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Whoube99:
Says who
If a retired head of state is entitle to just two security detail, who is brutai to have 9 security detail Is brutai the first COAS How many did the late Alex Baddeh had as a former COAS when he retired

Rocktation:
Wow wow..so you have been around. Good to know. There are still areas where juvenile activity cannot occur though, but yeah, I feel you. Compliments of the season and yes, it's good to hear from another oldbie...

Rocktation:
Wow wow..so you have been around. Good to know. There are still areas where juvenile activity cannot occur though, but yeah, I feel you. Compliments of the season and yes, it's good to hear from another oldbie...

CrazyMan:
My brother when abacha was talking about vision 2020 most people didn't understand. We that survived to see it will surely have bedtime stories to tell our kids.

I'm glad you're good... stay safe

Rocktation:
The latest Big Boy in townnn, congrats and thank God for your life. Have you arrived at the villa, safely? Cos I know that your people don't joke with travelling to the villa for Christmas. Unless of cos, you never left in the first place, which would be great in this era of skyrocketed price of fuel, rates of accidents and what not. I'm also in asaba presently (which is not my villa anyways, but closer to home) and if na say one thing no do another, I for vex, cook that rice for you on Christmas day.

Sorry about loved ones who left for a better place and thank God again for your achievements. Got an early Christmas gift myself, in the form of an answered prayer; a very dear one won the ticket for a local government chairmanship position! Yay! The gbedu has refused to end.....

Right now, I'm really just wondering why Mynd would not celebrate Christmas.. Is it a domination thingy or the context of situation he found himself? Perhaps, you'd asked him for lunch as you did me and that was his own bolting strategy...

Dont8 true true, where art thou? You guys had my time wella before and indeed, spiced this quiet place up. Come back and do it again... in the spirit of the season and camaraderie of cos..

Idk whether Ayobase's wife traded off her yes to marriage for his phone, as he became very anti-nairaland immediately he got married and started having kids...

Back to you again Crazy, thank you for always being there, nairalandly. For always following, liking, sharing whatever you read from me...

You must indeed be a loyal somebody, because you'd said you'd always stop by, years ago...and yeah, here you really still are. Continue being good if you really are and strive to be...just incase you are not. If for nothing, to catch an equally correc
t woman to marry, if that is a priority, because I believe that the vibes you exude, attract a group that would be ready to pitch in and amplify them. I don't care if anybody else thinks differently.

I wish you, myself and all good people better experiences in the coming year and beyond.

CrazyMan:
Wao so this controversial year is finally coming to an end..I'll say 2020 was something else. all in all I give God the glory for my life.

I had an accident earlier in the year, but I'm completely strong Hale and hearty.

Lost a good number of relatives and friends this year.

I also achieved some good things this year tho... got a car via Nairaland.

My Thanksgiving is that none of us is Missing.

Rocktation: How have you been...its been ages. I'd say you owe me Christmas lunch. It's my right as a bachelor.

Mynd44: you once told me you don't celebrate Christmas. At least I'll get to eat your ration. How are you doing?

Dont8: you just went MIA. Hope you're good.

Ayobase: Not a word from you either.. I
.hope You're good.

Mcreloaded:
Thanks for letting me know.
Much appreciated, unlike other ITK who will want to insult you and at the end of the day they won't correct you but just point out your k leg.
Lol

Mcreloaded:
Air force and Navy personnel get your time na then you go know say soldier na your friend.

For your information Army, Navy and Air force undergo the same training but soldier dey learn for where Air force and Navy dey in terms of action.

When it set, nobody go tell you say make you pick race other wise wetin happen for 1964 go repeat it self

Femi Fani-Kayode makes conceit solemn. He is the sui generis of narcissism. His arrogance dovetails with his foul temper and cutting tongue. There is no shade of modesty, temperance and grace in the son of Remilekun Fani-Kayode (Fani Power). The mealy-mouthed politician takes the “H” in hubris. He is the undisputed crown prince of double-speak.

I watched the video of where Fani-Kayode gave a dressing-down to a journalist who asked him an innocuous question which “the Almighty” found irritating and pesky, “Who is bankrolling your tour?” That was it! Femi emptied the content of his pugnacious buccal cavity on the journalist. He called him stupid and expended minutes chopping the reporter to insignificant bits.

