₦airaland Forum

It started when and how Muhaamed Buhari joined Nigerian army.

postmann:
When i said "functional" the average reader could very easily know what i meant. I've worked in Bonny, Kolo creek, PH, Oporoma, etc and I know PH port like Warri port are having low activies.
There's nothing stopping the FG from dredging the port in PH and make it suitable for larger ships. Afterall, that was the port that served the British in eastern Nigeria.

Your oga at the top might have told you sweet garbage as to why ports in eastern nigeria dont function well -— even calabar port which is well suitable for export and import and you're spreading falsehood. Working in a shiping line gives you no authority on classified facts about the politics of Nigeria.

There have been pirate activities along lagos waterways.

It actually was during and after the civil war that all the ports and international airport in the east were discouraged from functioning in their original capacity for fear of weapon smuggling. Unfortunately the ghost of that policy still lingers several decades after.

And no government has reasoned beyond her anus to realize Nigeria is losing billions having just one major port.
The mother of all shame is that we even lose to Benin port.
The black man has proven to be his own worst enemy, never seeing beyond the scope of tribalism.

There are so many facts: even the steel plant that the British sited in the east because of the availability of iron in orji river axis. and coal in Enugu was moved to Aladja in delta state. Despite all the billions sunk into it , it failed to live.

These are few ills of the tribal military regimes that failed to diversify Nigeria's economy and locations.

Per the bolded, you could not be more correct. Besides tribalism, Nigeria has a problem deeply rooted in ill-educated masses.

jpphilips:
This nonsense you wrote can only make sense to an ignorant person like you, the time I spend here has opened my eyes to the reality that very few Nigerians understand how this country works.
The very few who denied themselves knowledge are still not ashamed to throw around buffoonery with pride, of what use is your Geography if it did not outline the limitations of PH port?

A m0r0n like Nnamdi Kanu is yet to tell his minions that Biafra is land locked, perhaps they are still hoping to dredge the River Niger beyond shallow waters, shouldn't it be more worrisome that a lunatic like that man is taken seriously because the country is packed with empty hollow heads roaming the four cardinal points of destitution in this country.

Why do you think that oil companies allow only offshore going vessels to berth at onne, while all the oil they extract from the Niger delta are routed to be sold through Bonny?
Has any of these ethnic lunatics ever seen a serious oil Tanker in any jetty in and around Abuloma or reclamation? why are they everywhere in Eket and Bonny but not PH?

If oil companies avoid it and importers avoid it as well, the least shred of common sense should tell you that something beyond ethnicity or Government inefficiency is amiss, some of you don't deserve a brain.
BTW those who understand the limitations and have real need do clear from there, the school drop outs can continue whining all over the internet.

Per the bolded, when did land locked or not land locked become a criterion for a country seeking independence? Sometimes Nigerians tend to overemphasize ignorance.

ba7man:
Apapa port is located in a lagoon while PH port is located in a sediment rich delta.

They do not share the same topography.

In respect to geological features, the ports are not favored with open sea. However Port Harcourt could be better than Apapa since the Lagoon is formed by sandbank or coral reef.

wytecat:
No Ibos among

The 5th class citizens Ibos are forever relegated to the far firewood kitchen in the backyard.

A country such as Nigeria does not elicit the desire to be a citizens of it. The list does not surprise a bit when coming from the zoo known as Nigeria

Only is a zoo such as Nigeria will the listed goons are regarded as powerful.

It is already too late for these goons. The Mallam Rochas Okorocha should have never been elected governor of Imo State talk less second term.

ujoatu:
I have seen in Okorocha a chip of the old block like Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, a detrabalised Nigeria. Like Zik, Okorocha was born in the north. He like Zik is a true Nigerian. We must learn from his move to unite Nigeria using the most important weapon, education. He is offering free education to all Nigerians.

