₦airaland Forum

Liars will always be caught in the web of their own lies. What is this? Or is Lauretta onochie no longer a presidential spokesperson.
I don't blame this APC led govt. God blessed them with zombies who believe totally any lie they spew, so they don't even screen their lies and counter lies anymore.
But they somehow confuse us all for their zombies

Lies. The man was hailed. He even mounted the podium and with microphone addressed the people. Did they chase him out after he had gone?

Clerverly:
So when you were busy insulting muslims, Hausas and Buhari, you didnt realize it will come back to you? So in your hypocritical mind, you think, ethnicity wont play part in 2019?

Abeg shift for road!

So how does a senator in Niger state falling out with his constituency concern igbos? You are just talking nonesense that makes no meaning. So insulting tribes for no just cause is your fun? Enjoy, son. Quote me when you're grown up.

IkpuMmadu:
Out of top ten we have three Igbo states and one Yoruba ....I don't consider Lagos Yoruba due to influx of migrants and federal presence


So what are they yapping

Even the one yoruba state, ogun is a fall out of industries from Lagos spill over at otta, mowe, ibafon and such. And those industries are owned by Lebanese, Chinese, igbos, etc.
If you hear of 100 industries in igbo land, 99 of them are self made industries of igbos. If you hear of 100 industries in Lagos or ogun (forget the rest yoruba states), just know that it's just 15 that belong to their sons

oladeebo:
I've warned that 2019 will be hard for all the looters in Nigeria, better for all of them be relocated to south east when they would be welcome home, North & west or to say west/west will be very hard to sneak to, even in the Night!
oladeebo

Your ability to degenerate any news into tribal bashing shows your low level of existence. You must be from a very poor background. Your tribal bigotry can only be seen from children from very very poor parents. Igbos are not responsible for your parents predicament.

The negative publicity being generated for the police by the police in Lagos is worrisome. Is it because Cp Owoseni is no longer the state CP?
Well, I don't engage them in argument in such desolate situations. I just request to be arrested and taken to their station, there I will see the dpo or dco and introduce myself and make some calls and that's how they will be in trouble. If the dpo wasn't cooperating, he too would be in trouble too.
With some serious begging, they might just get reassigned to katsina ala to go and solve cases of missing fowls and yams

This is good. So the man even bought a twin duplex valued at over N650m but would wish to deceive his constituents that there was no money.
I pray most people learn from this

Sanchez01:
Not like the thread concerns me but the truth is that South East leaders don't have developmental plans, save for Umahi and Ebonyi state.

I used to think Obiano had plans for Anambra but the man fancy propaganda beyond true developments.

Abia state is a write-off despite walking the path of an economic state.

Enugu state governor had just one mandate; maintain the good deeds of Sullivan Chime, but no, he towed the path of neglect and would rather organise fasting and prayer alongside every Phyno concert at the Stadium. Refuse dump centres are fast showing up in strategic areas in the only two developed local governments in the state and no one is saying a thing.

Just recently, a sink hole surfaced at New Haven junction and forces all vehicles into using just a route. Rotary club fixed the road with all diligence while 'Gburugburu' came all out after two weeks to 'commission' the road!

Imo... Well, I don't need to say a thing about that one.

I don't know how else to best describe a people so fortunate to have been blessed with the kind of governors they have now.

In plain English language, the South East has no developmental blue print. Umahi might have one but I sure as hell believe no other South Eastern governor has one.

The reference was not just about the present governors but their leaders in general and in history. You are just referring to governors of just two years apart from Rochas. Even with the present govts, give it to anambra and ebonyi. Enugu, Imo have had past govs who had clear blueprint for development

EmeeNaka:
If Nwoye wins, then Anambra must have fallen back to disaster.

If nwoye comes as close as third, then know it was rigged

Antipob777:
Nobody can stop APC from tooking over anambra state came November 18.

Ipobs are illiteracys and chest beaters and Kant stop APC

Election will hold and APC will won it.

