₦airaland Forum

Its funny the fine line between success and failure in life. Mourinho lost today even though his team outplayed Atletico in most part of the game, while in the past he has won crucial games he was outclassed to the benefit of his over sized ego.
Being on the losing end tonight, he doesn't lose so special, DOES HE?

In life, my Igbo ancestors says that " Those their god buttered their bread, always feel that others are just bad bakers". Humility is always an essential part of life and those that doesn't cultivate it, one day their luck will hit an unexpected break and they will be found out and will look just ordinary like everyone else. Just that winners always have the most vocal voice.

So does this mean that Boko Haram has a barrack, office, headquarters, logistic/command control now? So whats target will they be bombing from 2000 ft, any that moves?

Eze1: On Aburi we stand.

Thats were all those with brain and accurate memory should stand.

Theben: I believe you don't have any media source in your environ aside nairaland. Were you deaf or blind when the issue was raised at the senate on how the south easterners are beginning to dominate the millitary?

I don't care where you get your own source, just tell me how many people from your town or family that are members of the Nigerian armed forces since 1999?
Facts are different from things you heard in a beer bar after your 5th Bottle of large bottle of Guinness stout.

confusion247: I am sure your Tinubu was alive when Jonathan won in 2011, so shall it be in 2015, but for the time being, drones should be sent to northern Nigeria.

Unlike you, I don't have any politician. But people like you may be the biggest problem of Jonathan in 2015, if he decide to run again, because INEC figures shows that he gain substantial number of vote in the northern heartland to beat his opponents, so when you kept on calling the same people all sorts of names, I don't see how that is going his help his electoral fortune if you people makes the likes of the northern governor that help him beat Atiku and rig their states for him angry.
I don't see a commander in chief who in his right mind will despatch fighter jets or drone you are asking for inside his on country, when we haven't been told of any civil war yet.
Even if your name callings or the madness of a drone are justified, I wise man should keep such a feeling all to himself until after 2015.

Theben: Bros bone that level. There are more southerners in the millitary than the northerners. North used to dominate the millitary until southerners began occupying the position of chief of ----- staff

Where does some of you get this sort of mental statistics? How many military personnel comes from you town, lets not talk about your family to support your extraordinary claims?

Dee60: For once Okupe made sense saying to Tinubu that he (Tinubu) committed political suicide with APC. The north cannot be trusted with power again, not in the next 20 years.

Let me get this straight. So lets assume in 2015, Jonathan decides to run again and the demonic north decided not to vote for the southern-angelic GEJ from the south, Tinubu decide to keep date with the demonic north, how is Jonathan going to win in reality and practical terms?

van bonattel: The truth is....... the north is screwed!

Hated by the [b]whole south [/b]for mismanaging Nigeria, forced by boko haram to accept a strict religion, divided in their opinion about Jonathan, confused about their future and afraid of losing oyel moni. The north is no longer as strong as they used to be. Jonathan is killing them silently.

Some of you know how to generalise. Who exactly is this whole south? Soon someone will bring in the so-called middle belt.

Ola Johnson: You've just repeated what I said that the events in the SW affect the whole of Nigeria. If you've got nothing to say why don't you call it quit.

No Sir, I am not quitting just yet, until you can understand and digest your own posts, because each one tend to contradict another.

Ola Johnson: I don't need to ask her: She was one of my lecturers in my undergraduate days. Her emergence was appointive, not elective. She didn't with the governor but only got there as result of the death of the former deputy. Besides, until her appointment she was the state's chairman of SUBEP.

I don't care if she was the midwife at your birth. Appointive, not elective. Let the governor appoint Wole Soyinka as his deputy and lets see where he will tell him to go with it.

Ilaje44: The majority of the people misinterpreting the article can not be said to have enjoyed FREE EDUCATION. English is a foreign language, and this incident here gives wings to my argument that we should promote our languages. Education and research in the mother tongue is the key to sound knowledge.

Most schooled Nigerians should understand English more than their native tongues. From nursery to University, from day one English is used 95% of the time, in the south in particular. How many people in Nigeria can read a letter or write one in their native language? How many Igbos. Yorubas, Hausas, Efik, Ijaw etc can count up to a thousand in their native tongue.
How many can make a full sentence without popping in, one or two English phrase or words into it?
I hate when people who claim to be educated like Mrs Jonathan massacres English, then their first line of defence always this nonsense about native tongue.

[quote author=IGBO-SON]^^^@ The bolded: you're right.....the thread topic is misleading.

Can any northerners in the house try and proffer some explanations as to why poverty is more rife in the north; inspite of the wealthiest individuals coming from there and inspite of the fact that they've held the leadership of this country for much longer than the south? Also, while they're at it, could they also explain why a region/zone like the South East for instance (that ordinarily should be worse off than them) has better performance indicators......and people of the region/zone aren't bitter, angry, bombing everywhere, murdering innocents in cold blood and generally causing havoc for the rest of the country in the name of religion or politics?[/quote]Spot on!
This is exactly what most folk should be talking about and not the British. How many times have I said it in the past that Igbo culture encourages the production of possibly no billionaires, few millionaires but millions of thousandnaires and we want to keep it that way.

Da infamous: there is no doubt that the British government has never particularly felt well disposed towards the Igbos. But must they? I believe that they have the right to chose their friends, and that we also have the right to chose ours. I begin to see problems when people begin to see non friends as friends. That's why I was surprised when Ikemba Ojukwu's associates took him to the UK for treatment when he was very ill. I know that he was already too ill,and couldn't decide for himself, but his associates should have known better-who were, and are our friends. Our people take history too lackadaisically, and we keep on repeating mistakes.