Through this children of this college, a see a new Nigeria, the future of change and vanguard for a new Nigeria. I call on other wealthy Nigerians to bring back their wealth home to develop this nation. Okorocha, I am proud of you. Okorocha I will give you new names, Okorocha the Zik, Tafawa Balewa, Awolowo.
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Amb Maitama Sule, distinguished statesman

I guess you can see where such so-called detribalized endeavor left Ndigbo in today's Nigeria. You showed your true idiosyncrasy as a typical Nigerian when you listed Maitama Sule as a distinguished statesman. It will not come me as a surprise if you are oblivious to the certain historical facts about Nigeria or you are equally blinded by the idiotic detribalization.

Another major problem of Nigeria beside tribalism is most Nigerians are ill-educated. How on earth Nigerians foolishly reduced corruption to mean only embezzlement beats my imagination. Embezzlement is as a result having unqualified second fiddles to the position of important. Most of the jackasses in Nigerian government today CANNOT return to their profession if the government ceases to exist today.

It safe to say that the secession trend has been turned into a child’s play by this Yari.ba rants.

QuotaSystem:
He had Arewa roots. READ!

https://www.nairaland.com/2638203/first-black-pilot-history-nigeria

If only as a slave!!!

How could a dumbass who does not know his ancestral background lead Nigeria?

WETINUSABI:
And your so called book that you are now quoting had to be written by a white man who definitely wasn't in Nigeria at the time of war.

The most believable and authentic sources are usually first hand experiences and Victor Banjo's daughter released a book about such experiences from her dads letter to them during his travails. The book is titled "LETTERS TO MY WIFE".

I have a hard copy of the book here with me and it is the source of my thread. I wish there is a way for me to convert the hard copy into Ebook and upload everything here for you to see.

For once, I urge you to stay away from Nowa Omogui craps. He was neither in Nigeria nor Biafra when the civil war was fought. To the best of my knowledge, he was not even a member of Boy's Brigade of any of the warring countries.

WETINUSABI:
FULANI HERDSMEN

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File: Eze attacked along Enugu-Makurdi Expressway recently by Fulani herdsmen

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Umar…on the hospital bed after the attack by Fulani herdsmen

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File: Late Thadeus’s mother, Late Michael, Michael’s step father: They were killed by Fulani herdsmen

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Yari.ba people are indeed full of it. How low could anyone descend to make a cheap political point? These pictures came as a result of the Fulani rampage in Benue and Nasarawa States.

QuotaSystem:
The First Black Pilot In History Was From Arewa

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Ahmet Ali Çelikten
https://www.nairaland.com/2638203/first-black-pilot-history-nigeria

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2144589_thumbnail_jpeg5181aefe480172bcf9fdd60e07a679f6
Capt. Fatima Gwadabe
https://www.nairaland.com/2158816/fatima-abba-gwadabe-first-muslim

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2939888_screenshot20151009at12_08_18am_pngffa61e0376109a2323d046356fea95ae
https://www.naij.com/380740-ptdf-produces-first-female-pilot-from-katsina-state.html

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2939903_screenshot20151009at12_24_58am_jpeg3a3b600c350e7cce3e13ee5d14935731
Mubarak Bashir instructs American Student Pilots
https://www.nairaland.com/2549236/mubarak-bashir-nigerian-flight-instructor

I did not brand you as a calibrated dunce for nothing. Only a dumbass fool will define human beings with a hue. I guess you have first Green Pilot too. What a ninny. I thought only Yari.ba peeps have perfected the act of claiming other nationals as one of them when he or she makes a little achievement in human nature. When did a Turkish Ahmet Ali Çelikten of the Ottoman Empire become Arewa?

QuotaSystem:
I have no time to educate ignorance at this hour.

