₦airaland Forum

resurgent2019:
Since the Federal Government's announcement about June 12 as new democracy day, i have carefully studied the reaction of Nigerians to the news. Expectedly, the igbos are upset and throwing tantrums at the yorubas, which is not new. The igbos HATE yorubas. That is a topic that has been overstretched. But we {Yorubas} need to think with our heads clear: Do we for the reason of our need to continually best the igbos and for this post humous recognition of Abiola's stolen mandate, vote in Buhari for another 4 years? Because from the reactions i have seen from Yorubas so far, we might for reason of Buhari's decision, vote for him — June 12 democracy day change is for all intent and purposes, a greek gift, meant to curry Yoruba votes for 2019.

Not to be misunderstood, i as a yoruba man feel elated and honored by Buhari's gesture {which is long overdue}, but i deem it insufficent to warrant forgiveness for the hell that Buhari has subjected Nigerians for the past 3 years. Nigerians have indeed suffered under Buhari and our right to religious freedom has been severly violated. We must as omoluabi, eschew the temptation to return the hate of our southern neighbours. I must admit that i have felt bad reading igbo comments since yesterday about this honour done yorubas, but at the same time, i cannot forget the wanton killings and economic strangulation that has taken place in Nigeria under Buhari. What is the assurance that southerners wouldnt suffer more in Buhari's 2nd term given our experience in the 1st? There must be deep introspection on whether the actions of this Government aligns with the democratic ideals of MKO Abiola and Chief Gani Fawehinmi. If we think with a clear mind, we would conclude that both Abiola and Gani will be turning in their graves on what Nigeria has become under Buhari. I would not want to go into specifics about what we have suffered, as that would obscure the substance of my message to all omoluabi.

Let me reiterate, we must not descend into the cesspool of hate with the igbos, thus losing sight of our duty as the torch bearers of democratic principles and practices in Nigeria. There is no telling the dire consequences Nigeria will face in the next 4 years under this current regime. By all standards, Abiola and Gani deserve their post humous awards and we shall not repay their due recognition with our votes.

The political space should remain open and our votes accessible to other reasonable candidates in 2019! The orchestrators of this Buhari masterstroke are our brothers and they are well known to all Yorubas. They have done well to immortalise our brothers in death BUT they should not get our votes so EASILY.

YORUBA RONU OOOOOO...

Selah.

Op, you have spoken well. But I take exception to the allegation that Ndigbo hates Yoruba's.

Social media comments cannot and should not be the yardstick for measuring the love/hate status of one tribe to or against the other. To do that is counterproductive.

Howmany characters in social media use their actual identity?
The answer is known to us all.

TylerDurden:
There are very few highly despicable and hated Nigerian politicians than Baba-Gana Kingibe and that is saying a lot for a Nigerian politician. Now this highly degenerate individual who has crawled back into the corridors of power like a sleuthing snake that he is, is being awarded an accolade that he is no way deserving of. But this after all is a Buhari govt where the owerllian rule applies that is where saints are condemned and criminals like Abacha are celebrated so it did not surprise me that a con man like Kingibe will find a place within the very heart of Buhari's govt.

This is the same Kingibe that never for once fought for the joint mandate of June 12 but rather quickly absorbed himself into the Abacha regime - the same regime that truncated that mandate.

Kingibe will disappear from Nigeria immediately after Abacha's death only to lobby his way into the Yaradua administration as SGF only to be abruptly rightfully sacked by Yaradua himself.

How does this new elevation of Kingibe to GCON benefit him? For one, he can go around parading himself as a former VP and also find his way to attend all future NEC meetings. But by far the best thing to accrue to Kingibe is that he gets to live out the rest of his degenerate hedonistic life at the expense of tax payers as he will now be entitled to annual pensions and perks that a retired VP enjoys.

Please, Op, what benefit prestigious and, or economical will the award of GCFR and GCON do to Abiola and Gani respectively now that they are long dead and to the Yoruba Nation in general?

