₦airaland Forum

onatisi: while all this is happening our president is busy selling cassava bread and having nice time with brazilian samba women only to come back and say that he is sad and that we must live the situation.i earlier pridicted it early this morning the MILITARY will soon take over.the writtens on glarinly clear

Leave the poor soul alone, man does not live by blood alone. Its in the bible, even the samba women bit.

pedestal82: Some of this thinz are over exergerated u knw, in Tudun wada for example, all they
Did was burn refuse dump, nobody to kill,no Xtian living there anyways, hv got pictures from
Sombody living in U/ Dosa, just also burning of tires. In all am not trying to say ppl shldnt
Play it safe, but most are exergerated. Am a Xtian by the way, living in KD.

One man's exaggeration may be another man's total nightmare.

pedestal82: Some of this thinz are over exergerated u knw, in Tudun wada for example, all they
Did was burn refuse dump, nobody to kill,no Xtian living there anyways, hv got pictures from
Sombody living in U/ Dosa, just also burning of tires. In all am not trying to say ppl shldnt
Play it safe, but most are exergerated. Am a Xtian by the way, living in KD.

Maybe, no more so-called Christians remained to be burned and they took their frustration on a poor refused dump that did them nothing, but just being smelly.

engineerd: wow....Nigeria has turned into somalia.....

I don't think so, Somalian make some good dollar money out of their own issue on the high sea even without claiming to have any sort of govt , let alone pretending to be a democracy.
While, Nigerians spills lots of good blood out of theirs and on the streets, while claiming to be some sort of giant and democracy.

afam4eva: Are you a Christian or a Muslim?

I hope he is an Atheist, could that be a license to be safe?

afam4eva: Jesu Christi. What is going on in this country.

As if you don't know? Its called Fresh Air 2012. It been blowing gently since 1967.
Only that our dear King Goodluck Ebele "Einstein" Jonathan only just freshen it up.

petokey: Their is complete chaos in kaduna as a whole right now. Pls somebody pray for us.

Who shall the prayer be directed to?

boneruns: We should atleast try to ask ourselves some pertinent questions: where are the governors, representatives of those states? What are their duties? Must the president be culpable of everything that happens in each state? If so, the governors of those affected states should resign for unproductivity.

Bigotry is really killing us in Nigeria. People just want to criticize anything.

The last I checked, no governor in Nigeria commands any police, army, navy or airforce or SSS and these are the only instrument of maintaining law and order anywhere in the world.
Never mind they get security vote fund monthly, which is another name given to money they are meant to share among themselves and their cronies every month.
In Imo, Okorocha has turned the security fund into financial funding for Imo free education scheme and still have some change left still to share with/among his own legion of cronies.

ITbomb: So because of some disillusioned fellows up north, the President should be held down from an important international event that has been planned for long to open opportunity for business in Nigeria.
Next time they will wait for an event to cause confusion.

That is called business as usual in Oyibo tongue.

omosexy1: Oga Oga Oga please nobody should tell you that those House of Rep. are not thieves please. Even if Otedola is guilty of giving a bribe, they as well are guilty of taking the bribe, not only that but the thousands of bribes they have been collecting. Obasanjo has said it, when he did they all shouted. That is their nature. Aggressive thieves.

If everything is based on what we read and not about what we think or how we feel, Otedola did not give any bribe but was an instrument or tool used by the security agency to catch someone that was demanding bribe, so in that case you can't say that the guy gave bribe or did anything wrong, that is, if based purely on what we read.

The problem with Nigerians is that they always allow emotion to over run their sense of reasoning. Sometimes to catch a bad person, you need to use another bad person to succeed through their co-operation with the police. Based on what we read, Otedola was asked for bribe and he wasn't happy being blackmailed and he then went to the authorities for help and with his collaboration, they set up a sting operation of which Farouk fell into and again, this was based on what we all read.

It doesn't matter whether Otedola is lucifer or an angel, this is not about him, he is now an important star witness in future trial, if any. And he was correct when he said that Farouk did not act alone, because if he did, how come this members answered "Aye" to remove the name of the two companies from the report already submitted to them to ratify without asking Farouk what brought about the sudden change? What new evidence him/other committee members has got that warranted that?
And again, when Otedola went public, instantly again, the two company's names were back on - So too again, they did not ask themselves, on what evidence this time to put the names back on?
Why are they stil holding the rest of the report, when a part of it and the main writer of it has be tarnished? Its like kids stuff really.

