₦airaland Forum

I warned you all not to vote
Jonathan,but you wouldn't
listen. Buhari would've been tough,but
he wouldn't have danced to the tune
of the IMF and World Bank are
playing through their DJs,"The
Bitch";Okonjo Iweala and"Ol Dirty. Bastard",Goodluck Ebele Jonathan .I warned. You
all,but you turned deaf ears ,

No!My alter ego did.

23.that's when my life took a turn for the better.I left dad to go stay with my mums,and twas like starting my life all over and relishing the childhood I lost. Had a cha cha peugeot 504 @ my disposal,money to burn,parties,clubs, twas purely heaven. Mums spoiled me rotten.All that is history now,sadly.23 it is for me

Closer-Goapele. A must hear Song

Take Care Of you -The Fray.This song heals me

That's it for the nite guys,to the trenches now,to battle tomorrow

dayokanu:
Dont mistake Benjamin Adekunle for Adekunle Fajuyi 2 different people

Fajuyi died with Irosi, Black Scorpion is still alive

my bad,thanks

freepeople:
Thank you my dear. How I wish to get more of people like you from our Yoruba neighbour. Gen. Stanley McChrystal was relieved of his duty when he made a less offensive comment. I'm appalled that an educated and proud tribe as Yorubas did not distance themselves from such comment. Is this an example of Yoruba hypocrisy? It is well documented that many mass graves were unearthed after Biafran forces retook Owerri from Adekunle forces. I think you understands the issue at stake. Adekunle is never a great military tactician. How come the ill-equipped Biafran forces were able to seize the control of Owerri from him? His comment is genocidal in nature. I would rather die than surrender to a war criminal like adekunle. Someday it will be the turn of another ethnic group to experience the Igbo style of ordeal. Nigeria has no future if people can condone such comment.

guy,calm down. you're over reacting. This was war time. People could not be held liable for statement alluded to them. Enemies, during war times can be likened to objects or animals. In Fajuyi's case he felt comfortable describing the Ibos as both. Even the Yorubas sometimes describe them as"Eran Oko".I hope this clears your misconceptions about the man's statement,thank you

realchange:
show me ONE [/b]yoruba soldier that led 90% yoruba soldiers to fight anybody in Nigeria
answer is a big fat [b]ZERO.      none! nada! zilch!    chineke! none! 
one ran away even before the first shot was fired. the other one sh!tt and peed his pants while sucking aboki diickk.
your uncle was the figure head of a northern army. his @ss was still whooped! 
you are a very very very weak people.
now salute a soldier here! oya go!   

Ojukwu did not fight in the war,he only gave orders to subs and foot soldiers.after sending them to their early graves,he opted for use of their infants to fight his deluded war.He Should've been charged for use of under aged kids after their parents has been sent to the great beyond.After all was said and done, he fled for his life when death stared him in the face,and you're here celebrating him!The man was a hypocrite and suffered from narcissism disorder. They don't make them like Ghadaffi no more,

Adekunle Fajuyi;My Hero, I have a lot to thank you for

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/27901-court-insists-lastma-can’t-impose-fine.html

The nation newspaper 29/11 2011

Nemo judex in cau sa sua

Moves by the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) to  stay execution of a Federal High Court judgment, stripping it of the powers to impose fine on traffic offenders were rejected yesterday by Justice Okon Abang.
In a ruling yesterday, Justice Abang held that LASTMA’s application for stay of execution pending the determination of its (LASTMA’s) appeal, lacked merit and dismissed it. 
He warned the transport agency to desist from imposing fines on transport offenders, urging anyone, from whom LASTMA demand fines, to approach the court for the enforcement of the judgment.
Justice Abang declared some sections of LASTMA’s Establishing Act as unconstitutional, null and void, and held that LASTMA lacked the power to impose fines on traffic offenders in Lagos.
Jonathan Odutola, whose car was impounded by LASTMA officials, approached the court for an enforcement of his rights. 
A fine was imposed on him for allegedly flouting traffic regulations.
 Justice Abang had held that sections 9, 11, 12 and 13 of the law establishing LASTMA are unconstitutional and of no effect.
The judge not only awarded N500,000 against LASTMA, but stated that four sections of its law were contrary to Section 36 of the 1999 Constitution, which gives the right of fair hearing to every Nigerian.
He held that while the agency has the power to arrest traffic offenders, it does not have the powers to impose fine, adding that instead, it is a court of law that has power to impose fines on anybody who contravenes the law.
The judge ruled that the imposition of fines on any traffic offender by LASTMA amounted to being a judge in its own cause.