You are a calibrated dunce. A Nigerian pilot trained in the College of Aviation Zaria, Kaduna State cannot be allowed to handle baggage in the real world.

pneumaticos:
I would also.want to.know if freedom can be achieve by telling people to take up arms when there is no strategy to really win


Isn't it important or logical to work out a seperation with another tribe or group in a more diplomatic way

Are the yorubas that bad that the igbos cannot work anything out. With them

Can the igbos achieve this fit alone

I have family members going through the east and west every week who are actaully igbos telling me about the biafran thing..I ask them how it would be if biafra was to take up arms and their response was"o boy, I no know oh.so it got me thinking is this people serious

What type of idiotic question is this one? Uyo can be sustainable a country if it is given the opportunity, By the way, Biafra would have eaten Nigeria as a lunch if not for the British or at least fought to a negotiable standstill. Nobody can trust anybody who had no business joining the forces with a none neighbor to kill him or her. I can bet there are, at least, one country you do not existed and relatively smaller than Lagos in population.

alaoeri:
Put tribal sentiment aside, river Niger empty itself along PH shores & come along with a large deposit of sand particles, Abacha tried to dredge it up to Kogi while Yar'adua tried it up to Baro both are fruitless mission, take a trip to PH port & observe things by yourself, cargo ships won't be able to sail near PH's shores, as for development & rehabilitation directed towards Lagos IBB is still alive maybe you should direct your question to him.

Where is the tribal sentiment about economic infrastructure needed to help Nigerians? The only person bringing tribal sentiment to this discourse is you. Do you know how many times Apapa Wharf has been dredged? Apapa Wharf has the same topological features as PH wharf. There is no deep-sea cargo port in Nigeria except the proposes port at Ibaka or if Nigerian government will look at Opu Obu (Opopo). You seemed to be confused about dredging of a river with Abacha proposal. Even deep-sea ports are often subjected to dredging.

alaoeri:
Many are educated but few are learned, many have been blindfolded by ethno/tribal hate.
PH shoresshores ( continental shelf ) is steep & not deep unlike Lagos shores.
Lagos shores has natural harbour which prevent ships from wreckage.
PH port require regular dredging to enable ships to sail to the shores & construction of artificial harbours to prevent sea waves from wrecking ships.
These two factors are capital intensive.
The late Yar'dua tried to dredge the lower Niger but no meaningful result despite spending huge amount.

Per the bolded, this is arrant nonsense. The Port Harcourt wharf was adequately competing with Apapa wharf before the civil war. However after the civil war, Nigeria government redrew the importance of the wharfs even the Apapa was expanded to include Tin Can. One governor from the southern Nigeria once question if the Lagos was part of eastern region where the civil war was fought that all the redevelopment, reconstruction and rehabilitation are directed toward Lagos. The one of the major problems of Nigeria is display of disingeunity by its citizens.

QuotaSystem:
The only aviation college in Nigeria is in Zaria, and the Hausa nation has trained hundreds of pilots and engineers from all over Nigeria for over 30 years!

Please comment on Hausa and Fulani not all over Nigeria. I had rather be a shoemaker than a pilot or engineer trained in Nigeria college of aviation located in Zaria, Kaduna State.

Divided and Developed

StOla:
The great Igbo.

The lover of all, yet the enemy of all. Right?

Fishes dey discuss water transport, dog sef dey open mouth dey castigate all the fishes say na because of him dem no wan utilise port.

This dog wants all the fishes to evacuate the water for his own use.

A dog in a manger.

I had to be most deluded fellow if I remotely insinuate to have loved everybody in the zoo called Nigeria. There are countless ninnies in the godforsaken zoo called Nigeria I will not have in a dream as compatriots. I had rather face some of them in a battle field than in ballroom dance. Whether a fish ironically got drowned in the river or choked on water, how does it concern a dog with a cherished bone?

Each time these clowns have opportunity to make noise they seem to invoke the nonsensical phrases such as “true federalism”. Is there any phrase in political lexicon known as “false federalism”? These dumbass cowards should continue to do what they best thus loudmouthed hyperbolism. If these jokers are allowed to go any further, this nonsensical gathering will be turned into Kiriji II.

