₦airaland Forum

Ediss:
What is black about the Friday

Haha. Actually the history is very mundane. Companies make more sales during the holiday periods (from after thanksgiving all the way to Christmas eve) and thus their financial standings are " in the black" or profitable, rather than being "in the red", or a loss. The huge sales come from reduced prices.

Thus, Black Friday arose from an accounting idiom for when many companies make brisk sales.

This man needs to get serious.

alcmene:
Fayose the hero of democracy

Not according to the infamous Ekiti Tapes.

macfarland:
Well the agitation for Biafra is right and not against the law of any land.

It becomes against the law the moment you threaten war and violence, or when you impede the natural activities of others. Everyone has the same rights you claim.

macfarland:
Biafra has protested in 102 countries so far plus Abuja Nigeria.

immigrant igbos protesting in host countries does not count as international support.

macfarland:
It's simple a step in affirmation of right for self determination as enshrined in the United Nation charter.

The UN Charter does not supersede the Nigerian Constitution where secession, sedition, treason, threats of insurrection, and violent protests are against the law.

macfarland:
The new resolve for Biafra is total escalated by Buhari style of divide and rule system.

You divided yourselves when you rejected him at the polls, and he rules because, well...with or without your votes he's the president!

macfarland:
GEJ in his wisdom ignore Nnamdi Kanu and went ahead to try to balance the heterogeneous country like Nigeria by holding a sovereign national conference which was successful.

1. The issue of secession was declared NO GO AREA by GEJ before the conference even began, so Biafra was not even an item on the agenda.

2. The report was mere lip service since GEJ himself had no intention of implementing it. The issue of resource control that dominated the conference held significance only to the Niger Deltans, who most assertively are NOT igbos.

macfarland:
But Buhari in his military mentality and with the support of some Yorubas threw this report and implementation to the dust bin.

The Hausa-Fulani and the Yorubas represent a significant chunk of the country. If the majority tossed out the report then it stands to reason the majority does not consider the report worthy. In every democracy majority carries the vote.

macfarland:
Buhari appointment awakened the consciousness of most southerners that this is not one Nigeria.

Your decision to reject him at the polls invalidated any claims to his favors bar what is constitutionally obligatory. You should've thought things through before you placed all your eggs in one basket and handed said basket to GEJ, whom all visible signs show was on his way out as far back as 2013.

macfarland:
The feeling and resolved to get out of a country u are not considered in d the scheme of things became unquenchable for many in the south.

When you hate said country with all your miserable heart, calling its leader dull, its landmass a zoo, and its citizens animals, what do you expect? Who would consider secessionists as partners in nation-building? You are not stakeholders in the Nigerian project; you therefore deserve no stakes. You people segregated yourselves politically and economically, braying for your mythical Biafra.

macfarland:
It is no longer about oil.

It never was for us. It is for you. It's not even your oil. Besides, at the give-away price of $40 per barrel that oily sludge is essentially worthless.

macfarland:
A lot people 'will say take the oil and give me Biafra'

Are you trying to buy off Nigerian land and convert to Biafra with cheap oil that's not even yours?

macfarland:
because Biafra now stands for freedom.... A sense of belonging.

hahahahahahahaha......

macfarland:
If a person want something u want to tell him to come to Abuja or Lagos something that can be gotten at his own backyard.

This is just silly, and a poor excuse for secession. The world over government facilities are situated at the capital, the seat of government. Why would a ministry be built in Abia when government is in Abuja? What purpose would it serve? Or are there any federal government bodies in Ekiti or Jigawa? If you're complaining about foreign embassies and Missions, well that is entirely at the discretion of the the guest country where they site their facilities. Usually it's always close to government and secure locations.

macfarland:
Some government strategic jobs and portfolio are reserved for a particular section of country.

And some are equally reserved for others

macfarland:
Call a security meeting of the Nigerian nation today and u will see how the southeast are totally excluded from the army, Navy, airforce, SSS, police, common civil defense, etc.