PaChukwudi44:
So which state n Nigeria does not deserve it?

My dear, to say that all "heads are equal" is just by mouth, not in reality.

PaChukwudi44:
why should lagos be given a special status?

Because Lagos deserves it and Nigeria will be better for it.

front4line:
This is a thread to expose Igbo hate for Lagos and the Yorubas at large. You will be amazed how much they will still fall for the trick even with me making it obvious it is what the OP wanted.

Freaking hate filled tribe.

Imagine a tribe secluding a caste among its own to be hated.

Tufiaka !

No @Front4.
Lagos truly deserve special status as the foremost Nigerian commercial hub as well as west Africa.

This present administration should kindly grant Lagos this status and Nigeria will be better.

Do not be anti western Nigeria pls.

geometricaxis:
I had no intention to vote come 2019 but based on this I will vote for Buhari come 2019. Why? No country moves forward without given recognition to significant moments in it's history, especially people who died in the struggle. Buhari whether or not for political gain has corrected an anomally that will stand long after all of us are dead, whether or not his administration has been competent, this is a truly significant moment. Plus anything I can do to consign the evil that isOBJ to extinction I will do.

who cares about lagos, let lagos fix itself and the theivery and god fatherism first before looking for special status

Sorry!

I put it to you that you are not a southwesterner. If you were, you will refuse to be bribed with crumbs when you deserve real meals.

Largos' special status has enompus economic gain for the southwest. Juxtaposed with this award which benefits only Kingibe - the west loses out completely.

Now look at the fact:
Buhari will not grant special status to Lagos because that makes Lagos go far-far ahead of Kano, the commercial hub of the northern which the northerners wished can overtake Lagos.

So Buhari will hadly grant special status to lagos because of the enormous benefit but has swiftly granted a posthumous award to dead Abiola and dead Gani who will remain oblivious of the cosmetics award.
Kingibe on the other hand will be celebrating right now with his well wishers.

In a nutshell: it still victory for the north and zero to the south.

Cc. Lalasticlala, et'al

Lagos state is major commercial Hub of not only Nigeria but west Africa. The clamour for special status for Lagos has been on for a long time. Let's call on the present administration to do the needful and declare SPECIAL STATUS on Lagos through the executive bill while the NASS expedite action in passing the bill with speed of light.

I hereby call on all well meaning sons and daughters of southwestern Nigeria to unite in calling on this Buhari/Osibanjo-led Federal government to do this and obtain the support of the southwest.

geometricaxis:
Buhari did not give the award because he has any love for gani or MKO. you read between the lines and read again what I wrote, the is a battle for the SW as well as a battle to to take on OBJ and IBB. This has Jagaban written all over it.


Who cares about Kinigbe, he is an irrelevance.

I agree with you on the battle for Southwest. But will the southwesterners be deceived now to take this move as a reasonable incentive from buharis Government to give him the unflinching support??

No no!.

What the southwesterners must get, which they truly deserve is THE GRANTING OF SPECIAL STATUS TO LAGOS AS THE REAL COSMOPOLITAN CITY IN NIGERIA.

Anything short of this is not of any benefit the southwest and they should not be deceived with little award that stands the risk of being revoked in near future.

geometricaxis:
The most that will happen is an amendment to the act to explicitly allow post humous awards, No sane judge will declare this illegal

See, an amendment even if effected cannot operate retrospectively. The law does not operate retrospectively. Note that.

geometricaxis:
Kinigbe is an irrelevance in this move, this move is from Jagaban to diminish both OBJ and IBB (who annulled the election) both of whom are joining forces against Buhari. OBJ electricity probe, Saraki armed robbery suspects, now National award to Gani and MKO and you are talking about Kinigbe?