Femi said he had a ‘’short fuse’’ and asked the reporter to size him up because – ‘’…I am a former minister, lawyer…. Who do you think you are talking to?’’

Femi’s diatribe: “Do you know who you are talking to? What type of insulting question is that? Which bankroll, to do what? Who can give me money for anything? Who do you think you are talking to? Go and report yourself to your publisher. I could see from your face before you got here, how stupid you are. Don’t ever talk to me like that. Who do you think you’re talking to? Bankroll who? You think I am one of those ones you… from who, when, how? You have a small mind, very small mind.”

“Who is bankrolling your tour?’’ The non-toxic question that bled Femi’s poison. Femi is not a disguisable character for integrity. He is notorious in political circles as a mercenary who can serve anyone and any purpose as long as his belly gets filled. His former boss, Olusegun Obasanjo, whom he turned against after Goodluck Jonathan picked him up to wait at the table, put a stamp of affirmation on Femi’s devious constitution.

Obasanjo once said: “Femi is my boy. If you give him food, he will sing for you?’’

Femi was vicious on former president Jonathan – not until he was appointed to be the spokesman of the re-election campaign of the former president. But he spoke Jonathan to defeat in 2015.

Recently, Femi embarked on a PR tour of PDP states. He travelled to Zamfara where the governor treated him to the niceties of princes. The former minister who is a known adversary of the north – as his writings and public statements show – geared into duplicity afterwards untamed by his pursuit of pleasures.

He once put the trouble with Nigeria on the pouch of the Igbo. In his article of August 2013, ‘’The bitter truth about the Igbo’’, Femi wrote of his intimate congress with the wife of the late Odumegwu Ojukwu — an extraneous piece of information that he divulged to spite the Igbo.

He did not camouflage his bigotry and hate for the Igbo. But he started cantillating different when the Buhari administration came to power. He needed alliances from the south-east to confront the ‘’northern government’’ which pulled him to court on allegations of corruption. He became an abetting voice, albeit hypocritical, against the perceived grievances of the region. Not that he really cared about Ndi Igbo, but in President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi and a few Igbo politicians displaced from the dining table, found a common enemy.

Femi lives only for himself. He is vacant of character and principles. He stands for nothing and falls for everything as long as he gets fed. It is in this context that the question (who is bankrolling your tour?) of the journalist to Femi, should be situated. Why was he so incensed by the question? He could have simply torpedoed whatever the insinuations on the tour are with an intelligent and polite answer. Perhaps, he felt he was being ratted out? His outburst busts his pretensions.

Femi is critical of anyone who does not favour him, and his approach to opposition is both savage and irrational. He once called Buhari “an evil tyrant”. But it is clear; the politician would have been a more ruthless tyrant if was sitting on the throne. He pleasures himself insulting other people, but he brooks no opposition. He can throw blows, but cannot take them. That is the making of an aboriginal tyrant.

However, Nigerian journalists must redeem themselves from the curse of “brown envelopes”. Journalism is a noble profession, deserving of respect. Some journalists act like peasants before politicians for crumbs. So, naturally, they cannot stand up to them. But what is journalism when journalists are afraid of asking critical questions? We have to redeem ourselves. The profession is fast losing dignity and appeal.

Fredrick Nwabufo is a writer and journalist

Twitter: @FredrickNwabufo

TheGooodMan:
He released the anger of being dismissed in the woman.

Samfloxin:
It's good to be good neighbors...Sha, I no fit eat meat sacrificed to idol

Leonbonapart:
say that to the antichrist government. Hypocrisy kee una

CapitalHYC:
Good ... Oshoala is looking more beautiful. Apart from being a good footballer, she needs some kind of beauty so as to be marketable to model for companies

martineverest:
the boy's confidence tho.... at a time,u didn't know when tears dropped from my eyes while watching the video

gambia:
He brought it upon himself.

Charlex23:
So sad he landed himself into this. be careful what u say online

apache22b:
The incompetence of this government make me ecstatically delighted and disproportionately flabbergasted with enormous gratification and appreciation for the dispensation of such a tendering and mesmerizing information in which the prestidigitation of the concurrent and subsequent matter is thoroughly demonstrated through the innuances alluding to literal and metaphorical context. It is highly imperative to note that, such is the significance of the aforementioned, distortion in any shape or form will result in catastrophic ramifications to which will be the outcome of epic proportions. I thank you for your unequivocal.

hedonistic:
Noooooooooo!