You people decided business is your calling. Was any igbo who's qualified turned away at NDA? Police College? No! Or are you expecting free positions in the armed forces? You suffer your own choices.

macfarland:
In the helm of affairs of the National oil for where? Where do u see Ibo people.

Leave spare parts business and go into oil and gas. Shikenna. Besides, Diezani and kachikwu are Delta igbos.

macfarland:
This was d order of things in during the military rule.

Military rule was a government of force, secured by the gun. Ironically the first ever coup in Nigeria was by igbos. Remember Ironsi and his boy Nzeogwu? You people set that train in motion.

macfarland:
With the way things are right a Nigerian of Igbo extraction can never win an election in Nigeria nation meaning that an Igbo can never become President.

Not with your violent hatred, separatist mindset, bigotry, unpatriotism, and general disposition to violence. If and when a charismatic, detribalized and patriotic igbo emerges, we the MAJORITY might consider him. Even GEJ became president precisely because the northern elite in PDP wanted him to. But as long as democracy is a game of numbers, we the majority will always have our way. No one will hand you the presidency on a platter of gold just because you're igbo; you've to earn it. To earn it, you've to commit to one Nigeria. Not this attitude of claiming allegiance to a phantom country and still wanting to play ball in Nigeria.

macfarland:
What a way to isolate a people using a powerful orchestrated techniques of voters figure.

You dont seriously consider yourselves more populous than the Northerners, do you? Or the northerners and westerners combined?

macfarland:
Now in democracy GEJ tried to balance some of these injustice during his administration but Buhari government just turned a sleeping dog upside down in a democracy not considering the complexities of d Nigerian state.

This is utter rubbish. Just because GEJ named some igbos into positions of authority? Pray tell, what did those influential igbos do to help your plight and cause? Did Odua, Anyim, Ihejirike et al lay one single meter of road in the East? Why would Buhari embrace you lot when you outrightly rejected him, called him names? Here you're, protesting just 6 MONTHS into his presidency. You didnt even give him time to name a cabinet before you started chanting ZOO and BIAFRA all over the damn place.

macfarland:
The quest for Biafra is seen as the only way out by its people both small and might... The youth and old. Those close to government circle like governors and ezes or the Ohanezes will never support Biafra in the public but d truth truth be told they are Biafra at heart and secretly.

As long as they didnt use their influence or considerable wealth to assist in developing your region, your claims are false wishful thinking.

macfarland:
The Hausa Fulani will fight to kill... The Yorubas will hate and aid the Northerners.... Army will kill.... Police will maim.... Nnamdi Kanu may be killed.... Many may as well die... But d soul of Biafra will never die again. There is no going back. The fight for freedom will take a lot of struggle but not long for Biafra to come. It will happen like a dream to even the Biafrans. All hail Biafra!

This is the same argument Ojukwu used in the 1960s to lure you zombies into a disastrous misadventure. When the poo hit the fan, he scarpered out of Nigeria, laid low for a while, came back.....and tried to be president of nigeria! oh, the sweet irony!

You see, you're not fooling anyone but yourselves. You've mentioned Buhari 4 times, making your Biafra agitation a purely political affair fueled by the loss of GEJ, a man who since has moved on and left you misguided people stuck in a rut.

From the very moment Nigeria gained independence, you people became irritants and nuisances, leading to a war that decimated your number. But did you learn from that sad history? No. Thus here you are, condemned to repeat that sordid history

It's indeed a collective shame that in 55 years, you people are still on the same path of self destruction. It is even worse that the recent catalyst for your inevitable combustion is a young brat from britain, safely cocooned and isolated from real happenings in Nigeria, who knows neither the sufferings of 1966-1970, nor the pains of 1980-2015, but whom you follow with all the blind devotion of a delusional zealot.