Britain's sports minister led calls for FIFA
president Sepp Blatter to resign on
Thursday after the global football supremo
played down the extent of racism in the
sport.
Hugh Robertson said Blatter's position as
head of world football was no longer tenable
after he said in a television interview that
disputes on the pitch involving racist abuse
should be resolved by a handshake.
'Sepp Blatter's comments are completely
unacceptable,' Robertson said. 'This is the
latest episode that calls into question whether
this man should be the head of world
football.
'For the sake of the game, he should go. We
have been consistent in our calls for
improved governance at FIFA and this
underlines the need for that once more.'
The head of England's Professional
Footballers Association, Gordon Taylor, also
said Blatter should quit.
'He is the leader of world football, he has to
be a leader in anti-racism,' Taylor told Sky
News.
'Racism is divisive and for him to say the
player on the receiving end should forget
about it at the end of the game and shake
hands, We are going backwards, It is not
good enough, it's embarrassing.
'It is time for him to go.'
Herman Ouseley, a member of the House of
Lords who chairs the anti-racism Kick It
Out group, said Blatter had no
'understanding of what racism is'.
'Enlightened leadership at this level is
needed. Minor matters on the field often can
be resolved with a handshake. Racism is not
a minor matter,' he said.
Blatter's comments were greeted with
incredulity by the British media, a long-time
critic of the Swiss administrator's
stewardship of FIFA.
The Sun tabloid led the condemnation with a
front page story headlined 'Blind as a Blatt',
while the paper's editorial said it was time
for the veteran Swiss official to step down.
'Blatter has long been a serious
embarrassment to the game,' the paper said.
'Now we know he thinks racism is no big
deal. What a toad he is.'
Blatter's comments came as Liverpool's
Uruguayan international Luis Suarez was
charged by the English Football Association
for allegedly racially abusing Manchester
United's French international Patrice Evra.
England captain John Terry is also facing a
police and FA investigation over allegations
he hurled racist abuse at QPR defender
Anton Ferdinand.
The Daily Telegraph's football
correspondent Henry Winter, meanwhile,
said Blatter's position at the summit of the
sport was untenable.
'Any politician who had uttered similarly
offensive comments would have been sacked
or resigned,' Winter wrote. 'Yet
Tyrannosaurus Sepp carries on, an
embarrassment to a wonderful sport, an
affront to common decency.'
In an interview with CNN on Wednesday,
Blatter said the sport did not have a problem
with racism.
'I would deny it. There is no racism, there is
maybe one of the players towards another,
he has a word or a gesture which is not the
correct one,' he said.
'But also the one who is affected by that, he
should say that this is a game. We are in a
game, and at the end of the game, we shake
hands, and this can happen, because we
have worked so hard against racism and
discrimination.'
Blatter later issued a statement clarifying his
remarks.
'My comments have been misunderstood.
What I wanted to express is that, as football
players, during a match, you have 'battles'
with your opponents, and sometimes things
are done which are wrong,' he said.
But former England captain Rio Ferdinand
addressed Blatter directly via Twitter: 'Your
comments on racism are so condescending
it's almost laughable. If fans shout racist
chants but shake our hands is that ok?'
Blatter on Thursday reiterated FIFA's
'proud record' of fighting discrimination in a
post on Twitter.

