₦airaland Forum

Peter Obi told us this last election was an existential one.

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If Atiku was Obi he would have leveraged on this.

Humility is powerful.

Wike was strategic. He carefully made Atiku look arrogant and treating the South as 2nd fiddle.
When he saw that some SS people were beginning to pity Atiku, he brought up the GEJ story

That story Wike brought up opened old wounds, thereby dealing Atiku a fatal blow in the South. Okowa who cannot even influence his village is looking like a lost puppy.

NwaAmaikpe:



I support the ban.
These pastors need to cut gays and lesbians some slack.
Homosexuality is not caused by an evil spirit and as long gays recognize Christ as their Lord and their saviour, they can't be condemned.

What's there in accepting humans for who they are; must we shame and demonize them just because they are gay? It is very ungodly.
Christ in whom our Christianity is based on was very tolerant of unbelievers.

I love lesbians, I'm fact they are my favourite porn genre so the earlier we learn to love and accept these gays, the better for us because who knows? One day we may find out that one of our offsprings is gay and then we'd expect people to love them.

Why do you think God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah? Homosexuality is not of God. Yes we have no right to condemn or judge them because we are not their maker, but we however have a right to our opinion as well, and that should be respected too. Live and let live.

Am totally broken reading this.

Am all teary. This is humanity! Family is not only those connected to you by blood.

God have mercy!

How can Nigerian workers be treated as slaves in their own land. @lalasticlala or the MOD concerned, kindly help move this to front page, please.

*Unpaid severance benefits, others lead to Nigeria losing 30 thousand barrels of crude oil bpd , gas power plant others shutdown.

By Tessy Mingo,

The joint union of Nigeria Union of Petroleum And Natural Gas Workers and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 shutdown the Pan Ocean OML 98 Flow Station field now being partially taken over by NPDC at Ovade, Oghara, Delta State.

The shutting down of the flow station will cause Nigeria’s economy to bleak further as the country begins losing 30 thousand barrel of crude per day as well as 50 million scf of gas daily which has plunged Egbin Power plant and those areas and states they supply into darkness.

The National body of the two unions, NUPENGASSAN had ordered the shutting down of the flow station due to unpaid agreed severances of Pan Ocean workers which the management of Pan Ocean and federal government have signed more than seven months ago.

They are however angry that after several months of writing series of letters of reminder to Pan Ocean, NNPC, DPR, NAPIMS as well as Ministry of labour and Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, there has been no attention and attempt to pay them, they noted that NPDC has commenced take over of the facility but haven’t rolled-over workers as it is the norm, practiced in the oil and gas industry .

OML 98 and OML 147 as well as NPDC OML 111 (Oredo fields) and other companies flowing through Pan Ocean flow station and export line have all been affected as 30 thousand barrel per day crude oil, goes off Nigeria quantum of crude daily production.

It could be recalled that the NUPENG Branch Chairman, Comrade Aboy Udi, PENGASSAN Branch Chairman, Comrade Rex Aibangbee as well as NUPENG National PRO, Comrade Cogent Ojobor and PENGASSAN Warri Zonal Council Vice Chairman, Comrade Prince Audu Peter Oshiokhamele with NUPENGASSAN National President, Williams Eniredonana Akporehe and PENGASSAN National President comrade, Comrade Osifo Festus both unanimously declared and gave Pan Ocean and federal government as well as relevant agencies 48 hours starting from December 7, to meet up the demands of the workers or they shutdown their operations.

They reiterated that the two union presidents have been directed that they should shutdown operations if NNPC, NAPIMS and Ministry of Petroleum doesn’t resolve the issues amicably by paying the workers what’s due them as well as rolling them over as employees of NPDC.

https://egbemavoice.com/2020/12/breaking-nupengassan-shutdown-oml-98-as-nigerias-economy-bleaks-further/

Employees of Pan Ocean Oil Corporation (Nigeria) Limited, under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) & the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) since Tuesday, December 1, 2020 picketed the Operations Base Office of the company along KM 10 Sapele Road, Benin City, and the Ovade - Ogharefe Gas Plant Processing Facility & Flow-Station in Ovade, Oghara, Delta State.

The PENGASSAN Chairman, Comrade Rex Aibangbee and his NUPENG counterpart, Comrade Aboy Udi in a joint statement made available to journalists, stated that the action of the members is borne out of the non payment of severance to employees by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, following the revocation and handover of the OML 98 acreage to the NPDC, discussions over employees roll over, as well as legacy payment of PAYE tax and contributory pension of over 36 months by Pan Ocean management.

It could be recalled that prior to the revocation and hand over, Pan Ocean was in a Joint Venture Partnership with the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, with the NNPC having a 60% stake and Pan Ocean 40%.