This is not collective destiny; it is collective madness.

holyFRED:
Can a currently jobless nurse with a 'fail' certificate work here as a nurse?

employ a doctor with a fail or unsatisfactory result in this 'world class' hospital as the OP called it

who in their right minds would employ failed doctors and nurses? You want people to die?

holyFRED:
Can a currently jobless nurse with a 'fail' certificate work here as a nurse?

Rather than employ a doctor with a fail or unsatisfactory result in this 'world class' hospital as the OP called it

who in their right minds would employ failed doctors and nurses? You want people to die?

mykel231:
This Boko Haram ravaged almajiri is even talking.Dirty things!

smh

INTROVERT:
like his northern collegues; he supports them secretly and opposes them publicly..

Are you nuts?!

Who the hell in the north supports biafra?

We quashed it before, and we'll do it again.

Idle girl.

Booyakasha:
You see, Islam is the worst thing that has ever happened to planet earth.

.....and there isn't a damn thing you or anyone can do about it.

Iykopee:
This is not a battle of supremacy between APC and PDP, but a matter of national interest for our benefit and trivialities shudnt get involved having read ur import. Ordinarily, i wudn't have been on dazuki's side if it wasn't an act of witchhunting to bring him down @ all cost. Now dazuki is ready for the crazy dance and i'm totally in support of that. We all deserve to know what transpired in the arms purchase deal and all conspirators involved in fraudulent and criminal act named publicly.

Why must we term everything as witch-hunting? Every single person with a probable case to answer resorts to that fallout shelter of "witch-hunting". And the chorus echoes back the same lame sentiments.

This is just like every murder suspect claiming insanity.

And you say it with such vigor as if it's proven already beyond a doubt that Dasuki is witch hunted. This line of argument has already betrayed your mindset.

$2b not lump sum. Part of it ended up in south africa on the plane of a certain pastor.

Also, $1b was requested by Mr GEJ which was approved by the NASS ostensibly to purchase arms.

Also, every year since 2011 almost a trillion naira was budgeted as defense expenditures.

Dasuki and GEJ....where's our money?

Iykopee:
When u implore every means to nail a man, if he has a way out dont expect him to fold his hands which exactly is what dazuki is doing. The issue of national interest has be rubbished by the prosecutors. It's now a game of letting it out for public consumption or dazuki is innocent. I earnestly urge him to resist every attempt to secret trial.

Unfortunately your idea of democracy also takes into cognizance matters of national interest. I doubt there's any judge no matter how tainted with corruption who'd halt Dasuki's trial, secret or otherwise.

Like i keep telling you, we have laws, like every other civilized nation, that guarantee and safeguard the need for state secrecy in matters of defense.

I take it for granted you're pro PDP.

You people seem to be always on the side of wrong, shielding all the frauds and crooks who reigned supreme during PDP: Diezani, Dasuki, Saraki.

If this is your idea of opposition, siding with crooks, i wonder how party can convince Nigerians to give PDP another chance.

chocolateme:
It's as if theses terrorists we're triggered by something all over the world.
Let there be PEACE.




FTC
Chocolate cream

Terrorists operate on the basis of their own ideological parameters, which are at variance with all known tenets of reason and commonsense. They're nihilistic and fatalistic, so dont even bother trying to understand their destructive beliefs.

But at the same time the western powers and their power play especially in matters of the middle east are not helping matters. Obama and NATO armed ISIS in the name of fighting Syria's Assad, just as they armed the rebels in Libya to fight Gaddafi, and the Mujaheddin who later became the Taliban.

Obama boasted of "degrading" ISIS, but all he seemed to have accomplished was to offer free publicity and thus swelled their ranks.

The US, NATO and the UN are better off aligning with Assad to fight ISIS, rather than arming so called nationalists who always become insurgents unwilling to let go of their arms.

Iykopee:
^^^ If it was convenient for buhari stooges to go all out with fictitious claims indicting dazuki of embezzling funds earmarked for arms procurement in public thereby tarnishing dazuki's personality, then they shudn't be allergic to having an open trial since national interests was initially jettisoned by accusing dazuki of thievery on the pages of newspapers . Since they were first to spill the beans, it is considerate to let it all out by dazuki for public records and interests. Shikena!

