₦airaland Forum

onyxo76:
which too much money? the value of your 100k in 2022 cannot be compared to the present time, so what are we talking about ?

Well, if you know economics you will know what we are talking about.

eliwa47:
Why can't they at least pay 2 months, and later balance the remaining 2 months?

I think they don’t want too much money in the system at a time. They will release the rest money gradually . The aim is to prevent inflation .

Praxis758:
If Peter Obi had won and ruling Nigeria like this; APC, TVC and the core north would have chased him out of Aso Rock.

You confirm that yourself, that Obi is a neophyte and nobody trusts him. But Tinubu can be trusted and strong.

TheBillyonaire:
There is a point there. The State can explore that option.

If the Federal Allocation that is generated from the State's land, water and air are not given to the State, it is natural sovereign right of the people of the State, through their representatives to organize a referendum and if the vote of the referendum is in favor of Sovereignty as an alternative to constitutional anarchy then the people of Rivers State can declare sovereignty and request that Nigeria and her agents vacate its waters, lands and air.

You do not request for Freedom, you are already free, you just have to act free and defend yourself from aggressions.

It is a legitimate ground for Civil War.

And another Biafrauod loading with crying and gnashing of teeth thereafter, bullying the head of state to apologise after they have been decimated by the federal forces.

mallamu:
With the crisis in Rivers state and the recent judgment from the high court in Abuja instructing C.B.N to withhold state's monthly allocation. Isn't this a ground for the state to opt out of the federation. Since the central government can no longer keep its obligation to the state.

And why did we fight the civil war if that was true? Where is that written in the constitution?

10mobile:
Hmmmm! He bit his colleague? I had to click through to make sure this isn't fake news. Who else thinks his village people have a hand in this?

Nlfpmod oh!

Not just hand, they have head in it. Let him pack his bag and come home to settle scores with village people. 😂😂😂. I want to see something 😂😂

Mrfixiit:
Some states like Ogun with high IGR but nothing to show for it. I can't live in Ogun for even a week

You don’t know anything. I was borne and brought up in Lagos. I now live in Ogun and loving it. You don’t get stuck in traffic, no pressure cooker situation on the roads, very relaxed life. Many people work in Lagos and live in Abeokuta. Many rich people I mean. Power is more stable, security is far better than Lagos. No muggers and robbers, no area boys, life is just cool. Yes, night life is almost none but I don’t need it anyway. And while cost of items are hitting the roof in Lagos, Ogun is relatively cheaper.

Obviouslyblunt:
Y’all failed to elect the one person that even pretended he would fix this.

You must be talking of Obi, isn’t it? Go and ask what he did to doctors and civil servants in his state when he was governor? Obi is a one chance liar!

SadiqBabaSani:
I have a bad feeling that someone is trying to get at the North for no just course.

My guts tells me this grid Collapse Is a higher game beyond what they tell us.

The north is punishing itself. Bandits and Boko Haram are produced by the north, not by south. They go on to destroy power lines. Who is to blame? The former power minister has stated that northerners were given contract to procure and install power equipment but they stole the money and never did anything. Who is to blame?

Blessedman98:
Pray for our enemy' is a scriptural admonition indeed

You are shortsighted. In 3 years you will need to renew your glasses.

Did General Gowon Do Anything That Needs "Forgiving" As Peter Obi Alleged?

Yesterday, on Sunday, October 20, 2024, Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, faced with a mass revolt by his IPOB base of supporters, was forced to give an explanation for his congratulations to the former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, who his base view as public enemy number one.

However, in his explanations, Peter Obi made some claims that are not historically accurate. He said that General Gowon is an enemy that needs to be forgiven. And that betrays the fact that even Peter Obi himself has bought into the propaganda about the cause and origins of the Nigerian Civil War and its aftermath.

So that Mr. Obi's lies are not taken as fact and history, public intellectuals like myself must set the record straight.

First of all, the fact that someone of Peter Obi's calibre can twist history so brazenly exposes us as people who are not aware of our history. Because we are not aware of our own history, we have distorted it, such that propaganda and pseudo-history have been orally passed down from one generation to the other, feeding unfounded bitterness that is destroying those who harbour it and having no effect on those against whom they are embittered.

That is why some people believe they were just sitting down minding their business, and Hausa people came to fight them (all Northerners are Hausa to some people) because they hate them. There was absolutely no provocation or igniting events that preceded the Nigerian Civil War. Hausa people just woke up on the wrong side of the bed and, for some strange reason, decided to pounce on the people of Eastern Nigeria.

But, of course, that is not what happened. However, because we do not write our history, and even worse, we have refused to teach it in our schools, millions of people believe this version of events. In fact, they swear by it.

We cannot keep holding grudges as if other people do not have their own grudges that they have let go for the peace and unity of this country called Nigeria.