Dan Foster
Keke and D1
Tope Brown
Paula Anumudu
Olisa...
(add yours)

This generation of OAPs (late 90s to early 2000s) moulded me in a way I can't exactly describe, but that I'm grateful for.

God bless them, dead or alive.

MakindeHassan:
Just wish him a happy birthday and move on. He is as brave as his father. Nigerians just don't ask intelligent questions.

How is he being nominated for Grammy when you don't hear his music on the radio and TV stations like sound city? Because his music has been banned from being aired in Nigeria but is being played abroad. The only way to hear his songs in Nigeria is to search for it.

So do a quick search and listen to his brave lyrics. Try "sorry sorry" and you will listen to his criticism of the government like his father.

masseratti:
please read your history alot of Obas has been dethroned in Yo
ruba land just like emir Sanusi, by the government, even Aláàfin.

Nn3muka:
Over 10yrs of marriage and they still go on dates
some are just 5yrs in marriage and they nolonger eat from same plate sef....

lovely couple

Without doubt, one of the common themes in Nollywood is money rituals. While such stories could be entertaining, especially with the mystical manipulations embedded in them, Minister of Works and Housing and former governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, during the week asked moviemakers to stop telling such stories, because, according to him, money ritual is a myth.

Fashola, who was the guest speaker at the fourth annual public lecture/symposium organised by the United Action for Change, themed, ‘Security of citizens as a social contract’, said that belief system, reinforced through Nollywood movies, could be fuelling kidnapping, given the number of persons the police have arrested with human skull and other body parts, with the motive of money ritual.

But the former governor, who titled his lecture, ‘Insecurity: Taking actions against organised crime’, however, said it was high time moviemakers and policymakers changed the narrative, to save innocent lives from being wasted.

Fashola said, “Some people believe that if you get a man’s head or a woman’s body parts, they could be turned into money. It’s not true! And when you ask people who believe in it if they have seen it happen before, they tell you someone said they had seen it.

“However, it has become a reinforced belief through entertainment, social media and Nollywood. How can human head bring money? Money is paper invented by man, not God. They put the paper in a machine to print what we call money and that is the only place money comes from.

“But the challenge is the belief system. Just think about how many people have been missing – through kidnapping – because some people believe that it exists. The police could tell us the number of people they have apprehended with human parts, such as skulls. This belief system must go.

“Therefore, all of us, including those who make the films, must reverse the story and start selling a new story that money is printed in a machine and not through any other way like money rituals.”

He also faulted the fears that engulfed the populace last year when there were reports that cyber fraudsters were stealing women’s briefs to make money.

Fashola said, “It is not true, or how does that happen? What is the connection between paper (money) and cotton (pants) or has anybody seen cotton money before? Those of us who have influence and authority must take positions to see to the reversal of this kind of beliefs.”

internationalman:
Slim yanshless beautiful girl..

Beauty is beyond big yansh.. I for one don't get turned on by big yansh..

The bigger the yansh the smaller the brain capacity...

As for Ronaldo, if not for Messi he would have gone the way of Solomon Okonkwo

And as for Messi if not for Ronaldo he would have gone the way of Chinedu Ogbuke...

So the first thing you both should do every morning after giving God praise is Thank each other for compelling and propelling each other to the greatest height..


Happy birthday CR7 the Legend but even me and your fans(though they don't like to admit it) know that LM10 is the best to ever play the game...

itsme01:



Arabic is a Language and not a religion, Many christians speak Arabic as their only language, The Bible also as an Arabic version so i see no reason why christians should opose arabic writtens on currency of a country that is bordered with Northern African Arab, and conduct millions worth of trade with them

As it stands, most of the Rams , Camel , Donkeys and some breed of Goats we eat and use in Nigeria comes from Chad, Niger, Mali and even Senegal, and most of our grains like millet, white corn and wheat are also sold back to them

Obasanjo a Christian was the President that designed and minted N200 , N500 and N1000 and he included the arabic insription and translation of the denomination. Below is a picture of Bible written in Arabic, am sure if our Hypocrite Brothers see this now they would burn it

SameerAhmad:
But you find it easy to complain about other people's paintings