₦airaland Forum

^^^ you mean you want me to tamper with the evidence? Just be patient and read it, if you're in Naija it's already 2am, where you dey hurry to ?

A serving governor in one of the northern states is under investigation over alleged sponsorship of the Islamic sect,Boko Haram. Security agencies have already raised a panel to quiz him on the allegation.

But he is not the only one under such scrutiny.Security operatives are on the trail of several other politicians from the North to come and say what they have in common with the sect.

Several of the suspects have reportedly fled to Niger Republic and Chad,according to sources in Abuja yesterday.

Following fears of jailbreak and invasion, security was beefed up yesterday around the 17 Boko Haram members in detention in Abuja.They were arrested in Damaturu,Yobe State, and flown to the Federal Capital.

Investigation by our correspondent revealed that security reports have indicted the governor for having a 'deep' relationship with Boko Haram.

Although the governor has immunity, it was gathered that security agencies want to "interact" with him and lay the facts bare before him.

The governor, according to sources,has been evasive by hiding under one official engagement or the other.

A reliable source said: "A serving northern governor has been indicted by security reports as having intimate connection with Boko Haram. Security agencies have been directed to interact with him with the facts at their disposal.

"The essence of the coming interaction is to unmask those sponsoring the sect. The said governor is already aware and he has been moving here and there, including some trips to Niger Republic and Chad .

"As a result of the immunity he enjoys, he cannot be directly arrested. But all the details are being assembled and a security committee has been constituted to confront him with such details.

"Once the evidence is confirmed as incontrovertible, further steps can then be taken to ensure prosecution in line with treason and such charges."

Responding to a question, the source added: "The government has decided to bring sanity to this whole issue of insecurity. Some security agencies which have been on the trail of those concerned in recent times have reports indicting a number of persons, including government officials."

As at press time however, it was also learnt that the inter-agency security committee might also interrogate some northern politicians, leaders and government officials over alleged romance with Boko Haram.

The source said: "A list of government officials and those to be quizzed from the North has been compiled by security agencies. There are intelligence reports that some of them are planning to flee abroad.

"But there is no hiding place for them. Security agencies have been placed on the alert in all airports and seaports,” a sources said.

The source added: "At the appropriate time, the government may also ask the security agencies to release the list to the public.

"Some of the suspects are said to be on the run to Niger Republic and Chad too."

But following fears of jailbreak and invasion, security was beefed up yesterday around the 17 Boko Haram members flown from Damaturu to Abuja .

Apart from the beef up, some of the detained members have also been relocated to other detention facilities to "avoid security breach."

Another source said: "By strengthening security where Boko Haram members are detained, we are only being cautious."


www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/33213-boko-haram-security-agencies-raise-panel-to-probe-governor-northern-politicians.html

[quote author=-Wilywily link=topic=845200.msg9956329#msg9956329 date=1326462940]Fraudulent Yorubas and their Dirty Stinking partner Hausa/Fulanis ruined our refineries.[/quote][quote author=onye_okwu link=topic=845200.msg9956496#msg9956496 date=1326464596]Insert Quote
Fraudulent Yorubas and their Dirty Stinking partner Hausa/Fulanis ruined our refineries.

u de feel you bro [/quote]If that's the dimension you guys want yo take this thing to then you best forget it. I'm actually hoping for someone with insight about the topic to contribute and not the rubbish you're doing.

Please no one should resort to the tactics above me, just interested in getting the details on how it was done.

I just heard a lawyer from the South East make this statement on channels TV. Biafara was able to refine it's own fuel 45 years ago, while at the same time fighting a difficult war. Then how is it possible that a generation later the country still cannot achieve that same feat at peace time? Or was juju used in converting crude oil to petrol back then?

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=845147.msg9956075#msg9956075 date=1326460506]I also question this premise that the arguments for the removal of fuel subsidy are exactly the same as that of the removal of electricity tariff.

