ended in high school.
But she has a degree.

As far as my record shows, I don’t attach any degree to her, but if I am wrong, please, Reuben Abati, publish it and let me be educated. As far as I know, she did some secretarial studies or something. There is no record that says that Mrs. Jonathan is a graduate. I am saying that the excesses of Mrs. Jonathan can’t be a positive platform for her husband to be a president. In fact, in any other country, if you are unable to restrain your wife’s excesses, you are impeached and you go back to your village and stay.

What is your take on the way Patience Jonathan took over everywhere in Port Harcourt recently?

I was there. I witnessed it. I arrived the same day. Fortunately, I left the airport before they closed the road, but I saw the crowd gathering. It was a very obscene show of arrogance of power. As soon as I checked into my hotel, the sirens came. Even Amaechi couldn’t come out of Government House. Where did she get the money to build that big house she just built? There was heavy security and the neighbours were complaining. When I was leaving the airport, I counted at least 20 security cars. One of the policemen said: ‘Professor, hurry up before the superhuman being comes.”

Even the policemen were not happy.

A few people have suggested that first ladies should be assigned constitutional roles…

It is sad. It is just like the agitation for assigning constitutional roles to traditional rulers. If constitutional roles are assigned to the traditional rulers, by the time the reality will dawn on us, it will take so long to reverse the disaster. It is better the way it is now. Any provision for traditional rulers is dangerous for Nigeria. The Oba I admire and adore in Yorubaland is Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III. He has given the royalty its due respect. He has not degraded and desecrated it. He is a king with magnetic brain. He is so brilliant. He is a good role model.

phemygee: There aint any corrupt govt officials without the help of the civil servants who work hand in hand with them. Let us check ourselves first before lavishing corruption on Government. The Civil Servants themselves are CORRUPT.They are the instruments used for corruption

Bebetter: [size=16pt]SHUTUP! my friend![/size] shey na jonathan cause poverty for north? abi na him dey fund the terrorists ni? he don give the amnesty, dem no gree, now soldiers are fighting and destroying them in the north... you dey here dey talk nonsense!

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday described the killing of over 40 students and a teacher of Government Secondary School in Mamudo village, in Yobe State, as wicked, horrific and barbaric.

Jonathan, who spoke through the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, said that his administration will not be undermined by any group or persons.

According to him, any person who target innocent children as a result of emotional dyfunction will certainly burn in hell.

He sympathized with the affected families as he assured that the war against terror is still very much on course.

Jonathan was optimistic that his administration will see the end of terror in the country.

Describing terrorists as cowards, he said: “the killing is barbaric, completely wicked. Anybody who will target innocent children for any kind of grief of emotional dyfunction will certainly go to hell.”

The attackers, who stormed the boarding school about 3 a.m. on Saturday, were said to have set fire on the hostels which burnedthe victims alive as they were asleep.

The students that managed to escape from the fire were reportedly shot by the attackers.

Some of the injured students in critical conditions are being treated in hospitals in the state for varying degrees of burns.

kaze4blues: I can understand your plight, infact I have also experience such.
But am sure that with time, things are gonna get fixed. Indeed, by this year's end, remarkable improvements will be experienced.

We need to state our problems to the authorities so they can know where to come in

Willywilly5: Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba APC don't like to hear Middle Belt

Chris Brown is being accused of living up to his bad-boy reputation.

E! News has learned that the singer has been accused of assaulting a woman at a San Diego nightclub on Saturday evening.

The Anaheim Police Department confirmed that they received a phone call from a woman alleging that she was pushed by the rapper during his performance at Heat Ultra Lounge at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday night.

She claimed that she was pushed and injured, but did not meet with the police in person regarding the incident.

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The investigation is currently ongoing, and police have not revealed the identity of the woman involved in the alleged incident.

E! News exclusively spoke with the operational manager at the nightclub who claimed to hear that Brown had "moved someone out of the way" after his set and that "perhaps the incident is being blown out of proportion."

Brown, apparently responding to reports of the incident, tweeted , "I didn't do anything." His tweet has since been deleted.

Earlier this month, the "Fine China" singer was in court to discuss discovery materials stemming from his 2009 assault case.

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The L.A. County District Attorney's Office had accused the Grammy winner of providing shoddy documentation concerning the 180 hours of community labor he supposedly completed as part of his sentence for assaulting Rihanna .

Per the current terms of his sentence, he is on probation until next summer. The judge set a preliminary hearing date for July 15 to determine whether they should move forward with a probation-violation charge.

No word yet on how the latest assault allegations may affect Brown's ongoing court case.

UPDATE: Heat management is standing by Brown, with Mike Joher of Royal Entertainment telling E! News in a statement that, based on information gathered from their security, mall security and other partygoers, "it is apparent that the alleged incident regarding Chris Brown is fales."

According to the club, Brown's accuser was trying to jump on the stage and "there was no way that he could have touched her, his section was roped off and he had heavy security surrounding him. Witnesses state that she was persistently trying to rush Chris" and was "eventually removed from the club."

Heat also alleges that the woman threw her shoes at club security as she was being escorted out and, while they thought about calling the cops, they allowed her to just leave.

Brown "was a complete gentleman and remained professional throughout the entire night," Joher concluded. "Neither I, nor any of the witnesses we spoke to, saw him push or touch anybody."

First Lady Patience Jonathan has slammed those describing her office as unconstitutionally, saying it cannot be separated from the Presidency.

The first lady, through her media aide, Ayo Oshinlu, was yesterday reacting to a newspaper editorial that criticised her for speaking from a podium with the nation’s official seal two years ago.

According to Mrs Jonathan, her office, just like American First Lady Michelle Obama’s, derives from the Presidency and has responsibilities to discharge, whether ceremonial or official, in order to “smoothen the operations of the president and the Presidency”.