God bless Buhari
God bless Nwoye
God bless Ndi Anambra

Thunder fire IPod's

APC is like a zombie bite. Those bitten don't like it but will be happier if others suffer the bite too with them.
It's only on social media that kids like you who don't know where the south east on a map will be hailing anything APC to give them false hope.
Come from your father's house in south west and vote APC in anambra.
Children everywhere

kn23h:
The topic was deleted for no reason, but I will recreate the clean version.

Today, Ibadan, Lagos, Ogun and even Osun all have masterplans to develop their land. Why don't Ibos have the same plan? Why do they rely on FG to come up with a plan to develop the SE?

I think the problem with most of you kids is that what you know of south east is limited to what you read on nairaland. Who told you that the south east leaders are not developing their zone. Rather they have developmental programs that has been running far longer than you know. And what you don't know is that the development in the south east are not govt centred but private sector driven too. Most of the infrastructure you will see in the east are not in anyway from the govt talkless of the Federal govt. Even down to the town unions in various cities tax themselves to fund capital projects such as boreholes, transformers, road grading, culverts etc. And when they are blessed with illustrous sons, you see them delve into more projects.
I think you all should stop this bereft nonsense you post on NL that lacks depth and knowledge

We have entered one chance.
Deacon femi, stop lying. Even the man you are lying for isn't denying it

http://www.criticaltimesnews.com/2017/08/i-promised-to-end-medical-tourism-but-i-failed-buhari.html?m=1

blaqoracle:
we tried Igbo before, we ended in bloody civil war.

Which president of igbo extraction was in power when the war broke off in 1967

Lies and propaganda. That's all this govt is known for

Gazzuzz, how much would it cost to do a total vehicle respray at your workshop?

Mrs. Mammy Maria Ochefu started Mammy market business which later spread to all military barracks in Nigeria. She was married to a former governor of old Enugu State, late Colonel Anthony Ochefu. In this interview with JOHN CHARLES in Otukpo, Benue State, she spoke on what prompted her into starting the business and other issues. Excerpts:



How was growing up?

My father gave birth to me on April 10, 1941 in Otukpo and named me Mammy. The meaning of Mammy in English is mother,(Enenu in Idoma). I grew up with my elder sister in the prison yards in Otukpo. When I became more mature, I gave myself English name Maria and when I got married, I began to be addressed as Mrs. Mammy Maria Ochefu .

Why did you drop out of school in primary four?

My father gave birth to 13 of us and my elder sister who took me from the village promising to take care of me refused to enrol me in any school until my elder brother, Igoche Ode, came to take me from her house. He took me to one reverend father who later took me to Adoka in Otukpo and I was there assisting the priest while in school.

How were you able to get married to a soldier who eventually became a military governor?

I got to know my husband through his elder brother who was my teacher in Adoka. His brother who was my teacher then introduced me to him. I never envisaged that my husband would one day become a military governor. He came home for his annual leave and he met me and his brother introduced me to him. Then, he was a corporal in the army. So, I did not get married to him on the basis that he would be governor some day. But because I was told that he was a nice person and very humble then, I agreed to be his wife.

When you got married to him at 14, was it with the consent of your parents?

My father was fully aware. Then it was rare to be about 14 without a prospective husband, then it meant there was something wrong somewhere; either from your family or your kind of person. But my father insisted that I shouldn’t marry from Ochefu family because his family was deeply involved in chieftaincy tussle. But my uncle, my father’s brother, insisted I must marry him, because the man was a nice person. My mother had no say and there was no resistance from her. So based on my uncle’s advice, my father finally agreed that I should marry my husband.

But at 14, you probably must be too young to understand what marriage was all about?

Hmmm. Honestly, I didn’t really know anything. During our time, as Idoma culture and tradition demand, the very year that you were getting married, your parents would hand you over to your husband. You would have no prior knowledge of what and how the marriage would be. I didn’t know what and what was involved in marriage when I got to my husband’s house as a housewife.