Whether you subsidize oil or not, people will be able to get oil at market prices, right? Worst case I buy it from some black market dealers somewhere at slightly more than market rates. Or if not PMS, there are affordable substitutes like diesel. And the damage to the Nigerian economy is basically capped at whatever the Nigerian government spends per year on subsidy. $7-8 billion.

However, for the electricity market? Well, the end result of the current tarriff regime is no affordable electricity in Nigeria, period. You get light for 4 hours a day, and for the other 20 hours a day you are generating electricity from a generator. So the end result is that you pay more for electricity overall in Nigeria than in places where it is deregulated (you probably pay 2X or 3X of what some guy in the western world pays.)

There is no black market dealer I can get electricity from at a reasonable price.

So my business that depends on PMS will survive whether there is a subsidy or not. But if my business depends on electricity, I am absolutely screwed. . . my factory in Nigeria can never compete against one based in Brazil, the US, China, etc.

The overall impact of lack of electricity on the economy is larger than the impact of the fuel subsidy.

I do agree that if one supports the removal of the electricity tariff regime, you should also logically support the removal of the fuel subsidy. But the impact of the two is not the same, and the way they damage the economy isn't the same.[/quote]Let us track back to the subject, El rufai the person,is the subject of this argument. If anything i believe he is one of the most brilliant minds we have in this country. The problem is that he has chosen to join the opposition on an issue I know he would fully have championed as a cabinet member. I remember how doggedly he stuck to the abuja " master plan" inspite of how unpopular it was. He destroyed property worth billions during his time as FCT minister.

It would interest you to know that Nigeria at the moment is in a far better position to subsidize or maintain low power rates than low petrol prices. Why? Power is, and has always been 100% produced and distributed in the country, unlike the dirty petroleum sector with various shady deals. The entire gamut of electricity production and distribution is almost entirely under the control of Nigeria today. Which of the commodities do you think would more efficiently subsidized?

He's a hypocrite because calling for a 400% jump in the price of electricity to improve efficiency is not in any different from calling for 150% increase in petrol prices. Infact it's even worse if you consider the scale of it.

@ekt bear you're missing the point. The OP is trying to highlight the hypocrisy of Nigerian politicians as exemplified by el slime rufai. The guy is an opportunist chameleon of the highest order, just like most politicians in this country. I'm beginning to admire Jonathan's bare directness though i'm suffering as well.

Soyinka disowns internet
messages
By OLA AGBAJE
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has
disowned a news item being circulated on
the internet purportedly emanated from
him, describing it as complete concoction.
According to a statement titled: “A
Dangerous Game of Impersonation,”
personally signed by the literary icon, hr
said the message was the handiwork of
some unscrupulous individuals who were
trying to take advantage of the situation in
the country to circulateº through
electronics comments he described as
“most distasteful, uncouth and
unprincipled.”
Specifically, he pointed out that he does
not circulate statements meant for the
public through any of the medium being
used to circulate the offensive messages as
he never subscribed to any of them.
“I wish to inform the public that I do not
Tweet, Blog, Facebook etc. etc. My public
statements are signed and/or go through
authorized channels that the media
recognize and can authenticate where in
doubt. Any electronic message that
purports to emanate from me for general
circulation through Mobile phones or
Internet should be taken as a complete
concoction, in most cases by deranged
minds with their private and sick agenda.
“I must remind the public that these are
not normal times, and that extreme
caution and personal responsibility are
needed. It is no time to be taken in by
spurious propaganda by cowards who
cannot speak in their own voices or
acknowledge the names given to them at
birth or even acquired during their
nefarious careers” , he said.
While warning on the danger such
unscrupulous activities posed to the society
at large, he called on the security agencies
to be alert to their responsibility and
ensure the perpetrators are brought to
book any time they are called upon to
intervene in the matter.
“Even more than the nauseating one feels
by being subjected to such identity
embezzlement is the danger it poses
generally, since it is certain that there are
others who are similarly afflicted. One
hopes therefore that the Security services ,
when called upon to assist in tracking
down these felons, will recognise this goes
beyond individual clamour and will act
promptly, not only in unmasking, but in
prosecuting them as befit criminal minds
with the capacity for incalculable damage
to an already fragile social fabric,” he
stressed.