Osogbo – An Osogbo Senior Magistrates’
Court on Thursday sentenced a 28-year-old
nursing mother, Taye Joseph, to seven days
of community service for stealing a carton
of indomie.
The convict was to be kept in the custody
of Ataoja Police Station in Osogbo from
where she was expected to be coming to
clean the court’s premises for seven days.
Senior Magistrate Olusola Aluko, however,
gave an option of N300 fine for each of
the seven-count charges brought against the
convict.
Joseph had pleaded guilty to the seven-
count charges of conspiracy, house-
breaking as well as stealing and asked for
leniency.
The police prosecutor, Solomon Oladele,
told the court that the woman committed the
offences, which contravened sections 516,
383, 413 and 390, of the Criminal Code,
Laws of Osun, on Nov. 16, at Olugun area
in Osogbo.
Oladele, while presenting the facts of the
case during a summary trial, told the court
that Joseph forcefully entered the shop of
one Fasilat Yinusa and stole a carton of
indomie valued at N1, 200.
He added that the woman stole some
biscuits, Viju milk, eggs, packets of
cigarettes and Bournvita among other items
from the shops of Mulikat Agbeja and
Folasade Suleieman.
According to Oladele, one Falola Saidi
sighted the convict while trying to escape
with the stolen items and raised an alarm
which enabled passersby to apprehend her.
Aluko, in his jugdment, said : “
Throughout the trial period, I watched the
convict keenly as she wept which indicated
that she is regretting her action and I
noticed that she is very sober.
“She is to be kept in the custody of the
Ataoja Police Station from where she
should be coming to clean the premises of
this court for seven days.
“The convict should report at 8 a.m and
close at 4 p.m for the seven days and in the
alternative, she should pay a fine of N300
for each of the seven count-charge brought
against her.” (NAN)

musKeeto:
My observations

1. No Beaf/Reuben Abati in sight. E be lyk say money don dey finish.

2. Good article. Better responses. No insults yet. Doubt the streak will continue beyond page 2

3. How does this improve the cost of garri in the market? We've written and read enough. We've abused and cursed enough. The only way forward is ***.

****BLOODY REVOLUTION

Kakatazz:
Are u married? Cos if u are married then it's ADULTERY and u are going straight to HELL!!!

HYPOCRITE!God hates people like you. So therefore,it is YOU that will go to HELL!QED

Dunno, but I've shagged someone so quick before,I didn't ask her name.

What kind of nonsense is this?A bloody civilian leading policemen on operations?I want to strongly believe that this man isn't working alone. he probably has the backing of the top echelon of the force! look at his style of operations;high profiled,even as far as travelling to Malaysia to effect arrests. He's been plying this trade of guile for so long and the police didn't notice ?Pls I need an answer.