The government owes its people a duty to inform them about matters of public interest, such as arresting a POI of the caliber of Dasuki. It wouldnt do to just simply arrest him without informing the people of at least the broader reasons, such as fraud. However the details of the transactions of accusations which would be revealed at trial are not in the public interest. Matters of national security which, if publicized, might give our enemies an upper hand are best kept secret.

All state security agencies worldwide are granted a certain measure of discretion and secrecy. Tell of one instance where a country's criminal trials on matters of national defense and security are publizied.

As i said, Dasuki will have legal representation.

Iykopee:
Dazuki shud insist on open trial in the court for the interest of our fledgling democracy... Bullhary has sometin to hide little wonder the kangaroo panel is insisting on having secret trial

As i replied to someone earlier, no country conducts trials or hearings bordering on national security in the open. The issues involve 3rd party arms vendors and facilitators that must remain secret, as well as the methods, channels, and sources of funds for such transactions.

Its not in the national interest to lay all bare just to appease people like you.

helpee:
you are so funny. Dasuki should only spill beans to a secret panel while Femi adesina should keep prosecuting him on the pages of the newspaper. Can you show us the evidence he was invited not the noise from the anonymous source in the useless article? Did you hear that Dasuki kept shouting he want to be prosecuted openly but FG kept insisting on secret trial while damaging his person daily on the pages of newspapers . By the time he release the names of book haram sponsors for all to see, you will know nobody is interested in your witch hunting panel

In matters of national security secret trials are in order. Even the documents taht would later be declassified would have some parts redacted. You dont prosecute a former National Security Adviser with all the can of worms involved in the open.

Secret trial does not mean he wont have legal representation.

ify2016:
Good President. Hope previous rulers are seeing the handwork of a good leader. More are yet to come.

Goes all the way back to when PAN was first set up. But for this particular build, GEJ actually deserves the credit.

cramjones:
Last year we had a Nigerian fighter pilot - Wg Cdr Hedima, captured, tortored and beheaded by Boko Haram. Our then President never said a word, in fact the Nigerian Air Force denied they ever knew the late Hedima. Today, we have 105 soldiers kidnapped and again we have a president that is yet to utter a word! In many countries this is an art of war! I should expect 70% of the Nigerian Air Force by now on a bombing campaign, I would expect the President on National TV in front of local and internal press addressing the situation and showing the world how strong and determined we are to route out terrorist. Yet, all we see is citizens doing what we can do best on social media.

We had an utterly destructive president in the name of GEJ. President Buhari must not turn out like him, there must be true CHANGE. We are either a country or we are not. We are not a country if 105 service men are captured without a word or action from the President. Imagine that Boko Haram overtook ISIS as the deadliest terror group in the world, and yet imagine the coalition and the number of bombs that have landed ISIS territory. Are we still a country! President Buhari must smell the coffee and wake up!

God Bless the Nigerian Armed Forces!

-CramJones

We dont have the full details yet, but i quite agree with you.

I root for PMB, but his refusal to address the nation himself and assure us at this trying times is frightening. Garba Shehu and Adesina are mere hirelings whose voices carry no weight.

Please PMB, face the people and appeal to their empathy and patience, do not leave them with this strange dearth of information.

chukwudi44:
Bros further investigations will prove of indeed the former service chiefs did acknowledge receipts of this weapons,where it is and if it was contained in the list of equipments handed over to the new service chiefs!! So both the serving and former service chiefs will also be questioned before we get the whole truth about this matter!!

If it was included in the handover notes by the immediate past service chiefs to their successors which they acknowleged receipt and now it suddenly gets missing,the new service chiefs will have questions to answer

Are under a shade near Ma Chukwudi's bush meat shop taking a breather from your pointless IPOB march to type this?

stixz:
I'm using infinix hot note running on latest lollipop. Anytime I put any of my sim on 3g only it won't display any service and I'm in an area with strong network(mtn and glo) this was d reason I upgraded to lollipop cos it was d same back on kitkat.someone should pls help.