But when my husband was about taking me out of my father’s house to his place of abode, my father prevented him from taking me. His reason was that I was too young and that my husband should allow me stay back home and become more mature. Then one of his good friends sneaked me out of my house because my husband wanted to leave for his station that very day and he was desperate to go along with me. He was at Enugu State by then. So my husband and his friend made arrangement and smuggled me out of my house without my father’s knowledge. Because he had already married me legally just that I was too small, there was nothing my father could have done again but to be happy for me.

You said that you got married to your husband when he was just a corporal, when he was rising in the military, how did you do it that he didn’t think of getting married to an educated lady?

I was not afraid at all that my husband would take advantage of my educational deficiency and marry an educated lady when he became military governor. When we were in the barracks, men were around us everywhere; they kept watch on you, your steps, attitudes and behaviour towards everyone. Then, there were men that wanted to be close but my husband warned me sternly never to give attention to another man.

Again, my father trained all his female children in such a manner that you dare not go close to someone who is not your husband. He also warned us never to get involved with another man. So in my father’s house, it was a law that whether you were married or not, you would not allow any man touch you until you were pronounced husband and wife. So the way I took care of my husband made him not to think of taking another wife, either educated or not educated. I was taking care of him and he was taking care of me too, till we became too used to each other. The love between both of us practically made it impossible for him to think of another woman other than me. While he was rising in his military career, he was also rising in love with me and my love for him became undiluted, which was why we were able to live together throughout his military career. We loved, cherished and supported each other until God took him away from me.

People have always thought that mammy market started with military barracks, but you claim it is your name. How?

When I came to join my husband, I had nothing doing. Sometimes, I sat at home from morning till night idle. So one day, a thought came to me that I should start up something that would keep me busy and I started making gruel also known as ‘’Kunu’’. When I started preparing the ‘’kunu’’, then, we were living in a one bedroom apartment and each time I made it and kept it in front of my room, it usually attracted flies to the house and all my neighbours would be complaining and making trouble with me that I always attracted flies to the house. But each time I made it, I had to go round the barracks, hawking it and before 10am, I had already sold everything. If I returned home, my neighbours would still complain about the flies despite selling everything I took out. So, following the persistent complaints from my neighbours, I decided to rest for two weeks without preparing the gruel.

After two weeks, my customers started trooping to our apartment to ask why I suddenly stopped. I told them about my neighbours’ attitude towards me and since I didn’t have a place to keep the gruel without attracting more flies to their rooms, I could no longer continue. So, those officers that usually came to my house very early in the morning to drink the Kunu, stood behind me and insisted that I must continue with the business; people like the late Hassan Katsina, our current President, Muhammadu Buhari, Yakubu Gowon and one senior officer from the east whom I can’t recollect his name again.

This was in Kaduna, the officers instructed the young officers who also loved taking the gruel(Kunu) to build tents (Bacha) for me behind the barracks. It was boldly written in Hausa language that, ‘Welcome to barracks, let’s branch at Mammy market and drink Kunu.’ From there, I started selling the Kunu again. When we moved from Kaduna to Zaria, they still allocated a place where they built bachas for me. We left Zaria for Ibadan, the soldiers still built bachas for me again. We moved from Ibadan back to Kaduna, I still built bachas. That was the beginning of Mammy Market across military barracks in Nigeria. And when we retired and got back to settle down in Lagos, I established a supermarket, pure water factory and the gruel joint. Then my friend’s mother who worked with the Corporate Affairs Commission advised me to register them as a company and when I asked my husband which name to give my business, he told me to name the company ‘’Mammy Market’’ That is the meaning of Mammy Market.

But in those days, soldiers’ wives were practically idle with no other preoccupation than cooking thrice a day. What motivated you into doing that business of making gruel (Kunu)and selling to the soldiers?