By Jide Ajani
It was brazen yet effective. In less than 24hours,
over 150 people had been killed.
A spokesman for the BOKO HARAM, using the
name Abul_Qaqa, who spoke hours after
witnesses reported “scenes of carnage” vowed
that “more attacks are on the way.
“We will continue attacking federal government
formations”, he threatened, “until security
forces stop their excesses on our members and
vulnerable civilians,” Abul_Qaqa said in an interview
with newsmen.
Yet, there appeared to have been sufficient
intelligence which suggested that the Sallah
weekend would be bloody as members of the
Ahlan Sunnah Lid Da’waati wal Jihad Yaanaa
(brothers), also known as the Boko Haram sect
would strike. Though the intelligence provided
hinted at a strike by the sect, it was not target
specific.
File photo: Suspected Boko Haram members
after their arrest.
So, what happened?
A source informed Sunday Vanguard that had “the
so called intelligence provided been target
specific, officers and men of the police force
would have prepared for an effective response.
And even the way and manner the sect members
struck in Damaturu, they were able to do so
because they knew the geography, topography
and everything about the state”.
Information available to Sunday Vanguard points in
the direction of not only intelligence failure but a
gap in operational co-ordination as being
responsible for the seeming success recorded by
members of the sect. In fact, the vengeance of
not being able to carry out their strike in Borno
State was what was visited on Damaturu, the
Yobe State capital.
For the members of the sect, their attachment
to Yobe State dates back to sometime between
2004 and 2007.
Investigations by Sunday Vanguard within the
intelligence community revealed that members of
the group are very familiar with Yobe State. The
group had set up a base in Kanamma, Yobe State,
from where the then seeming rag-tag followers
of the brotherhood operated. The camp was
aptly named Afghanistan. The man in charge at
that time was Mohammed Ali – Mohammed Yusuf,
founder of the sect had traveled abroad for
treatment.
It was from that camp that they were first
dislodged. Acting on a tip off, the security
agencies invaded the camp and flushed out the
members. But they only scattered; the group
refused to disband. In deed, it waxed stronger by
attracting more members. Before Yusuf’s
return, the group moved from the camp and
headed northwards, towards Maiduguri, the capital
of Borno State, and set up a new camp.
Although Sunday Vanguard could not establish the
exact year, there was evidence, according to
security sources, to suggest that the group sent
some eight persons to Algeria in North Africa to go
and learn how to make Improvised Explosive
Device, IEDs, within thaty same period of three
years.
From all indications, those they sent out learnt
well. They perfected the art of making IEDs. At
least, the evidence of that is the spate of
bombings that the group has caused to happen in
just about 11 months, starting from December last
year.
Therefore, when the sect decided to re_group
and launch, it was with a vengeance.
Firstly, the group members invaded the prison in
Bauchi and set free its members.
For regaining freedom, they pledged eternal loyalty
to the group.
President Jonathan
According to an agent of America’s Federal Bureau
of Investigation, FBI, Jennifer Dent, who is the US
Embassy’s legal attaché, the Police and Civil
Society, (at a Hubert Humphrey forum in Lagos)
“We have been hearing of Boko Haram but people
had not realized that there were others in the
continent”.
She said her government and the Nigerian
authorities were working together in the area of
intelligence gathering and effective response.
With regards to the October 1, 2010, bombings,
she said “we brought in bomb technicians to help
your government. Throughout the entire elections
we had experts coming in and out”.
In fact using the June 16 bombing of the Police
Force headquarters as an example of how security
consciousness could save lives, she said “I was
actually at the police headquarters in June.
I was at the IG’s office and we were very lucky
that a very observant law enforcement officer
noticed that a car followed the IG’s motorcade
into the building and only because he noticed and
forced him to divert to the visitors’ parking area,
the bomb would have gone off in front of the
headquarters and there would have been a lot
more serious loss of lives”.
Therefore, the question to ask is: To what use
have the police put the collaborative efforts?
Why couldn’t the carnage in Damaturu be averted?
Sunday Vanguard was told that there are fresh
concerns that there may indeed be fifth
columnists within the system which makes it
appear as though the Boko Haram operatives are
sometimes a step ahead of the game.
When Sunday Vanguard asked a top intelligence
person last Friday about the possibility of fifth
columnists within the system, his sharp response
was: “What do you think and why do you think they
do some of those things they do the way they do
them”?
The source reminded Sunday Vanguard of the
United Nation’s House bombing earlier, explaining
that fortification of strategic buildings were done
only for the terrorists to have a last minute change
of plans and headed for the UN House.
The source said that the carnage in Yobe was a
result of similar thinking.
According to a source, a truck carrying the Boko
Haram sect members and their explosives was
sighted early last Friday 4th November, close to
the Gombe/Yobe border, obviously making its way
to Maiduguri . But once it became obvious to the
bombers that their mission may have been
unearthed, they made a detour to Yobe State.
On entering Yobe state, security agencies including
Mobile Police personnel and other security
operatives opened fire on the truck and injured
some of the sect members inside it. The truck
was said to have continued its movement with the
occupants shooting sporadically along the road at
any Police checkpoint or security personnel they
met on the road until it got to the city center.
At the city center, they commenced throwing of
bombs at any notable government structure and
churches they met on the way before the truck
was said to have gone up in explosion following a
counter attack from security agencies that had
become effectively mobilized.
“The attack on churches in particular was said to
have been a pre_meditated attempt by the sect
members to instigate a religious uprising and
reprisal attacks between Christians and Moslems in
the North East but security agencies have taken
measures to prevent such”, the source said.
But even as Nigeria was still grappling with the
effects of that, the American government issued
a terror alert warning people of terror plans
targeting three luxury hotels in Abuja. The
embassy warned its citizens to avoid the Nicon
Luxury, Transcorp Hilton, and Sheraton hotels in
Abuja, the three luxury hotels frequented by
foreigners in Abuja, which the embassy said may be
the next target of the deadly Islamist sect.
But Issa Aremu, Vice President of the Nigeria
Labour Congress, NLC, took a swipe at the
embassy for attempting to exacerbate an already
terrible situation in the country.
According to Aremu, such a terror alert was
completely unhelpful, scary and unacceptable to
all Nigerians, emphasising that any further scare
about Nigeria’s security challenge is one scare too
addictive and too unhelpful.
“What will be refreshingly new and healing for
Nigerians (and particularly from the friends of
Nigeria including America) are creative constructive
suggestions and ideas on how to put an end to the
security challenges. The America’s warning
statement is certainly not refreshing to Nigerians.
On the contrary, it complicates the security
challenges for a country striving to cope with the
challenges of development. In an attempt to
selfishly safeguard her own citizens, America’s
scary statement creates unnecessary tension for
150 million citizens of Nigeria. In 2005 a dubious
intelligence report from Washington predicted
the collapse of Nigerian project in 2015. We
hope USA is not working to prove an acid test.
“America enjoyed instant global sympathy and
solidarity of the world after the criminal Sept. 11
2001 attack. America should constructively
extend same solidarity and sympathy to other
countries under terror and this cannot be done
through red_herring that demobilizes the nation
and demobilizes 150 million people”, he said.
Making the case for good governance, Aremu
further said “the promise of independence is that
the sovereignty and independence of the country
must be respected. The meddlesomeness of
America in the affairs of Nigeria is increasingly too
open and brazen.
The solution is good governance and Nigeria’s
leaders at all levels must be on duty to provide
good governance. Certainly with development and
good governance truly independent Nigeria can be
re-invented”.
The National Security Adviser, General Owoye
Andrew Azazi, also accused America of fanning
unnecessary tension in the country by issuing a
warning to its citizens resident in the country to
avoid three high profile hotels in the federal capital
territory because of fears of terrorist attacks.
Soldiers were immediately deployed to take over
security of almost all high profile hotels in Abuja.
The NSA had disclosed in a statement in Abuja,
Monday, that his office was on top of the
security situation in the country, insisting that the
threat by Boko Haram to bomb three luxury hotels
in Abuja was not new. Similarly, President
Goodluck Jonathan pledged that all new projects
on security beef up in the country would be
completed very soon,
Interestingly, it was the confetti of opposition
views about the unintended consequences of
America’s terror alert that forced it to ease
same. But even after that, Boko Haram kept
striking on a daily basis.