Is it a dual sim?

Either you placed your sim on the 2G-only tray, or your phone is 2g only. or you can try another sim from a different operator.

lastjudge:
this is wat Odin3 display when it Failed

<ID:0/004> Added!!
<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..
<OSM> Binary Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..
<OSM> Please wait..
<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..
<OSM> Leave CS..
<ID:0/004> Odin engine v(ID:3.1100)..
<ID:0/004> File analysis..
<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/004> Initialzation..
<ID:0/004> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/004> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/004> SingleDownload.
<ID:0/004> sbl1.mbn
<ID:0/004> NAND Write Start!!
<ID:0/004> FAIL! (Auth)
<ID:0/004>
<ID:0/004> Complete(Write) operation failed.
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

2. this is wat my phone display>> 1% level with display of "MMC Write fail" "SW REV CHECK FAIL : [sb1]fused 2> Binary 1

ODIN cannot write to NAND because the internal memory block (mmc 0) is corrupted and thus non-writable. For all intents and purposes, that's a hardware brick.

ArodeTsolaye:
oduarewastan where starvation will be the order of the day as there will be no more oil.

Excuse me, we do not eat crude oil.

In case you do not know WE farm the food YOU eat, which you obviously wash down with your oil.

Ioannes:
the only blunder they committed was to resurrect the Biafra ghost after Jonathan lost.

bad losers.

they have shown other Nigerians that they can't be trusted with power and they may have to wait another hundred years for a shot at the presidency.

Bravo.

One like.

lordofjustice:
Yes, the previous administration signed the agreement and that administration is implicated in this case but this present government that implemented the TSA without review equally has questions to answer.

GEJ tenure employed some people in DSS which was later disregarded by this same administration. There have been probes upon probes , reviews upon reviews on some actions and inactions of past administration including the current Col Dasuki arm purchase; so the question is: What stopped PMB to review this TSA as he has been probing and reviewing others before going ahead to implement. PMB administration is implicated too.

This is much ado about nothing. The roughly 2 trillion so far recovered were in danger of disappearing, and spending just 1% to recover 99% is small pill to swallow. In any case the 1% fee doesnt whole-hog go to Systemspecs alone; the CBN and banks involved in the process share it.

I think the problem lies more with the CBN. The lack of information right from GEJ's days laid the foundation for this muck. And when the PDP latched on to the non-issue, the CBN should've been quick with detailed information about the whole arrangement. Sanusi was instrumental in selling the REMITA app to GEJ, and the same CBN now should have reviewed the agreement before implementation when Buhari gave the directive to mop up funds spread across gargantuan accounts.

Perhaps the FG is satisfied with the 1% as good value for the service rendered.

I dont think the whole REMITA issue is deserving of the undue attention PDP and their cohorts saraki/melaye are rendering it, because there're more pressing matters facing the APC and Nigeria as a whole.

Boko Haram and IPODS are threatening Nigeria's existence, ISIS is mentioning Nigeria after the Paris attacks, fuel is artificially scarce, dollar is rising, jobs are nowhere, electricity is going back to its old ways, crime is rising.....but the national issue is REMITA.

All the people PDP is supporting are turning out to have more than skeletons in the cupboard.

Instead of working to divest itself of the old stigma of corruption which led to its downfall, PDP is instead, sadly, choosing to fight APC on the basis of supporting odious fellows with more than many cases to answer. I hope this episode compels the PDP to better choose its poster boys to represent its pitiful state of opposition.

I also hope this revelation will finally put paid to the unnecessary and diversionary TSA non-issue that PDP is flogging to the high heavens.

xtrorse:
Hypocritical liar, who are 'we'?
Every other thing you stated is just silly rants from a confused, deluded mind.