My great uncle, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, was shot and killed in the street by Major Chris Anuforo on January 15, 1966. Ironically, I went to school with Anuforo’s son. Should the Itsekiris carry a grudge forever?

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was shot on the street like a common criminal by Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna. Ifeajuna tried to deny it, and claimed that Alhaji Balewa died from an asthma attack, until his body was taken to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital and examined by the then minister for health, Dr. Moses Majekodunmi. It was established that the body was riddled with bullets in a front page story in Daily Times, written by Segun Osoba, who later became the Governor of Ogun. He is still alive.

This was an incorruptible gentleman. He lived a very ascetic life. Materialism was FAR from him. He was an author. His book, Shaihu Umar, was the first novel written in Hausa. He surrounded himself with Southerners (in hindsight, was that a mistake?). His best friend was Matthew Mbu. Should the Tafawa-Balewa family and the people of Bauchi, where he was from, hold a grudge forever?

I could go on and on and list the people killed on January 15, 1966, and the identities of their killers, but that would just be reopening old wounds. These are historical facts, which some people deny and pretend as if the Civil War happened in a vacuum.

So, please let us stop pretending as if General Gowon is an 'evil' man that needs to be 'forgiven' for igniting a war.

The Nigerian Civil War was ignited by a series of unfortunate events that began with the cold blooded murder of 22 people from the Northern, Western, and Mid Western regions by people of Eastern region origin, which led to a counter coup by Northern Nigerian military officers on July 29, 1966, and the unfortunate pogrom of 66-67.

All of the people who committed murders on January 15, 1966 were Igbos of either Eastern Nigerian origin, or of Midwest extraction in the case of Chukwuma Nzeogwu.

Many people now spewing vitriol against General Gowon for his role in the Nigerian Civil War conveniently forget that between August 9, 1967 and September 20, 1967, Biafran forces invaded and occupied the Midwest region, and named Albert Nwazu Okonkwo, as military Governor of the Midwest. A number of non Igbo speaking Mid-Westerners lost their lives during that Biafran occupation of the Midwest, including my relatives.

After the Midwest was liberated by forces led by colonels Murtala Muhammed and Benjamin Adekunle, more Mid-Westerners, this time those linguistically linked to the Igbo (especially in the Asaba axis), were killed.

Yet, in that same Midwest, we accepted Nigerians of Southeast origin back after the war. We did not seize their properties in the abandoned property saga that occurred in the Port Harcourt area and its environs. We let bygones be bygones.

The truth of the matter is that If the January 15, 1966 coup had never happened, it is most unlikely that the Nigerian Civil War would have occurred. The perpetrators of that coup opened a Pandora’s Box that the rest of Nigeria are still suffering from today! And now, a man who was indicted for fraud by the Pandora Papers is now trying to reopen that terrifying box.

There was wild jubilation all over Nigeria after the January 15, 1966 coup, because Nigerians believed it was a patriotic and nationalistic coup. Then the names of those killed were announced over the radio, and it was discovered that only people from the North, West and Midwest were killed, but no politician from the East was killed.

That is the remote cause of the Nigerian Civil War. We will remember it. We will also teach it to our children, so that it does not reoccur.

So, to just keep nursing grudges and reopening old wounds will do no one any good. You can bully others into submission, but you cannot do it to Reno Omokri. I know history and I am a meticulous record keeper!

The coup itself was led by Majors Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna. It was executed by the following persons:

1. Kaduna Nzeogwu
2. Emmanuel Ifeajuna
3. Timothy Onwuatuegwu
4. Adewale Ademoyega
5. Chris Anuforo
6. Humphrey Chukwuka
7. Donatus Okafor

Of these seven people, only one, Adewale Ademoyega, was non Igbo. The rest were all Igbo, although Major Nzeogwu was what was referred to at that time as Midwest Igbo (later colloquially referred to as Bendel Igbo and now as Delta Igbo). Major Donatus Okafor’s mother was Tiv. However, his father was Igbo.

Incidentally, some Igbos unwisely try to deny that Nzeogwu was Igbo, and call him ‘your South-South’ brother. Unknown to them, the more they do this, the more they make non Igbos feel that those specific Igbos who say they have learned very little since the civil war.

22 people were killed during the coup, including

1. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
2. Ahmadu Bello
3. Ahmed Ben Musa
4. Hafsatu Bello
5. Ahmed Pategi
6. Samuel Ladoke Akintola
7. Festus Okotie-Eboh
8. Brig. Samuel Ademulegun
9. Brig. Zakariya Maimalari
10. Col. Ralph Shodeinde
11. Col. Kur Mohammed
12. Lt. Col. Abogo Largema
13. Lt. Col. James Pam
14. Lt. Col. Arthur Unegbe
15. Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke
16. Mrs Latifat Ademulegun
17. Zarumi Sardauna
18. PC Yohana Garkawa
19. Lance Corporal Musa Nimzo
20. PC Akpan Anduka
21. PC Hagai Lai
22. Philip Lewande

As is clear from the list above, none of them were from the then Eastern Nigeria except Unegbe, whose death was unplanned.