The Union also accused the management of Pan Ocean and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of insensitivity, insincerity and impunity in handling the affairs of employees following the handover of the acreage.

The Union Executives promised to shut down the Gas Plant Facility & Flow Station, which would affect crude oil activities of NPDC Oredo field, OML 147 production and the supply of gas to Egbin power station.

Our value system has been thrown to the dogs. Zero.

Where is the source?

This Shaibu guy seems mentally retarded. Is Oshiomhole on the ballot? Instead of showing Edo people your works for almost 4 years, you are busy casting aspersions on someone who made you.

This one pass 10 Battalion put together o. If Obaseki survives this, then na man him be. because the who is who in Edo politics is on that list.

Obaseki is fighting both those fighting him and those not fighting him. He now suspects every and anything.
The heat of an election, Oshiomhole took for him in 2016 is beginning to have its toll on him now.

This country is finished. The hunter now the hunted.

I am a Surviving victim

On the eve of my 40th birthday.......I thank God.

Sometime in 1993 I cried myself to tears for a whole week on end after I received the worst brutality of my life. I was lashed 24 times, my persecutor counted every single stroke of that 24 that landed on my buttocks, some on my back those never counted as these were nullified and I was 12. I lay on my side for a whole week. Cried myself to sleep for a whole week. My offence, being unable to answer questions after questions from my fine Arts teacher, I was in Js,1. The questions he asked were beyond my small brain. I was a top student. Fellow students were shocked at this killing of a fly with a sledgehammer; the questions and the consequence were all smokescreen. A day before I had refused to go see him in his cubicle.

My humiliation didn’t start in ’93 but in 1992 when I arrived in a boarding catholic school far from home. I had lived a sheltered life in a homely, semi-rural Mbaise homeland. My mum had handed me to him to take absolutely good care of me and had returned home. She did not forget to give him my pocket money only to be given to me when necessary. That was when my nightmare began at first subtly then later brutally venomous. The problem was I had just turned 12. I did not know it was a possibility that a man would want a man sexually or romantically. But here I was a lamb to the slaughter and unwilling sexual partner to a man I suppose was in his late 20’s. He was my teacher, was teaching me Fine Arts and Agricultural Science. He again was my bank, and I needed money now and again. I resorted to borrowing rather than go to him to ask for my money because I will pay by turning my behind for him to have his way, uncomplaining, compliant, marks of my slavery; bought without payment; sacrificed at the altar of a man’s wanton sense of enjoyment without compassion nor conscience.

I can picture these events or incidents if you may, in the open field, in his bed; wherever it suits him that is out of sight. I always dreaded the night; (nights I yearned for my mum, for the comfort of my home) he could pick me up in the middle of me studying about the rules of grammar and my night class was over. Now, I do not know why he does not stop when he starts. Did not know if he was on drugs or if it was just sheer human prowess. I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT HE WAS DOING TO ME. Once the SS 3 students found out and called me to an impromptu court somewhere at the edge of St Anthony’s hostel. They asked me what was going on between me and Fabik as he was known. I said nothing. They said they will kick the hell out of me and I told them my story and one line comes to mind...I told them he will lie me down and urinate inside my bum…and they burst out into a cacophony of laughter. They could have saved me, but they laughed at me and dispersed while my hope for redemption dissipated. They laughed so hard I cringed at the trivialization of my “situation” my "pain". We so dearly needed psychologists in our school, if we had one maybe I would have courageous enough, again I am not sure;you keep playing and re-playing these things on your mind....

For 12 years I held this to myself, there was no tears, no recrimination. My youthful, soulful, innocent ambience hid my pains well. I had to tell my mother in 2004 and she prayed for me and told me to remember my name “Munachimso.” She told me God will fight for me.

Why do I write about this now after close to 3 decades? This is my catharsis, my closed space to vent because after looking for him without success he sent me a friend request last year and I accepted it. He had few small talks that I endured before asking him pointedly why he raped me…and his response was I must have got the wrong man. That I am highly mistaken. That is majorly why I write today. I wanted him to tell me something that would explain what he did to me, anything; but he failed to do that and blocked me. He could have said Sorry. That would have sufficed. I have two beautiful boys I wouldn't allow close to a boarding school. For me to survive I found a beautiful smile to hide my pains (beauty for ashes), who would have fathomed the devastation I went through.

Our parents wanted the best for us, hence the decision to seek schools far removed from our reality. I wrote to my father twice, each were lengthy letters asking him to remove me from that school, but he told me that adversity were what men are made of. I went on to finish 6 long years here where my mental pains was birthed. He did not know how adverse my situation was. I could not tell him.I couldn't tell the authorities, I had been beaten to submission.