It is part of the training my father gave us as his female children on how best to assist our husbands in taking care of our house. You couldn’t just sit down and be watching your husband or waiting for him to give you money all the time. When he didn’t have to give you, you would have nothing to fall back on. So, we were taught that we must do petty business so that when your husband was not at home to give you money for food, you should have something that would assist you in cooking for the children.


You said officers like Muhammadu Buhari, Yakubu Gowon and others patronised you, it means that you knew Buhari up close, what can you say about him?

Most of the officers who patronised me, drank my gruel (Kunu) on credit and I usually booked them down. So, once they received their salary, they would settle me and we would start afresh. But one thing I like about Buhari, our current president was that, he never owed me. He always paid me each and every day he drank my (Kunu) gruel. Buhari started drinking my gruel when he had two stars. Buhari was always very neat and someone who didn’t like trouble at all. We lived together in same block at the NDA, Kaduna and he was in charge of environment and landscaping. As my customer, we related very well with each other. We stayed together in peace and in harmony.

You described Buhari as a good man, whereas people always think he must be a very tough person…

When we were at the Nigeria Defence Academy, Kaduna, I remember my husband travelled to Cameroon after he was posted to Lagos. You know, soldiers hardly stay in one place. Then, there were not many soldiers on ground to evacuate the heap of refuse and dirt around our block. Buhari came to our block and asked of my husband’s whereabouts because he so much admired our block due to the way I usually maintained the flowers and the landscaping. If you grew up with white men or lived with catholic priests, you must know how to take care of flowers. So because of my background, I was very good at that. Each time soldiers came to our block, they would want us to park out of the place and probably for them to take over. So when Buhari asked of my husband and I told him he had travelled to Cameroon, he said why was I still staying at the quarters when I was supposed to have relocated to Lagos where my husband had been posted to before he travelled out of Nigeria. I told him that I wanted my first daughter and my first son who were in boarding school in Gwusasa, Zaria to finish so that by December of that year, I would relocate to Lagos and he said okay, I could stay as arranged by my husband. Then, my son, who is now a professor, Yakubu Ochefu, was someone that Buhari loved so much. In fact, Buhari liked Yakubu very well. My son always went out with him. Whenever he came to the house, he would ask ‘where is Yakubu?’ ‘’Inna Yakubu, inna Yakubu, inna Hassan’’ and I would reply him and say look at them over there. One of my sons was named after Hassan Katsina.

As someone that got married at 14, what would you consider as gains of early marriage?

I was 16 years when I gave birth to my first child. It enabled me to take care of my children and lived a humble and fulfilled life. But early marriage is something you need to manage.

Having experienced it, would you still encourage young ladies between the ages of 14 and16 to venture into early marriage?

Yes, I am even advising the upcoming girls that even though you are educated, you must understand the culture and tradition of your fatherland, especially in Idomaland. If you marry and you take care of your husband in a humble manner, he would not be jumping from one place to another. So early marriage depends on where you come from, the family you belong to. In my place, if your family is good and you have good upbringing, then there is the possibility of you getting married early and having successful marriage.

Today, no barracks is complete without a Mammy market. How does that make you feel as someone who started it?

The problem that I have now concerning that name Mammy is that each time I go out especially to functions and I am introduced as Mrs. Mammy Ochefu, people would shout in exclamation and ask me, ‘’oh, are you the Mammy market?’’ and when I say yes, they would shout ‘Oh my God’. So, people are embarrassing me too much with that name now. They would express excitement saying this is the Mammy Market woman, Mammy market has come.’ Recently, I travelled to Zaria to visit one of my friends and I went to the market to buy some goods. When I purchased those items and I wrote down my name, the owner of the shop told me that the name sounded like where the market was located and asked me if I knew anything about the market and I said yes. The person was shocked. What I normally did then was that each time I established the Mammy Market in any barracks we were posted to, and when we were going on transfer, I looked for a trusted friend and handed over the market to her to manage. I always encouraged my fellow barracks women to engage in one business or the other in order to assist their husbands. With that market, I have assisted so many people and I am happy that the Mammy Market still exists in virtually all the barracks you go to in Nigeria. Therefore, I am fulfilled just that the military authorities are yet to honour me, including the Federal Government.