After the coup, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi took over. Rightly, or wrongly, the rest of the nation felt that a coup carried out by overwhelmingly Eastern officers, and of which the victims were entirely non Easterners, and which supplanted a Northern minority leader (Tafawa-Balewa), with an Igbo leader, (Aguiyi-Ironsi) was a set up.

However, Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi’s promise to try the coup plotters placated the rest of the country. Sadly, the plotters were jailed, but were never tried. And the immediate cause of the July 29, 1966 counter coup was when rumours circulated that the coup plotters had been receiving full salaries in jail and were to be promoted.

These are facts that we all should address, rather than playing the victim and acting as if General Gowon committed a crime for which he should be forgiven. Gowon is a hero! And if we do not learn from our history, there is every possibility that another war might erupt in Nigeria.

The Biafrans inflicted a very harsh occupation on present day Rivers, Cross Rivers and Akwa-Ibom, as well as present day Delta and Edo before they were flushed out by federal forces. The Bayelsa area escaped the brunt of Biafran occupation due to the fight back from Isaac Adaka Boro. They invaded Ore and hundreds of Lukumi Yoruba soldiers and thousands of Omoluabi civilians died. There is still a Yoruba proverb about the amount of people that died in Ore. Ask a Yoruba person to tell you the meaning of ‘o le ku ija Ore'.

We have all forgiven and moved on. Yet, you want to reopen these old wounds and make them cancerous by blaming General Gowon 54 years after the war?

Reno Omokri

tundegan:
Iran should be on the lookout for the next Israeli strike coming from Nigeria.

IPOB is going to send hydrogen bomb to Iran. 😂😂😂

gimids:
Looks beautiful. But what happened to our national stadium

It’s not owned by Lagos State, is it?

babasolution:
Many will be shocked beyond words that TINUBU will complete 8 years without a single tangible project.He did it in Lagos ,he is doing it in Nigeria. LAGOS experiences lack of development because of TINUBUs 8years and his Marshall blueprint, which is anti development but pro revenue generation.

LAGOS has zero development.
All these color trains are cosmetic,nothing great about them.Na complete waste of money n time.

LAGOS is entirely a slum.only businesses n commerce makes Lagos attractive.

Now you can go and take your merecine!!! Inugo

Fisiryorh:
Is it that a human cannot shave?....🤔

That shows your ignorance about Islam and the beard.

Fisiryorh:
Lovely...

Fake. The dead has no beard. Yahyah has beard.

The Libyans have behaved like true bandit. They are psychologically recuperating from the endless wars and banditry they have been subjected to by the Americans. Banditry is still in their blood.

43Ronin:
Nice 1 Nigeria will get there one day.
Modified- To the fools calling the Lagos one an electric train please see below

Shut up this ignorant folk. The blue line is an electric system, do you remember that? And how many ignorant folks like you will be crossing the line despite adequate warning if the heavily populated Oshodi line is electrified immediately?

Celestialsword:
Some Yoruba people have bragged about Igbo people being in Lagos, but they never knew that had it the Yoruba had not monopolised the seaport in Nigeria, no Igbo man would be in Lagos as Lagos would have turned into a graveyard.

Nigeria is a country where more than 200 million people make use of the Lagos seaport when it can be distributed among regions. There are seas with proximity to the ocean in Bayelsa, Calabar, Akwa Ibom, Warri, Anambra, Abia, and Imo, yet the Nigerian government has denied the East seaport.

Ndi Igbo being in Lagos is a plus to the Yoruba people. These Igbo people were denied seaports and forced to be in Lagos. As the highest importers in Nigeria, Ndị́ Igbo were forced to travel miles away from their homes to clear their goods. Many had lost these goods to bad federal roads in the East while bringing them down to Ịgbo land. Instead of losing goods all the time, they decided to lock up their shops in Onitsha and relocate to Lagos. Since then they are not only contributing to the IGR of Lagos, they are also developing Lagos.

Imagine a situation where Anambra or Warri, or even Abia or Akwa Ibom, have a working Seaport. Do you think our people will be trooping into Lagos? They will stay in their land and develop it.

If you take away the monopoly of seaports from Lagos, Lagos will lose its taste. That's because Igbo people will head home and replicate what you see in Lagos back home.

As an Igbo man, you must stop feeling that Yoruba people are doing you a favour because you are in Lagos. It is the other way around. You are the one doing them a favour. They connived with the Fulani to have the seaports to themselves.