Thinking of it today I wonder why we were treated with so much brutality. On a good day you could be flogged thrice, on a bad day you could be flogged up to 8 times. Unnecessary punishment for seeking education in the hallowed chambers of the catholic church. You could be flogged for being seconds late to prayers or to breakfast or class, or talking during magna silentia even if it was necessary and maybe for not dressing your bed to a certain satisfaction. I do not know what this did to me,I don’t know what it is still doing to me but with this I stop seeking permission to be alive, to be me and to voice my frustration. I will still have time to ask forgiveness of all those who may not have witnessed the best version of me. Francis Kalu bastardised my essence but his power over me is over. For over a year you could have stopped but you didn’t, you only stopped because you left the school and I was happy then you did not go to senior seminary, as that would have been a slap on my faith. Whether he reads this or not is inconsequential but if he thinks I was deluded and got the wrong man I would love to have him sue me.

Happy Birthday to me


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You see, the police is not only the problem. Our judiciary also have a long way to go! What is two years in prison? It is meant to be life!!!!

Interesting story.

Heaven knows they will pay for everything. I will sue them down to their panties.

Obaseki is a goner if he doesn't decamp now to another party. This is first a party battle before the main election and the forces against him in the party are veteran politicians.

His Deputy Shaibu and the SSG, Osarodion Ogie he is banking on are not strong enough to help him out. Out of 24 members of the House of Assembly, he has just 9 on his side. Obaseki was not strategic enough. He can't win this.

With all what I have been reading online since this lockdown, I can't just help but thank God for my wife o. No troubles, we manage the little we have, drink garri when there is non and smile through it all. Baba God thank u!

I recall when my ex ransacked my bag, looking for my pay slip. She found out I was earning 150k and her attitude changed. Maybe she thought I earned more because I drive a car and her expectation did not meet with my salary. Dumped her greedy ass like piece of thrash. Someone her father couldn't even pay rent and they were ejected from their home.

Honestly your Dad is being insensitive and your mum not even making any attempt to link up with you speak volumes. I find it strange. Anyway confrontation with your dad would only make things worse.
Calm down, make him understand you love him and your siblings and would always be with them. Ask him what if your mum is suffering somewhere and needs help. Ask him where is his heart of forgiveness and empathy? He will have a Change of heart.

Nothing wey Musa no go see for gate. So you want to take this opportunity and become an irredeemable Casanova abi? If you like no use your brain.

Many states have begun to shut down in efforts to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus disease that has, at last, found its way to Nigeria, sending jitters across the length and breadth of our national existence. Clearly, the Federal Government in its consistent negligence responded too little too late. But most worrisome is the disposition of President Muhammadu Buhari at this most critical time of unprecedented but clear danger.

Don’t get it twisted; the coronavirus disease, otherwise called COVID-19, is already a pandemic. No country can boast of its immunity. Even in very few countries without the first case, their economies are already bleeding fast and furious. The first case is only a matter of when. Nigeria did hang on till February ending when the Italian index case tested positive. About three weeks later, Lagos, Ogun, Ekiti, Benue, Kaduna, public and private schools, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), and the airspace have literally shut down to contain the spread. We commend all governors, and state actors that took the proactive measures.

Like in other aspects of life, time is central in the spread and control of this Frankenstein monster. Besides the conspiracy of who engineered what between China and the United States, poor response to this unusual emergency has been a major bane of its spread across the world. State’s denial of the problem before its acceptance is why over 10,000 have died, with Italy of 60.5 million people now taking an unenviable lead in the death toll of more than four thousand.

Nigeria had a two-month window period to learn valuable lessons and get prepared. A month before the Italian index case, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned the likes of Nigeria with weak healthcare systems that it is a virus like none other before it. Concerned stakeholders also tabled proactive preventive measures like either a shutdown of the airspace or restriction of air movements to only two airports for proper monitoring of all inbound travellers. The Federal Government of Nigeria could not be bothered.

The Senate Committee on Health during an oversight function to Lagos airport and Apapa port were indeed shocked and immediately raised the alarm that the foremost ports of entry were not secured. The Lagos airport for instance had only a doctor on duty, amid inadequate support staff, screening equipment, just as operating airlines were not complying with basic control directives of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority. Nigeria, like others currently ravaged by COVID-19, continued to live in denial until the pandemic stared us menacingly in the face.