Read between the lines. Abiola and Gani no longer has anything to gain is this awards. But Kingibe has a lot to gain. The award giver did it because he knows who the true beneficiary is.

geometricaxis:
Agbakogba will not because he wants to be president and he wont want to alienate the SW, Ozekhome may but no judge will rule in his favour because of the political implications. The law is ambiguous enough for the supreme court to err on the side of caution. Like it or not a precedent has been set, national awards will henceforth be granted post-humously.

Your point is noted. But do not forget that the law is an ass. It mustn't be during Buharis regime, but, judicial pronouncements will be made to correct this anomaly.

geometricaxis:
how?

Dear, Kingibe is the only living beneficiary of these awards to Abiola (GCFR); Kingibe (GCON) and Gani (GCON).

Let it dawn on you that the dead has nothing to benefit from this cosmetics of awards. But, your guess is as good as mine: Kingibe will reap much much benefit from it.

geometricaxis:
let us see the person who will go to court to challenge the legality or otherwise of this award or the judge that will declare it illegal

You know there such people. e.g Agbakoba, Ozekohme...

three:
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The only award that is designated as able to be given post humously is the Nigeria Star

(Reference - National Honours Act).

This does not mean the president could not have introduced an executive bill to amend the act prior.

Anyways those who want to eat dodo will eat dodo regardless.

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Ps you CANNOT use executive orders to amend acts of Parliament - this just goes to show how the National Assembly is derided.

This post below nails it!

IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED, THE TRUE BENEFICIARY OF THIS BUHARIS POLITICAL MOVE IS KINGIBE. PERIOD.

What say you:
LZAA, IMHOTEP, ZOMBIETAMER,

Madridguy, Ngeneukwenu, devilson

eodavids:
The June 12, 1993 is a popular date in Nigeria's history, following the winning and annulling of the Moshood Kashimowo Abiola-won election.

Abiolas running mate had been Babagana Kingibe.

Fast forward to now: Abiola has been put out of the way long ago in Nigerian politics. But Kingibe is here with us.

Now that the Buhari-led federal governed have chosen to revert democracy day to June 12; I THINK KINGIBE SHOULD BE CONGRATULATED, BEING THE LIVING BENEFICIARY OF THIS POLITICAL POINT SCORED BY THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.

Cc. Lalasticlala, Mynd44

The June 12, 1993 is a popular date in Nigeria's history, following the winning and annulling of the Moshood Kashimowo Abiola-won election.

Abiolas running mate had been Babagana Kingibe.

Fast forward to now: Abiola has been put out of the way long ago in Nigerian politics. But Kingibe is here with us.

Now that the Buhari-led federal governed have chosen to revert democracy day to June 12; I THINK KINGIBE SHOULD BE CONGRATULATED, BEING THE LIVING BENEFICIARY OF THIS POLITICAL POINT SCORED BY THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.

jogojogo:
God will punish any Southerner that will vote for Buhari in this forthcoming election.
How is anti-grazing law the reason for these crises? Wasn't the anti-grazing law initiated because of the unabated killings?
Now I know the issue of herdsmen is an Agenda

Don't be too hard on yourself.

Do you think Benue people have seen the MORNING such that they themselves won't return the government they installed previously?

Ask George Akume and his bandwagon, you will be surprised. So do not even talk about south.

Do not forget that Benue is nothoo!!!

Campusity:
This call may encourage those who do not like a law legitimately set up to resort to violence to arm twist the government into rescinding it.

The simple solution is to let those aggrieved challenge it in law courts or through lobbying their compatriots.

Government should not be seen as being awed. My 2 cents.

Why don't you allow Omenkalives to comment first?

proudevil:
wailer the schools were abandoned towards the ends of jej's tenure,majority of teachers employed by that phony govt were not paid..history don't lie.

Obviously you are out of tune with reality.

Too much lie has beclouded your sense of reasoning. If you are in tune with reality, you would have read the comment by the respected and outspoken northern elder states man YAKASSAI who lamented how the Almajiri schools built in northern Nigeria by Jonathan and also the Federal universities established under Jonathan have all been abandoned and refused funding by the APC-led federal government.