It is due to a determined conspiracy between Yari.ba, Hausa, Fulani, Kanuri and rest of them from northern region. The unfortunate appearance of Yari.ba and expendable minorities in the southern Nigeria has been a death wish to the region of southern Nigeria. The fact is that goofy and so-called Ijo and few other minorities in the southern Nigeria would prefer southern Nigeria to be an impenetrable jungle as long it does not benefit Igbo man. This is one of the reasons I vehemently call for disintegration of the cesspit called Nigeria and proclamation of Republic of Igbo land or even restructured Biafra.

donsteady:
This war is a war between Iran and Saudi. Russia is behind Iran and US behind Saudi. From look of things Iran has won this war already. Obama is boy where Putin is.

Per the bolded, you could not be more correct.

Russians are always shrewd when dabbling into diplomatic quagmire. They know that the only military power that matters in the region is Israel.

thomasthomas:
When I read certain comments from people here on nairaland who are from these regions, I begin to wonder whether these people cannot desire, seek and aspire to have a transparent government that guarantees good governance and accountability.

In politics, when other regions were fed up of the corrupt administration of Ex President Good luck Jonathan, people from these two regions were supporting him to continue. Rotimi Amaechi singled out himself from the corrupt administration, supported other regions to put an end to the nepotism and today he is being called a 'Betrayer'.

Sadly, these two regions has seen more money than any other region in Nigeria and yet it has little or nothing to show for it. The south south region for instance has two government institutions with budgets every year but nothing to show for it. NDDC and Ministry of Niger Delta and yet the region doesn't look different from other regions.

In Akwa Ibom for instance, there is no road connecting it with Abia and Cross River State, Amaechi said it in Calabar during the APC campaign.

In south East, most of their inter state and internal roads are bad, Aba for example has very bad roads same with other SE cities.

Now look at other regions in Nigeria, can these people continue crying of being marginalized or they are just so CORRUPT, stealing all the funds.

Akwa Ibom for the past eight years, received the highest allocation in the country, today the state is a broke, no being able to pay salary and now borrowing money from CBN together with having a huge debt profile already.

These people are really corrupt and their own problem so they should stop whining when other regions succeed and when progressives in the regions joins other progressives in the other less corrupt regions.

No, however the northerners from Nigeria and British have always play that card whenever a northern ascends to the position of Head of State in Nigeria as a means of staying in power. Remember that this particular Daura Dumbass called Muhammadu Buhari when he seized power through coup had to imprison Dr. Alex Ekwueme while he sent Shagari home to Sokoto. What idiotic logic was such a scenario when the President was sent home and VP to the prison? It is unfortunate that the idiotic southerners, due to the behavior of Yrai.ba and minority ethnic groups in southern Nigeria, tend to succumb to such crass political medley as not a damnable reality.

Aareonakakanfo:
True words! back to the topic, I think the only way we can get true federalism is through southern co-operation and that sounds impossible. The north is clearly not interested in it. They own this business you know

Afonja, you have been useless before now and it seems you will continue to maintain the course.