When you say this they say don't you have seaport in Warri and Calabar. Funny people. This is how they do it. They will make sure you pay more if you decide to use Calabar or Warri seaports. They will also use their men in charge of those places to frustrate your goods. By the time your goods spend 6 months without clearing it, you will learn to use Lagos seaport. If you are from Warri or Calabar and you claim you have a seaport, then you are a clọ́wn.

Elochukwu Ohagi, Philosopher, Teacher and Activist, 2024.

Very unserious statement. Who stopped SE from getting its own sea port?

Isreal will soon be wiped out completely. They are a cancer to the world. They will be uprooted completely very very soon. This is a promise by the most high.

Ammmy:
Growing up, my mother did a lot of terrible things to me even till I became an adult. I'm 40 now and she's aged.

She's trying to be kind to me now and I've forgiven her or so I thought. My life didn't turn out well the way I wanted because of her curse and evil mind towards me.

She regrets everything now and I have moved on but the memories fail to leave me. I've tried as much as possible to forget those things but I can't and each time I remember them I feel this rage inside of me.

Ask her to pray for you to reverse the curse she laid on you.

mysteriousD:
Why can't u police ur border?

Because everyone is corrupt in Nigeria, from customs to police. That’s why we need social behavioural change. We are suffering from injuries inflicted on ourselves.

ogododo:
https://saharareporters.com/2024/10/11/breaking-nigerian-govt-permits-oil-marketers-bypass-nnpc-lift-petrol-directly-dangote

Subsidy rent seekers are comatose right now. Nigeria will be better in shaa Allah.

Jazakalahu khair

adanny01:
Ask yourself this question, has Tinubu paid subsidy beyond the time Buhari removed it. You cant say no, therefore subsidy was never removed By Buhari. Buhari simply budgeted up to a certain
point beyond his tenure but Tinubu who came out to say he removed it kept on paying.

Go on google, Buhari removed subsidy from June 2023. But he had no money to pay as at January 2023 in government coffers. And they owed NNPC 3 trillion in subsidy p payment.

Ykc2:
I thought tinubu removed subsidy as soon he took over from buhari? Are You guys not tired of defending this man?

Buhari removed subsidy, not Tinubu.

Ofunaofu:
So what you are implying is that because the government has failed woefully in securing our borders, it is justified for Nigerians to now buy fuel at an exorbitant price so as to discourage people from smuggling it to our neighbouring countries.
 
Honestly, I don't know the planet you emerged from with this wacked reasoning.

Yes i dont live in your planet of ignorance. If you have been in leadership you will understand. Nigerians are corrupt. Custom officers are corrupt. No money to build high walls across all our borders. Petrol will always be smuggled no matter the amount of subsidy as long as there is price differentials and the customs are corrupt without any border walls. And petrol scarcity will always persist because all the petrol for local consumption will always find their way through the borders. Now use your brain to fond a workable solution. Don’t give me idealistic answer.

na2016:
You just said rubbish. Your country has about the worst currency around its neighbours, so why won't smuggling be even more lucrative now?

Some of you talk as if you lack memory. When naira was stronger than CFA, they were smuggling petrol across the border. Because subsidy ensured a great price differential that encouraged smuggling through the borders.

ivolt:
How do you know smuggling petrol is not profitable?
Have you compared Nigeria and neighbouring countries' petrol prices?

Cement despite not being subsidized is smuggled heavily into neighbouring countries.

Stop believing the government's word without evidence.
There is more to smuggling than just subsidy.

Price differentials due to subsidy is the prime motivation for cross border smuggling of prtrol. Ask anybody on that.

stagger:
Average selling price in Nigeria's neighbours is between N1,700 and N2,000. Price is not the check here.

The only check here is that all tankers must have trackers installed on them to ensure they do not leave approved routes and that they must have adequate documentation.

That cannot happen in a deregulated system because oil marketers are profit driven and do not mind sabotaging the economy for selfish reasons. NNPC could have done that but they cannot maintain a monopoly in a deregulated system. Maintaining a marginal price difference is the answer if we cannot control our borders.

TossTos:
Gradually this is hitting 1500, I knew soon Dangote will be forced to declare the price he sells or among the independent market will reveal the secret and we'll shift the blame game to Dangote forgetting the price crude was sold to him too

I know that government could have made the price cheaper through pegging an exchange rate for sale to local refineries or selling crude cheaper locally. But they wouldn’t do it because they want to stop smuggling of refined petrol to neighbouring countries. There is no way petrol will be smuggled at 1200/litre to neighbouring countries. It is just not profitable. But government must do something quickly before they cause class suicide due to hunger and poverty. They must not also underrate the propensity to cause social unrest and revolution. They must do something quickly to reduce the pain on the people.

The man who stole our money and sold our industries for peanuts is calling another person T pain? Mtcheww’!!!! He is a murderer himself, not just a pain. How many people have died as a result of selling the industries where they worked for peanuts? Thank God Obasanjo his boss is still alive.