Am sure even if you read that, you have the capability to unread it as a zombie.

I wish you quick recovery from your ailment.

Amagite2:
From; Amagitesblog.com

Year after year, Forbes features some of the brightest young leaders, entrepreneurs and billionaires under the 30 Under 30 list across various continents.

This year, over 90 people made the Forbes Africa 2018 list spanning across Business, Technology and Creatives.

As such, 13 Nigerians made the list including Wizkid, his ex-girlfriend Tania, Davido, Bidemi Zakariyau, Beverly Naya and Adebayo Oke-Lawal.

She has now taken to Instagram to make an emotional post in celebration. Read below...

"I made Forbes guys Small Girl with a very big God! I still can’t believe it. For years I would talk about how I wanted to be on Forbes before I was 30, at the beginning of this year especially when I set my goals for the year, being on Forbes was one of them. And less than 6 months later, Boom Tania is on the 30 under 30 list. To think Ziva is only a year and 5 months old is actually insane. I’ve worked sooooo hard building my business and to be recognized by Forbes is such a blessing. I quit my 9-5 job with confidence 2 months after I started Ziva because I knew I had Ziva to fall back on but never in a million years did I think we would have come this far by now. I started Ziva with a pop up, after which I continued to sell the clothes from my house. I would pack all he clothes in my boot just in case anyone ordered anything so I could deliver it from wherever i was. I literally did everything myself for the first few months, I didn’t hire any staff until about 5 months into the business. I remember when I wanted to start so many people discouraged me, they said things like : “So many people are into fashion”, “You studied advertising at university what do you know about fashion” , “This is a bad idea, you cannot be Africa’s Zara or H&M” amongst so many other things. But God sent me an angel in my friend Kiki who held my hand and taught me everything I needed to know to start a business in fashion and a year and a half later here we are. I can confidently say I am living my dreams and my best life! I love being Iya Ziva it’s one of my biggest blessings and Definitely my biggest accomplishment so far. Thank you to everyone that has supported my business and I. I will forever be grateful
P.S please do not ever give up on your dreams!!!! Do not ever let anyone tell you that you can’t do something!"

https://www.amagitesblog.com/2018/06/wizkids-ex-tania-omotayo-goes-emotional-as-she-makes-forbes-africas-30-under-30-list.html

This girl just FINE

proudevil:
which correction?go to the north and see your so called almajiri schools shio

You have a point on this: the Gej-built Almajiri schools have been abandoned by the current administration so as not to boost Gej's image.

But will you not be human enough to say it loud that the Buhari led government's refusal to carry on where Jonathan stopped is bad for our country

Had Buhari continued funding the Almajiri institution/schools, you wouldn't have complained about their present condition. However, do you still blame Gej for Buhari's failures?
Or would you Jonathan come to the schools now and continue running them?
My bros, if you will not call spade a spade, (I am sorry, but) I will call you a "zombie"

proudevil:
The Christians don't hate Muslims,its all politics pmb is their perceived enemy,when jej was busy dolling out dollars for those supposed men of god ,there was nothing like christianization, what about the jet with 9m that was owned by the bling bling pastor,the pastors that were taken to Jerusalem for special prayers for jej's re_election,I can go on and on but I pity this indomie generation they only think with their anus, they don't ask questions, its all about my pastor says, my tribe, he is from my village..bunch of lazy yoots.

You won't mention the Almajiri institutions Gej built and funded to give more civilization and opportunity to the less privileged northern/Muslim sons.

You are biased to have stated this comment about Gej as if he favoured Christians above Muslims.

Correct yourself now

deji17:
Police recruitment: PSC speaks on candidates ‘writing exam in Arabic

Published on May 30, 2018 By Seun Opejobi

The Police Service Commission, PSC, has reacted to rumour that candidates participating in ongoing recruitment into the force wrote examination in Arabic.