IROHINOodua:
By Tunde Akinsola, Ibadan
Some leaders today in Ibadan warned that the Yoruba will reconsider her membership of the Nigerian federation if the cultural and political marginalization continues unabated. The summit is not impressed by the slogan of renaissance renting the air, saying that the country has merely slid into the firm grip of another self-serving ethnic cabal intent on pinning the country down in her historic state of control my vested interests.
Presided over by former Governor of the Western Region, General Adeyinka Adebayo the summit warn that the Yoruba will no longer tolerate the sustenance of the country’s garrison structure which they claim undermine self actualization of the people of the South West.
Irohinodua correspondent reports that the summit said failure to restructure Nigeria using the 2014 confab report might force the Yoruba people to review her place in a political arrangement that cannot guarantee the protection of her citizens. Factional leaders of the Oodua Peoples Congress, (OPC), Dr Fredrick Faseun and Otunba Gani Adams were unanimous in saying that the time to “leave Nigeria” and assert the sovereignty of the Yoruba people is now.
The summit strongly condemned what it described as the “invasion and killing of people in Yoruba territories” by the Fulani herdsmen. The summit held in the House of Chiefs Section of the Parliament Building of the Oyo State Secretariat with the theme “National Insecurity and the Menace of Fulani Herdsmen in Yorubaland.” The participants also decried the continued oppression of the Yoruba in their homeland by armed Fulani herdsmen.
The summit cite incessant cases of rape, destruction of economic plants that form the bedrock of the livelihood of locals, the armed violence unleashed by the nomads coupled with the consequent cultural disequilibrium the displacement of people from crisis-ridden Northern Nigeria have brought to communities in Yorubaland adding that subsequent governments in Nigeria have come into power waving slogans that end up leaving the country worse than they met it.
They demanded an immediate end to lawless nomadic activities in the South West warning that any community who cannot establish ranches for their flock should retreat from Yoruba territories. “The Yoruba people are no longer ready to tolerate mindless encroachment on their means of livelihood by any ungrateful tenants”, the gathering stated as part of its resolutions. The summit appear to be a mixture of Yoruba nationalists who have remained steadfast for ages and a sizeable flavour of people who worked for the ousted former President Goodluck Jonathan, leaving the possible impression that the summit has an iota of the usual sharp ideological and sometimes raucous divisions that have characterized Yoruba internal politics since independence.
Some observers think the Yoruba supporters of the ousted President Jonathan are anxious to seek relevance in a new environment that appears to have pushed them into the back bench of anomie. But the Afenifere spokesperson, Mr Yinka Odumakin said his group will always defend the objective interests of the Yoruba people. An official of the Oodua Liberation Movement, (OLM) Mr Popoola Ajayi said though the supporters of the ousted President Jonathan were prominent at the summit, the “reality is that many Yoruba people are disillusioned about the state of affairs in Nigeria and patience is running out.” He said after working for the emergence of President Mohammadu Buhari, the Yoruba people are “desperate to know if the alignment with the Fulani would lead to the restructuring of Nigeria and create political and economic freedom for the Yoruba” adding that the recent appointments by the President undermines the regime’s integrity.
He said “we the Yoruba people want to control our economy, security and natural resources including the sea ports.”
At the event were prominent Yoruba sons and daughters from the academia, politics and the Diaspora. The sponsors of the summit were Yoruba Council of Elders, (YCE), Oodua Foundation, Afenifere and the Yoruba Unity Forum, (YUF). Some of the participants included the Oyo State Deputy Governor, Otunba Moses Alake Adeyemo, who represented the State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi; Sola Ebiseni, who represented the Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, Pa Olanihun Ajayi, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, Pa Supo Sonibare, Prof Banji Akintoye, Prof Toun Ogunseye, the first woman Professor in Nigeria. Others were Dr Fredrick Faseun, Otunba Gani Adams, Dr Kunle Olajide, Chief Shuaib Oyedokun and the former Military governor of Lagos State, Brig-Gen Raji Rasaki among many others. The Afenifere Renewal Group, (ARG) and many other Pan-Yoruba groups were however absent at the summit.

The agitation for the Republic of Igbo land or even reconfigured Biafra will have nothing to do with rants of these perennial turncoats.

Most Nigerians are suckers. Muhammadu Buhari is a walking corruption. The so-called ministerial appointment did not come as a surprise to those who knew him.

Has a Briton ever seen such amount of money talk less stealing it?

hinwazaka:
In this administration the past is the past, except otherwise. Let's judge them based on their performance in the next four years. Everyone of the 21 nominees has erred either consciously or unconsciously. They are all dirty, everyone of them, but the fact is we can't affect or influence their nomination. So we just have to watch, wait and see what they will bring to the table in this 4 years.

Those who failed to adhere to warnings of historical facts are bound to commit the same blunder over and over again.