So based on this, Otedola has every right to call them jokers. And you wonder the level of intelligent of this people, especially the so-called opposition, who also too, did not raise an alarm originally when overnight, Farouk wanted two names removed.
From that moment, they should have called for the report to be withheld until Farouk inform them with evidence what brought the change of heart. But knowing Nigerians, they will be fixed on Otedola now based on ignorant, tribal bigotry and the rest and lost the real meat of the whole sad scenario.
If later they want to investigate Odetola's activities, that is entirely a different issue.

Jaguar1: Sure, it's called Mmanwu. I only wanted to make reference to the particular Mmanwu since all masquerades are called Mmanwu in Igbo.
So many communities in Delta and Anambra states share this masquerade and I was very delighted watching it. I sent liinks to my brothers and he was very delighted and yes you have to be intiated and swear to a secret oath to participate.

No problem my brother, we are on the same page now. Sorry if I misunderstood you.

Jaguar1: The Ihioma didn't stop there. it extended to many parts of Delta State: Ndokwa-East, Ndokwa-West, Oshimili LGAs. Pay a visit to Abala-Uno and you will marvel at the Ihioma (Mmawu) will see and more so it's very respected there.

Ihioma is actually a name of a town in Orlu.
The masquerade itself is called Nmanwu.
Other towns that are neighbours to Ihioma are Amaifeke, Okporo, Ihite-Owerre, Obibi etc

Wow! Abagworo thanks a great bunch for posting these videos of what we are as an Igbo race.
I enjoyed it with my grand children and they were totally impressed. I specially enjoy the Nmanwu from Ihioma community. Ihioma is neighbouring community to mine, so our Nmanwu is the same.

For any man to participate, you had to be initiated, which is a 24 hours process and then you will be regarded as a real man if you pass the testS INVOLVED .
I still can remember my initiation with fifteen other guys in 1975.
Thanks again

BoboYekini: Well Beaf, frankly I have hated you on account of your pro-GEj posturing but on this one, with the dimension recent events have taken, bruv, you're very correct!
I have begun making efforts to know my reps from the ward councilor to senator. I believe there is a thread on knowing your reps, It might be a good idea to direct people to it as well. These evil and corrupt Reps shall know no peace.

No your Beaf is totally wrong.
You and him forgot that all this sh*t is happening under a PDP government led by Jonathan and you cannot separate them. Beaf is the un-appointed spokeperson for PDP/GEJ govt on Nairaland and the way he has been posting as sort about this Farouk guy and taking the moral high ground as if nothing happenened, makes me sick. What a crass hypocrisy!

This all about PdP dominated house and PDP govt led by his uncle. This is the problem of Nigeria, never taken responsible for anything and in a few weeks time, the same Beaf will be rooting for same PDP in EDO state election and will brush Farouk scandal under the carpet.

The giver/taker of this bribe are PDP staunch members, in fact the giver is one of the pillars of Jonathan campaign funding. During their sham election they were selling dummy that they are voting for Jonathan and not PDP, So scandal has come, the name they claimed people are voting for is no longer mentioned. What a country!

Real billionaires or robber billionaire? Clarify that first.
Because as long I know Nigeria has no single genuine billionaire, millionaires maybe and you go to look really hard.

It shows how bigger fools this politicians are.
If Lamido and his still-standing PDP are not in control of Nigeria purse, the police, army, INEC, Judiciary at their service, I wonder if himself will still be in the PDP?
How much did Lamido stood with SDP that won the 1993 presidential election before he quickly abandone the mandate and joined Abacha's government and one of the first to say that the annulment was an act of his god?
Those looking for those that kill the youth corpers after the last rigged selection- this one of goons you should be looking for, instead of chasing shadows with Buhari.
Opportunistic Stupid fool!!

omenka: I don't think just killing those mofos would sufice. I think after they are shot, their family should be made to pay for the bullets used to kill them cos the state can't afford to waste even d slightest resource on such virmins! [color=#990000][/color]

Funny you said this which sounds unrealistic now, but actually its what happens in the 80s in Imo when a certain commissioner of police/commandant of 32 artillery brigade Obinze near Oweeri decided that the families of executed armed robbers should be charged/pay for the bullet used in executing them and it carried on for a long time.

The fight in my opinion starts from the presidency. Jonathan has to send such a law to the both legislative houses and use every avenue to blackmail them to pass the law with two months, even if it worth him sitting in the public gallery everyday day until the law is passed. Once the law is signed, a clause in the law which will stipulate for a 90 days of amnesty for past corrupt practices shall set it.