However, here is a list of some of your greedy kinsmen who looted and ruined the fortune of this country. And this is your idea of 'One Nigeria' where you persistently rob Peter to perennially pay parasitic Paul, and still continue to spill innocent blood to maintain the status quo in the polity.

You fuccking piece of sh1t igbo bastard.

Copying and pasting that foolish list means nothing. If you igbo fucctards wanna go, please do. We're tired of your armed robbery, kidnapping, baby factories, scams, and fake goods.

Go to your nonsense biafra if you can. we cant wait for the war to start so we can finish all you pigs.

foolish ugly flat head yellow baboons.

masterpower:
Yes, its time for us to bring the zoo down on its knees.
We are arranging the greatest Hackactivist network in the world. We have the people and we have the technology know how.

There is a new dimmenssion to the activities of biafran declaration.

WTF is "Hackactivist" ?

oh, you mean hacktivist?

dumb motherfuccker.

JustOzito:
If u can give me concrete yet convincing reasons y as a biafran I have to drop the idea of freedom, show me with facts the benefits of nigeria to an igbo man, so far how the northerners have tried their best to sustain the one nigeria slogan and mention any equal federal project within the major regions in Nigeria.
I promise to drop anything about biafra and also to preach one nigeria even in the face of death.

in 16 years of democracy the north was in power for a very brief 2 years. That means your southern compatriots held power for 14 years, 6 of which were by your igbo brother GEJ. During GEJ's time Nigeria had more income than ever in history. Therefore, the north was in no position of influence in our recent history.

Within those 14 years our poverty was increased, our military officers were purged in mass, our region was ignored, and Boko Haram was allowed to fester and run wild killing thousands......but we never attempted to secede.

All over the north igbos are flourishing, owing billion naira businesses and homes. Same in the southwest, igbos are making money and owning property.

igbos are not denied education, aspirations, freedoms and rights. So on what basis are you hanging this "slavery" mantra?


If indeed you people are held in bondage, where would you find grounds to brag about owning nigerian business riches?

you're at liberty to demand for biafra, but you've no right to claim any inch of nigerian soil as a foreign country. Otherwise we shall let loose the dogs of war and history will repeat itself.

mrkels:
In February 2013, Vertu launched the Vertu Ti, the first Vertu handset to use an Android operating system, followed in June 2014, by Signature Touch.[12] The Signature Touch's price ranged $10,300/€7,900 for the base model to maximum price of $21,900/€16,900 for the Pure Jet Red Gold.

Wiki

I dont know what your point is, but i'm assuming you're thinking the Vertu Ti is the first Vertu smartphone because it runs Android.

Wrong.

Go read further down on the wikipedia page you quoted, it says:

"The Quest is the first smartphone by Vertu, equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard made from sapphire sculpted keys. This was followed by Constellation in 2011 which was the company's first touchscreen model."

The Quest ran Symbian OS and looked like a Nokia E72 or an early Blackberry. Android isnt the only smartphone OS.

None of the phones on the table in the picture the OP posted has a touchscreen or Qwerty. Thus, it's not the Ti or the Touch.

FriedPlantain:
Op is obviously misinformed or just ignorant. That Otedola's "small phone" will conveniently buy hundred of your phones with enough change still remaining.

Those phones you are seeing cost over 2 million naira each. The name of the phone is called Vertu

Actually the op is right. He said "smartphone"

If those are Vertus, they're the outdated type from the first Signature (2002) all the way to Constellation (2004), none of which are SMARTPHONES, as the OP actually said. The first Vertu smartphone is the Constellation Quest (2007) which is still outdated and is none of the phones on the table.

cc metronaija

bugzbunny:
The gathering of thieves
The owners of Niger delta oil
Bloody islamists
President dat fights corruption but dines with Atiku..tinubu..Obasanjo.. One chance cow... Change my as.s
Day of reckoning will come


Proudly 5%

We shall soon reduce you people to 0.01% sef

freshcvvs:
You just want to talk eh?

she's south african, the traitor.