How many children do you have. Why is it that none of your children became a soldier?

That is a big question. I have seven children but my son who is the second to the last was so desperate to join the army. My husband didn’t want any of his children to join the military. His reason was that soldiers suffered too much. He suggested that even if any of them wanted to join the military, they should acquire some good level of education first. But by the time they all finished school, none of them was ready to join the military again. My son called Ejiga wanted to join the army by all means and he took the NDA exams several times. They would say he didn’t pass and I told his father to assist the boy through his connection but my husband would say no, that his children would not join the army because apart from the fact that soldier’s job is strenuous, people believe that one must be dubious to be a soldier and he didn’t want any of his children to be seen as wicked and dubious. In a nutshell, it was my husband who vehemently discouraged the children from joining the military.

What would you do to get military authorities to give you recognition as founder of Mammy Market?

Actually, my recognition by the military is long overdue. The military authorities ought to have invited me; the Federal Government is supposed to have honoured me in a colourful manner for achieving that feat. But I believe Saturday Punch has done a great deal by coming to interview me on what I have achieved while in the barracks. Nigerian government in collaboration with the military authorities is supposed to have done something tangible for me. Now that all my children have grown up, the Federal Government needs to recognise them. Buhari should remember that his lovely boy, Yakubu Ochefu, is now a professor and I will be very happy if Buhari can do something for him so that he will continue to take care of me.

When your husband retired, what did you start doing as a means of livelihood?

During our time, whether you were a governor or not, there was nothing like tapping money from government. So we retired home empty handed and my husband brought home nothing. But when we finally settled down at home, I went into farming because my father was a farmer. I was into yam, beans and rice farming. I also had orange and cashew orchards and started managing the farms with my husband till he died. And when he died, I started from where he stopped. I continued to take care of the children until they all became mature. So for now, I am doing nothing again, the children are absolutely taking care of me because old age has set in.

How do you feel when you realise that one of your children is a university vice chancellor?

Despite being a brilliant person from his childhood, I never envisaged that he would one day become a Vice chancellor, but you can see what God can do. An uneducated woman has given birth to educated personalities and I am happy for them. Yakubu is now a professor and a vice chancellor of a reputable tertiary institution. His elder brother is a medical doctor, while others are wonderfully doing well in their various endeavours. They have wiped away my educational deficiency. I remember when I used to take Professor Ochefu and his sister to school by carrying them on my bicycle. Because he was very smart from the beginning, he stayed at the back, while the sister was in my front and when they closed from school, I would ride the bicycle back to their school and pick them home. That was in Kaduna in those days.

Did anyone make jest of you when you had many children or it was a normal thing then?

In fact, my husband as a person told me that he didn’t want many children; he feared that we would not have enough to cater for them. So when we gave birth to six children, we stopped. But Doctor Olusola Saraki, the father of the current president of the senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, who was our private doctor advised us on how to do proper spacing. He actually said even if I wanted to have 10 children, there was no problem but that we should have them gradually through child spacing and he advised us on how to go about it. Then, my husband and myself also took a personal decision not to have children more than seven.

At a point that your husband became a military governor, what happened to your popular Mammy Market business,did you still run your gruel(Kunu) business or you abandoned it?