And the clause shall stipulate that every public or private person living shall within 90 days return what it has stolen from the masses and that record shall be wiped clean with immediate effect. The after 90 days, the death penalty law shall kick start.

But with Nigerian and its structure and its rulers, this isjust a fantasy. Someone like Jonathan can't try such a thing, because not only he is doing his best to become one of the most corrupt rulers of Nigeria but the fact that he doesn't have the liver, heart, will, personality and is surrounded by vultures of all sizes and shapes and colours.

But if you are to believe humans, the only person I trust today to attempt it is Mr Buhari and the Nigeria political/corrupt establishment knew this fact. That why they are afraid of him and much of his opponent are his own people who knew what they had done for the past 40 years unchecked. That is why the aforementioned establishment are painting him all sort to stick on the guy but the funny thing is: Those here writing all sorts against corruption are the same folks buying into the blackmail/propaganda from the corrupt mafia in government against Buhari.

How many times had I said it, Nigerian are their worst enemies and they loved to love their real enemies.

What I am actually interested is what happens to the guy and the money IBB seized from him? Does anyone know?
Can any investigative journalist dig this up? Because it was like it never happened, despite the size of the fraud involving billions and billons of Naira and in todays terms-trillions of cash.

2mch: Well obviously somebody in the government found out, that is why he was taken away. Only IBB can say for sure. I doubt any Nigerian will give you double the money though. Where is he getting such money? The capital markets didnt have a boom really till the 90's. And Nigeria wouldnt have been wired at that time for individuals or owners of random banks to partake in the capital market. This is if your argument was that he was investing the deposit. My bet is on fake currency. . You know how many times Nigeria had to introduce new currency to battle the plague of fake currencies in circulation? These fake currencies are hardly detectable. Not to talk of being detected by visitors and regular people. Like businessmen and illiterates looking for a quick payout. They will even be more interested in the amount of fake paper than its realness.

You make it sound like mid 80s was 33BC, all persons were blind and primitive to be give thousand of fake money which they also later lodge in a normal bank? In my narration, I mentioned every class of people weren't left out including bankers themselves and kept on with the fake money theory. How many people can you give fake money for months?

2mch: Well it must have been the typical ponzi scheme then. He will bear the cost of giving out money until he gains the people's trust to a certain extent. When word get around that the scam is genuine more deposits start pouring in, and then at the right moment he absconds. . I still suspect the fake money aspect. Fake money was a lot more difficult to identify back then. It may look real to you, doesnt mean CBN put it in circulation.

You don't give thousands, if not millions of people fake money from month to mont and nobody knew.

blink182: Its a ponzi scheme, read about Charles ponzi on wikipaedia

This one was a bit different as ponzi never pays anyone one his deposit but Umana not only paying back your deposit but tops with a 100% interest cash. It lasted several months and to the best of my knowledge no one lost their money except those lodge before IBB struck and spring Umana off to Abuja and the guy disappears without trace.
Things happens in that country of yours.

Kobojunkie: Did Dr Umana exist at all?

Believe, he exist and he is from the present day Akwa Ibom. I Use to have his picture somewhere, if I find it I will ask someone to help me upload it as I don't know how to do some of this computer stuff.

2mch: Most likely taking people's real cash and exchanging it with fake money. Back then it must have been a lot easier to print and mint your own money without any detection. Those people were most likely taking back home worthless paper. Quite an intelligent idea actually.

No, there is no fake money. It was all real money as I was an eye witness.

The story of Dr Umana is something many of you may be too young to know or had ever heard of but the story is not fiction nor from a story book but its rather real and it happened in Nigeria.
It was In the mid 1980s, as usual since the 70s I was on my annual holiday in Port Harcourt (my place of birth) from England. A day after my arrival, a cousin of mine that also lives in Port harcourt and a teacher by profession came to me and after all the niceties asked to borrow some money from me and I asked her how much? And she said 35 thousand naira!

I nearly fell off my seat or had a heart attack and I asked, what she needed such amount of money for and how long she thinks it will take her to pay me back if I am mad enough to give her that sort of money?
Then I thought I was day dreaming when she said that she will pay me back with interest before I return back to England (i.e in 4 weeks time).