But unlike others that also came too late to wisdom, the presidency under Buhari has continued to care less. Across all paid-TV channels today, the common feature is presidents debriefing the country on where the virus stands and efforts at its control. Like true commanders-in-chief, they are seen talking to the people, encouraging first-line responders and preaching hope in speech and conducts. That is real leadership. It is, therefore, a no-brainer that Nigerians are asking, where is President Buhari in all of these?
Till date, Buhari has not made any state of the nation’s address on coronavirus pandemic and that is strange, though not unfamiliar. It is no longer news that President Buhari’s aloofness is remarkable. He enjoys talking to us from overseas as if Nigerians were leprous. After all, he did not care when citizens were getting killed in Benue and even in his home state, Katsina. He could not be troubled when Abule-Ado community in Lagos exploded and more than 20 killed the other day. He did not bat an eyelid even when his presidency was nearly going up in flames over rift between the national security adviser and chief of staff.

But the new coronavirus is a different animal. The modern world and its civilisation has never been this shaken to its foundation like now. It is also a time for true leadership with compassion – showing those capable or incapable of it. The closest our president has come in this matter was to launch an emergency toll-free number, 112, and have press secretaries issue releases. Indeed, Buhari is not the most eloquent of men. But he has been elected to occupy the seat of the commander-in-chief, traditionally made for times like this. Health experts have their space in this context and leaders have theirs for motivation and direction.

The sensitivity of this time more than ever exposes the manner of the presidency Buhari leads. The president is the father of a fearful nation. What manner of paterfamilias will not bother to visit his children when they are down in the hospital or move a limb when his entire economy goes on life support? Yes, he has sent them to the hospital and getting feedback from the clinical services, but what of compassion and empathy? What of leading by example in most critical times of his family life?

Is he even worried, if he is aware that he has very limited chances of another UK hospital treatment should his health fail at this time? Where is enlightened self-interest in this presidency? Has age and concomitant factors so shackled our leadership that the general has forgotten how to rally his troop to chances of victory? There are certainly more questions than answers at the moment. However, what is certain is that the response from Buhari is unpresidential and unacceptable.

Due to consistently poor leadership, we have lost ample time for self-fortification. Nevertheless, it is not time to despair as a people. It is time to be strong, well-enlightened, share knowledge, cooperate with authorities, be our brothers’ keeper and have faith. Given what is already known of coronavirus to date, Nigeria is at the vantage position to lead the rest of Africa not only to resist the pandemic but also to cure the world. The so-called superpowers have shown their frailty, if not buffoonery, before an infinitesimal virus that should ordinarily not survive in African warm climate. The very low rate of its infection among Black Africans is a testament to that assertion.

For us, this is the time for bodies like the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) and virologists to be most active in finding control measures and cure. Once there is an index case at hand, good researchers, not politicians in lab wears, already have research materials for vaccine development. Our scientists cannot afford to be as bad as our political officeholders. We recognise efforts of the likes of Maurice Iwu, a professor of pharmacognosy, (a branch of knowledge concerned with medicinal drugs obtained from plants or other natural sources) in this regard. Their contributions should be institutionalised in accordance to their clinical merits. This is a golden moment for Nigerian exceptionalism to make a statement for Africa, especially in the face of inhuman international politics of attrition.

Now and more than ever is the need for properly coordinated national emergency response team. With 27 positive cases already on ground, and over 1000 on surveillance list, all medical and paramedical hands must be on the deck and eyes on the target. We have a long haul emergency that requires the presence of mind of all and sundry. It is already bad that there are only three test centres in all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. Meanwhile, it is not a time for any arm of medical practitioners to down tools, press for additional welfare or officials to be at loggerheads.

Besides, it is not a time for religious leaders to place misleading spirituality over scientific facts and timely medical treatments. While we do not deny the place of higher forces and efficacy of prayers in situations, we have more of a human and medical problem that should be dealt with accordingly. Our religious leaders, besides prayers, should use their pulpits to preach personal hygiene, practical safety measures like social distancing, hope and patience, as their social responsibility to our collective survival.

Someday, and in not too distant future, Nigeria and the world at large will overcome this existential plague. True leaders that rallied their troops of medics, responders, researchers and strategists to victory for humanity will mount the podium of posterity to be decorated. Pretenders to the throne, villains that dashed hopes, and let down their people, will also have their lots in the dustbin of history.

https://guardian.ng/opinion/buharis-strange-leadership-in-covid-19-crisis/

What did i just read? Guy, life is up and down. Man up and put your life back together. Leave your innocent wife alone! She is a witch and still allowed herself to carry your child? Brother wey mumu.

I regret supporting PMB in 2015. This man is an affliction and by the special grace of God, we will see his end and not him seeing ours!

What an adorable baby. Tboss, No be every dog wey bark them dey answer.

Yes, i can marry a celebrity who is professional and who understands there is a difference between her family life and professional life. Not all of them are loosed and bitchy.

Nothing wey Musa no go see for gate! What effrontery and chicanery!