At the time my husband was appointed a military governor, majority of us women in the barracks didn’t know what governor was all about. When they took him to Enugu State as governor, I still remained in Lagos doing my Mammy Market business. I didn’t know there was something like military governor until the military authorities called me to come to Enugu and see my husband. Throughout my husband’s tenure, I went to Government House, Enugu once and I slept there till the following day, then I lost my father and I came down to Otukpo for my father’s burial. The good thing was that most of his colleagues who were governors then, attended my father’s burial.

http://www.currentnewsnow.com/?p=32139

APC wherever they are found are a curse to the people

See how the north is using APC to fleece the nation

Former slay queen. They always show themselves. I pity men who will marry any of em

Buhari was, is and will continue to be a failure.
That some educated people still voted for this man is the 8th wonder of the world.
Personally, I lost a lot of respect for everybody I know that voted for this failure despite his well documented record of failure, tribalism and recession. I no longer trust their judgement in critical decision times.

slenjaman:
I don't agree with you on this. I don't think it has anything to do with his party but his person. There are APC governors with good character and are remorseful

Mention one

Please for God's sake, what is wrong with that boy!?
This is why I prefer a PDP led govt. In APC, anything goes as Buhari has not finished battling with his health to correct a corrupt, embezzling and bereft governor while the APC hierarchy are more interested in retaining the governors than sanctioning them.
I remember days of PDP, if a state governor starts messing up, they won't even let it degenerate to this Bello level before they start shopping for your replacement from Abuja. Eg, alamiyessia, mbadinuju, Sylva, etc. That way, a governor sits up.
But this is APC, they are a lost cause.

You were not deceived, you were plain stupid.
Anyone who was born before 1985 or has access to history and still voted Buhari despite his track record of failure, recession, tribal bigotry, violation of human rights, corruption etc and still voted him is eternally stupid. They are the type the Bible described as wise in their own eyes but foolish

Nigerian women are the only bunch who will declare equality with their men, yet when competitive issues come up, they turn around and dump the equality campaign and demand preferential treatment.

Why should the deputy be allocated to women? They should lobby for it like every other male politician and stop wishing that things be handed down to them for free

He apologized? But they had released pix of him having dinner with them to disprove that no such thing earlier took place.

Why would I?
We'll just throw in abba kyari, Babachir lawal, magu, Idris, Mamman Daura as bonus to such country

senatordave1:
Stop this stale cliche.most of our politiicians belong to one cult or society,its now a norm.you trying to demonise him shows you are afraid of his great chances.if you believe nwoye is no threat,please ignore him and face your obiano and continue chanting apga bu nke anyi.as for me,i am for nwoye and will paint him in good light.do same for obingo.

Afraid of Tony? My candidate beat his cultist candidate in our university days. Today, am in Apga while he has decamped to APC like a political prostitute which he is to fulfil Arthur Eze's IGR looting program, once again, my candidate will floor him.

Mark my word: if Nwoye and APC comes as close as third, then know it was rigged.

My wife recently told me that she has realized why femi adesina, his media adviser is made to speak on behalf of the president instead of garba shehu whose job it is traditionally.
She explained that anytime garba opens his mouth, he creates more problems for Buhari. So they somehow let femi do it

fiizznation:
Haha.... Shege Dan bura'uba. Wannan Anambra state dindai, sai mun kwache shi da ga hannun APGA.

Sai Tony Nwoye
Sai Apc

Yalla Yalla!!!

Tony Nwoye, a cultist who led a gang of cultists on the orders of his then benefactor, chris uba with police protection, abducted a sitting governor and set ablaze the govt house and later, an Apga governor rebuilds it and he wants to come occupy it.

python1:
You are a very wise man. I like your sense of history.

A yoruba man seeking the post of national chairman of PDP visited two former presidents(one from middle belt and the other from Niger delta). What concerns igbos in it?
Look, igbos are not responsible for your parents poverty. At the top, we don't see tribe but the ability to deliver on shared interest. It's poor kids like you that take solace in tribal bigotry,even when it's uncalled for.
Blame your parents,son

Opakan2:
Same path they'll still tow in 2019. It's like their destiny

And the funniest part is the same North won't allow an Igbo person become president in Nigeria.
How I know this? I've interacted with some of them and they even have this watchword "Never allow igbo rule again".

I just laugh when I see them cry afonja all over the place, calling Yorubas all sort of names.

Please what concerns igbos in this news now?
You must be from a poor home cos thats where the unwarranted championing of tribal bigotry reigns supreme