It was then she told me that a new booming business based in Aggrey Road in Port Harcourt called Umana Bank for the past six months and it works this way: Whatever you deposited into the Umana Bank after full 4 weeks, you can withdraw your entire deposit with a whopping 100% interest paid to you in full. I laughed like I had never laughed before and said to her that she is either mad or had been conned by some people that want to con some money she never had.
Then my host, another relative of mine, looked at me and smiled and he told me that my cousin is telling the truth and as a matter of fact, he too had deposited 50 thousand naira and his deposit is due to be cashed within few days and I can come with him on the day of withdrawal.
I knew now that if this is a joke, it must be an expensive one because I think my whole family has conspired to con me using this made up story or something is wrong somewhere.
Because my host is a very intelligent businessman who owes three big petrol servicing stations in Port Harcourt and another two in Aba/Orlu.

Then he took me outside and pointed out to me a brand new Toyota Crown car he claimed to ha have just bought and he told me that it was from the interest he earned from Umana Bank the month bedore. As the evening wore on I start to meet many old friends and relatives and each time I met anyone, Umana Bank is the centre of the all discussions. Everyone is at, it seems. Young, old, poor, rich, middle class, intellectual etc, everyone has or has cashed their deposit with Umana Bank.

I spent the entire week trying to figure out what was happening, and I start to get the best picture of what is happening with the Umana Bank wildfire when on a trip to Aba, I was having launch with comrade of mine in the Biafra army, who is from Ikot Abasi in the old Cross River state and who happens to be a Bank manager of ACB branch in Aba and I asked him whether he had heard about this Umana Bank in Port Harcourt?

And he confirmed that Umana Bank is real.
He went on to said that almost all Banks in the old East has ran out of cash because everybody has withdrew their entire cash to deposit with Umana Bank and then he whispered to me that he too had borrowed 50 thousand Naira from his own bank illegally to deposit with Umana Bank and how he was having nightmare for a whole month his money was there and how he could not believed it when at the end of the month, he went to Port Harcourt, not only he cashed his 50K naira but got another 50K naira cash in interest.
How he discreetly put the original cash back to his bank and is using his 50K naira windfall to start finishing a storey building (house) he had been struggling to build for the past 5 years in his village and he has also bought himself a fairly used 505 GL which he showed me and that he has deposited another 10K from his windfall from Umana Bank.

Going back to my host, he kept his words weeks later when he asked me to accompany him to cash his deposit of 70K.
And couldn't wait to go with him because it still sound unreal, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
On getting there, the crowd of depositors and withdrawal stretched over two miles if I am not exaggerating. I saw all sorts of people, from traders to rich people to even police/army/navy/air force personnel in their uniforms lining up and there was rumour going round too that even the then military governors around and all their commissioners has put their cash in Umana Bank.

I could not stand in the line with my host for that long and I had drive down to Owerri for some meeting and later returned back to P.H and he was still there and after almost 8 hrs he went into the building and 30 minutes later, he came back to the car and I drove off heading home and he was singing through out the short journey home
And to my GREATEST amazement, when we got into the house, I was nervous and also excited and he opened the ruck sack and there it was- bundles of Naira notes and he was dancing around the front room with his wife and kids and when he settled down later.
He started counting the cash and to my astonishment again it was 140K Naira cash in total as he claimed a week before that he will get.

I am now convinced that Umana Bank is real for whatever this guy is doing but the question I kept asking was:
Who is this Dr Umana E Umana?
What is going on?
What does it do with the money deposited with him?
Is he licensed by the then government (IBB govt) .
And has anyone ever heard of such an interest return before?

Few weeks later, I returned back to England and couldn't wait to tell my wife, and she said to be that a great fraud is happening but never has she heard how open it was.
But exactly a week after my return, I got a call very early in the morning from my relative/host. His first word was: Umana has collapsed and with my 40K Naira with it!
I asked him what happened?
He said, everything is still very sketchy but it seemS that they woke up one morning and saw the whole of Port Harcourt city like in a war situation with thousands heavily armed army, police all over the city drawn from all over Nigeria, sent by the order of IBB to stop Umana's operation, arrest him and bring him to Abuja.
He then told me that a bungalow at Creek Road situated among many other houses was the house Umana used to keep the cash without the faintest knowledge of anyone.
Then story start to emerge about those that had sold everything they got to deposit it after cashing the initial small some and I was told millions of people lost their money. As everything Nigeria- Dr Umana was whisked to Abuja, till today, no one heard of him again or his money or any enquiry set up by IBB's government to tell the world/Nigeria who this man is and what he was doing?
Umana and Umana Bank just disappeared into tin air till this day.