odili.net/news/source/2012/jan/12/511.html

AGI) Geneva - United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay,
sustains that the militia belonging to the Boko
Haram ultra- islamic sect who for months now
have been causing bloodshed in the north of
Nigeria are chargeable of crimes against
humanity. A report of the South African
Magistrate of Indian origin quotes that "If they
are found to be responsible of the extensive or
systematic attacks against civilians, among
which those perpetuated on the ground of
religious or ethnic reasons, the members of
Boko Haram could be accused of crimes against
humanity".This is also addressed to "other
groups or entities". He also warned that "Any
kind of violent act must not be left unpunished,
even those that have been perpetuated as
retaliation against previous attacks". The
massacres of the Islamic group that have
especially targeted the Christian minorities in the
north, have unleashed retaliations in the south
where Christian extremists have attacked
Muslims. There is reason to fear that the
violence might lead to an open sectarian
conflict. Pillay has pressed the Abuja
government to take a stand against the violence.
He then asked the leaders of the various
communities "not to fall into the trap of the
appeals of retaliation or of their justifications",
and to combine their efforts to "unambiguously
condemn" the attacks. He "encourages"
followers to denounce and get "those who are
involved in homicides and violent acts" arrested.
There have been dozens of deaths in the
federate States only in the last couple of days
and thousands of people evacuated. (AGI) . .

www.agi.it/english-version/world/elenco-notizie/201201121345-pol-ren1046-nigeria_onu_boko_haram_crimes_against_humanity

probably the army or police, i hope.

Wow!!! This is serious.

coogar:
dayokanu, you are a disgrace to all german-speaking nazis with this monumental goof of yours.
in actual fact, dipo+ is very very right with the spelling "mueller".

Ö = oe
ü = ue

there's an umlaut on the o and the u in the names of ozil and muller which makes them sound like oezil/mueller
if you are not gonna place the umlaut on the names then oezil and mueller is the correct spelling, otherwise its [b]Ö[/b]zil or M[b]ü[/b]ller

it's funny the way you shout "Torrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" Torrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" on match threads and you don't know about the german language.
useless lout!

dk see how your fellow evil twin don expose you, thank goodness i didn't have to engage your German argument.

@flipside, i feel your pain my brother. Are you a Mshelia or a Gadzama ? . But seriously i know many like you, descendants of parents belonging to different faiths. Deep in your heart you wish things could go back to the way they were in the 80s when every body got along.

But you fail to acknowledge that religious inter marriages were also prominent with the rest of the country back then and not just the middlebelt. That's why people like Atiku , IBB and numerous others ended up with Christian wives, especially from the south east and south west region. I wonder why you think that the change in attitude is Middlebeltan in nature and not ' Nigerian'; which it actually is.

I dare say even the world we live in has changed. I remember when it was cool for Arab royalty to marry non Islamic caucasian women, i doubt if that's the case now. So, in essence, the world is a different place now, not just Nigeria and not just the middlebelt.

Any affinity that existed between middlebelt tribes and the core north back then has fast faded away leaving the reality of what we live in today. As things stand today, many persons from the middlebelt would rather work and live among people of similar background as a result of past experiences.

You ask whether if a middle belter who's Muslim would be spared if he finds himself in the midst of Christian middle belters in the event of a religious riot; my answer to that is that he stands a better chance of survival than if he were in the midst of core northern Muslims. I'd also like to add that riots that result in the killing of core northerners in the middle belt are almost always reactionary. They are caused by pogroms carried out by core northern thugs on innocent people.

iykak47:
u see your life? Your brother ke, but you have been supporting the  violent protest, running your mouth like an old  typewriter.
Our elders say a man who invoke storm to his kinsmen,can never prevent his own  house from destruction.
please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ko, please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ni. .

Now that's funny!

Which goals has Henry ever scored in the world
cup all his career?

your daftness is legendary, Google Henry and 1998 world cup to kick start that comatose donkey brain of yours, we`re.