Outgoing PSC Chairman, Mike Okiro insisted that the assessment was only based on aptitude and language test under the heading, “English Language test for 45 minutes”.

He explained, in a statement, that JAMB customized platform contained skeletons of other 22 subjects offered by the board.


The statement, which was signed by Okiro, read, “The instructions were that candidates should answer the questions in that section alone.

“On completion of the 45 minutes test, any candidates who rolled down would come across subjects listed in alphabetical order of the 23 subjects with the first 3 being Agriculture, Arabic and Arts.”

He dismissed as false the claim that “180 questions (instead of 60) were to be answered in English, Agriculture, Arabic and Arts in 45 minutes!!!


“The only Nexus among the three is letter ‘A’. The Nigeria Police Force does not require Agriculture, Arabic or Arts.



“No candidate was ever required to answer questions or assessed on any of the three subjects as shown by the results already released,” the PSC boss asserted.

dailypost.ng/2018/05/30/police-recruitment-psc-speaks-candidates-writing-exam-arabic/

This supposed clarification is so incoherent and obfuscating.

Pls, Mr okiro or PSC try again, but more intelligently. Do not adumbrate the matter further.

sarrki:
Omockery I didn’t like saraki

I respect Gej for his singular act of relinquishing power to Pmb without any bloodshed

Having said that politics did not begin and end with Gej and Pmb in Nigeria

So enough of this party politics card

We have Pmb now

2019 is around the corner so do the magic and shut up

Wow!

Even Sarrki now makes sense

PrettyCrystal:
This is new but awesome. An American citizen arrived Nigeria to wed his beautiful Hausa lady whom he has never met before in his life. According to trending reports, the couple had been dating each other online for two years after meeting themselves on social media but have never met physically before the man landed in Abuja and headed to Kano to seal the union.

The man reportedly embraced Islam and had his name changed to Musa as he tied the knot traditionally last week in the presence of family and friends.

Congratulations to the new and lovely couple. We wish them the best in their marriage.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/06/american-man-lands-in-kano-to-wed-hausa-bride-whom-he-has-never-met-photos.html

This is an Arabian, not American.

Call spade spade, records must be straight

BoneBlogger:
Dora Akunyili’s Daughter & Her Canadian Husband Arrive Nigeria For Wedding. PICS


Chidiogo, the daughter of former NAFDAC boss and erstwhile minister of information, late Prof Dora Nkem Akunyili has arrived her hometown in Anambra state with her Canadian husband and family after tying the knot legally in court some months ago abroad.

Yesterday, the gala night was held with lots of Igbo traditional entertainers and masquerades thrilling the Canadian in-laws as Chidiogo Akunyili will today exchange nuptial vows with her hubby, Andrew David Parr.

Chidiogo Akunyili will hold white and traditional weddings tomorrow Saturday 2nd June 2018 at her home in Nneogidi village, Agulu in Anaocha LGA, Anambra State.


Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/06/dora-akunyilis-daughter-chidogo-set-to-wed-in-anambra-state.html

Traditional marriage (customary marriage) in Nigeria by a non-Nigerian husband is a nullity. Their white wedding will stand as a marriage in compliance with the Marriage Act, thus valid.

yarimo:
Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew

You don't want good thing?

Be positive na, or are you anti Ekiti?

dat9jaguy:
Abeg who takes Jonathan serious.
Even out of power that guy still dey confused.
We don suffer for Niger delta.

Did you really read the case study statement of Mr. Akufo Ado?

If you did, you must agree with Gej, the man made a jest of Nigeria to the world

LZAA:
Hope so too

The 'agenda' allegation should no be trueoooo

LZAA:
didn't d daura overlord employ 91 ppl for dss from katsina
isn't d army insignia in arabic?
anything is possible

I wish its not true, because such portends great injustice and nepotistic evil