ikeyman00: ^^^^^ eziachi take note

I had long time ago taken note and the essence of the note is to advise naive and greedy future youth corpers up north, is never romance with heartless politicians irrespective of the party.
Don't allow yourself to be used to rig elections for them and if you must, demand absolute security first, especially in areas where human life means nothing and their religion thought them to go for eye for eye justice.
Because there is this sayings in Igbo tongue that " 1. A man who asked a child to go and catch the smelly rat, make sure he got the child water to wash his hand afterward" "2. The person that fetch/brought an ant infested firewood into the house is responsible for inviting all the lizards for a party inside the same house"
That is the note I took and I rest my case.

ikeyman00: @@@@@



u see northeners like u is the wahala this country wouldnt moved forward

i remember once i was in naija after joe took over u could easily smell the anger in the air in abuja as if all this years the north was there things are any better

this country is for all of us aboki u hear; aad plz tell ur boko baboon to stop the killing

fools

According to your Joe, INEC and PDP figures, your Joe won by a landslide in Abuja, so where is your nose tuned to, smelling this anger in Abuja? From the same people that gave him a landslide?
Some of you think we were born yesterday.

KBrown: According to the retired General, he was speaking to delegates from Niger State. So, one would have expected him to realise that there are Nupes, Gwaris, Da karikaris and many other ethnic groups apart from Hausa from that state. The general language they all understand is English but he chose to address them in Hausa. He hould know better than that. Now, he claims to be misquoted....
Come to think of it, does it not occur to Buhari that even if the whole Niger State is Hausa, the rest of Nigerians needs to know what was happening. Or, was it voodoo?

Like I said before, when tribal hatred commands one's sense of reasoning, you will always find an excuse, whether it makes sense or not. Just for tribal political convenience, you had made yourself the un-appointed spoke person for Gwari, Nupe etc. Even if the guy speaks in English, you will question his ascent or his command of English or question why he wasn't speaking in French since your neighbours Cameroon, Benin might be listening.

divine2043: My question to northerners and some Buhari-loving southerners is this - If Buhari is beaten squarely again in the next elections, would they continue to spill more blood in the name of fighting for their 'rights'? None of them is willing to answer this question.

I am a SOUTHERNER and if the truth is to be told, the man has never been beaten in all the elections he was involved, let alone squarely. You and I knew that apart from OBJ's first term, all other subsequent presidential elections makes Saddam Hussein's elections of those days looks clean/credible.

As long as spilling of blood is concern, it has no boundary if you rigged a very popular candidate out in an area his opponent has little or no support. When NPN/FEDECO claimed that they beat Awo/UPN in Ondo for example in 1983, blood wasn't the only thing spilled, the whole Ondo was nearly burnt down until Ajasin was rightly restored as the legitimate governor, instead of the usurper Akin Omoboriowo.

If Ohakim was declared the governor of IMO STATE LAST YEAR, the people in Imo probably would have spilled blood too because they were determined to get rid of Ohakim and the vast majority voted for Okorocha. Just that some of you are bland hypocritical about the direct link between the blatant rigging for Jonathan in the north by the northern establishment, who faced the brunt of their masses including their most respect rulers and you only focus on youth corpers they used by forget to protect them after the job was done.

Dont tell me that no blood would not had been spilled if INEC had declared Buhari the winner in Bayelsa by a huge margin and by the outcome of that Bayelsa state result, Buhari beats Jonathan to Aso Rock?
Most of you and MEND would had been calling for the immediate end of dying Nigeria if such a scenario was to occur which was what happened in many states in the north.
I may be a southerner but I am not a stupid one who deliberately calls a black a white just because it suited my bigoted ideology that I had to hate anything north to qualify as a real southerner. Sorry to disappoint you.

fortyfeet: i had no choice in 2011 so did not vote. having said that, i still maintain that buhari is not mature to play nigerian politics. in the south and many parts of the north, politicians after addressing their crowd in the local language they understand, for the benefit of doubt, they translate in english. why not buhari too

WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? After addressing your audience, you also repeat the same long bore speech which is often unwritten in English? Not liking someone is not an excuse to go below our normal conventional wisdom.

fortyfeet: i had no choice in 2011 so did not vote. having said that, i still maintain that buhari is not mature to play nigerian politics. in the south and many parts of the north, politicians after addressing their crowd in the local language they understand, for the benefit of doubt, they translate in english. why not buhari too

There were 11 names on the ballot paper and you claimed not to have a choice out of 11? You cannot be serious.