He scored 3 goals in 98 world cup to help France win and same tally two years later in Euros. FYI he also won golden boot in confederations cup around 2003. Hope your small brain knows he's record goal scorer for both present club and country ? When will any of your players achieve the same feat A?

@karfe, the traditional ruler of the Zuru people is known as Gomo. The present king, Sani Sami or something is Muslim and started brandishing the title of Emir so as to impress the people he was in cahoots with. Ebiras have a large Muslim population but their king has got his title hasn't he ?
The title of Emir is alien to Zurus, not that there's anything wrong with it.

So you never said that then.

dayokanu:
He won golden boot at the world biggest stage. definitely a bigger individual achievement than what Thierry Henry achieved in his 34 yrs

Andres Iniesta's goal in the final is more important than anything Mueller has ever achieved, even his conception two decades plus ago. In the same vein Henry's goals in the 1998 and 2006 world cups that won him the cup in the former and first runner up medal in the latter Mueller in every way.

dayo you are the epitome of moronicity, i know Mueller won 2010 golden boot and Muller as the dinosaur.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=674760.msg9938623#msg9938623 date=1326241240]hehehe, biafrans will try to claim Kogi without being challenged. Thanks to people like karfe, that claim will be invalidated.

Naijaking, Happy New Year, I didn't know that you are a closet expansionist.[/quote]If i remember correctly, you're actually the very person who blatantly denied the existence of any entity known as middle belt.

dayokanu:
When any Arsenal player wins World cup golden boot like Muller get back to me

See this guy calling Muller, were you even Alive then? okay let me go and bring Arsenal players like Denis Compton who was also an England International Cricketer. Rubbish!

So Nigeria is finally going yo end? Atleast i'l have stories to tell my grand children. Let's finish with this thing once and for all.

duduspace:
Alright, when any of them wins the European Golden boot back to back, then come back for discussions. 

back to back? when any of them ever win it, simple.

But none of them finished runner up to Zidane for the title of world footballer of the year.

Just to note. Unlike the article in the original post
of this thread, I am of the opinion that ethnicity,
and not Islamic or Christian origins, should
determine the make-up of the MB region.
However, some ethnic groups have been so
affected by Islam (or the Hausa culture?) in the
MB that they have a closer affinity with the core
north than other MB groups

I agree with you on this. The make up of the area should be based on the ethnic origins of the people and not their religious affiliations.

About some tribes having a close affinity with core north, i do agree that is more visible among the Nupes and Some Zurus. I think it has to do with factors like religion and presence of core northern settlers in their midst.

Your brain is leaking very vital fluids that's why you can't even see that out of all the tournaments you mentioned there's only one he doesn't have under his belt.

What about the Bayern duds from Podolski, Klose to your present penguin nose(beak) Gomez ? Start naming tournaments they have won, and I'm not talking about your local German titles. I'm talking about world cups, Euro cups and Champions league.

dayokanu:
Lol Henry an Arsenal legend walahi he cant make top 50 among the players who have worn a Bayern shirt

Name me the 50 Bayern players that have finished first runner up to the world football of the year. If you can't name them then don't post on our thread again.

v3:
Yo Ed, you need to calm the phuck down hombre. This thing with DK is becoming more serious than i though

nateevs:
I am not talking about who is richer, I am talking about the latter comment.

What the he'll!!! Don't tell me you guys are now on DK's side. Never thought i'd see the day

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=674760.msg9936433#msg9936433 date=1326216588]Basically, despite being different groups with different languages and cultures, you middle belt peoples (and we Yoruba, for that matter) have a common enemy.

The Fulani and the Hausa.

All of us, our history to some extent has been defined by combating this Sokoto Caliphate. And 200+ years later, the battle is not yet won. The struggle continues.

That I think is enough to define common interest.

And until this Sokoto Caliphate and their descendants/allies are completely destroyed, we have to stick together.[/quote]Wow!! really strong words ekt, but things are not exactly as black and white as they seem, we have a very complex problem in our hands of which much much of the blame falls on very wrong ideologies set in the past.