Thanks very much!those scam artist have been ripping me off for days now,and a call to their useless customer care has been VERY FRUITLESS

Nigeria self destructing in,10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2,

David Blaine!

dragnet:
I feel your plight bt . . .u culd've laid a complaint about the phone here 1st & I culd've fixed it under 48hrs !. . . .
Check this. . .

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I wonder what wuld've happend to his too if he took it there?! . . . I fixed it under 48hrz & even at a cheaper deal !. . . I later went to nokia care Ikeja to get him a battery but they didnt have . .imagine that?

dragnet baba,pls I need the network palava for my nokia x6 resolved.I also want to change the case and touch screen.abeg, e-mail me how much e go cost.dbliss25@gmail.com,goldalms@gmail.com or goldalms@mtnnigeria.blackberry.com,ooooose!

My nokia x6 reception or network is non operational. it just doesn't come up.I'll also like to change the touch screen. can you kindly give me an estimate?one other thing.I want to know. If it's under warranty?imei:356046/03/456466/9,code:0589460

Roca-Water is more like it!Atleast that's what he would name his water company.

logica:
I always laugh when I see such comments "he snatched my girlfriend" or "she snatched my boyfriend". Dude/woman, that woman/guy was never yours. That's why he/she left. Get that in your head f00l!

logica:
I always laugh when I see such comments "he snatched my girlfriend" or "she snatched my boyfriend". Dude/woman, that woman/guy was never yours. That's why he/she left. Get that in your head f00l!

I just dnt get it?why the name calling?not like we've met before.Mod pls take note of this person.thanks.

Nearly gave in 2 revenge once.the girl I was sponsoring her education @ a tech sch in akoka,was snatched 4rm me by a car dealer @ costain.to add insult to injury,she usually drives the space wagon given to her by the bloke to the neighbourhood.the shame was too much for me to bear, I had hatched a fool proof plan to burn the car crispy,but changed my mind at the very last moment.

seems glo and etisalat dont work wit verizon help

tanks