What exactly is the problem here with some of you?
I don't get it. Must you read ethnicity into every simple issue. What has this got to do wit Igbo Hausa or anybody? Do you want to read that poverty in Igboland is 42 million strong as they said its in the north?
Ojukwu treatment in Britain, what has it got to do with poverty in the north. We are supposed to be the enlightened and educated ones-what the heck is going on?

Obiagu1: So it means that only 40% of Nigerians live under the national poverty line?

So every reason he gave to divert 60% of the UK money to the North was based on falsehood.

Where did you get your figure of 40%? Why not stick to the original story or quote.

One Nigeria!
How do you deport a person inside his own country? Maybe the word "deport" has got its meaning changed.
In a country without any form of identification, no official or recognised birth or death record, how did they know where a beggar comes from?
Nigeria can never disappoint on their provision of daily doze of comic reliefs

The region is home to 42 million people who still live under the national poverty line - 65% of the total across Nigeria.
Haba!
This is a simple English any person can understand. The quoted person is not telling you about the population of the north, but rather the population of those in the north living under poverty, a representation of 65% of total poverty level in Nigeria.

What a missed opportunity to shine by Nigerian prophets, for this sort of thing not to have happened in NiGERIA,. How they would have claimed it as their miracle, which will attract or bring them new thousands of gullible followers and more cash for God.

Mogidi: @1025
As a Nigerian have you ever bothered reading the Nigerian constitution? Is there any part of the constitution that grant the president the power to remove governors even in a SOE? Please take a look at the constitution and see how stupid your comments are.

Does anyone really read the book written by Abacha that you called constitution?
Where was this constitution when OBJ was in power? Because the only constitution I knew at the time was just OBJ himself. Which part of that Nigerian constitution could any person a first lady? but it never stop them being called one and public money wasted around it.

alnaijiri: There is a difference between true Islam and the radicalised and perverted version touted by the extremists. Islam is about being merciful to others and treating others the way one would like to be treated. Please stop misrepresenting the true religion of Almighty God and cause more confusion and hate.

Where should I go to find your true Islam? Send me their address please. Being merciful my back foot- like cutting the hand of a person that stole a chicken? Thats a special kind of mercy. Your god or gods must be the most merciful.

Ola Johnson: Everybody in the SW politically conscious, no wonder subsequent government avoid any political uprising in that part of the country because it could destabilize the country. The first coups were not unconnected with events in the SW.

Do you actually know anything about Nigeria?
So you don't know that the most boiling point of Nigerian political uprising is the South West that started the whole thing in the 60s between Akintola vs Chief Awolowo? And in the end NiGERIA/BIAFRA war.
How old are you exactly if you haven't heard about Ife vs Modakeke uprising?
You never heard about Ogbomosho vs Ibadan uprising?
Ajasin vs Omoboriowo 1983 civil that claimed hundred of lives and properties, that led to an NPN man being beheaded?
Victor Ololye vs Bola Ige 1983 civil war? And most recently Fayose vs everybody's civil war?

Where I come from, I can till the next month be telling you all our problems because they are many, but when day dreamers like you start painting a fantasy picture of himself, you becomes a laugh, not the joke.

Ola Johnson: Professors are supposed to be in the universities, not contesting elections but could hold appointive posts. I don't know of any part of the country where former VCs still go back to classes after their tenures. How professors have you seen or read about that contested the presidency in the US? Everybody in the SW politically conscious, no wonder subsequent government avoid any political uprising in that part of the country because it could destabilize the country. The first coups were not unconnected with events in the SW.

Really?
Well go and search the thread regarding the appointment of a professor as the new deputy governor of Ekiti state, where I outrightly said that it was waste of knowledge because a deputy governors does nothing.
But you and many of your brothers were raving that I condemned a professor leaving the class room, research room to join the gravy train of politics of Nigeria.
You are asking your question to the wrong person. Go and ask the brand new second hand deputy governor of Ekiti why a professor like her decide to go sidon look doing nothing as a deputy governor?

Ola Johnson: I've lived with Ikwerre people in Port-Harcourt, where I was born and schooled till I left for Ile-Ife for my university education. They may be Igbo, none of the them trusts an Igbo man or would like to be called Igbo. They even prefer a Hausa to rule Nigeria to an Igbo man. During the civil war, 'Biafran' soldiers humiliated the Ikwerre. People like Elechi Amadi, Dappa Biriye, etc were at many times almost killed for championing the creation of Ogoja - Rivers Region during the Willink Commission. 'Biafrans' became angry when Rivers State was created in 1967.
On Ibusa and other Igbo speaking parts of Delta, Igbo in the SE don't see them as full blooded Igbo. They only say they do when it is in their favour. When Pat Utomi became the presidential candidate of his party no Igbo supported him. They said the technocrat was not from the SE.

Your experience is a good as mine. I swim and hunt every day with Awori people in Timbuktu, non of them ever trust Yoruba man or will dream of being called a Yoruba. They rather go and live in Benin Republic than for Lagos to be called a Yoruba land.
During the Abacha's era, they open the door for Yorubas to be humiliated and assassinated in Lagos by Al Mustapha and the Nigerian soldiers. On Yoruba itself, the Egbas regarded the rest of Yoruba as inferior, that why only them rules when you get the opportunity and they claim to be equal Yorubas during elections e.g Abiola/OBJ etc.
Dele Moumodu became the presidential candidate of his party, not even his wife voted for him and they said the publisher is too fat to be a proper Yoruba.
You see, we are kind of, on the same page.

Ola Johnson: I won't argue with you on professorship and high literacy level in the SW, it is known all over the globe.

I know its know all over the world because you said so and you are that world, what I am worried about is the merit of you bogus claim. The fact remain that the likes of Akala and Fayose ruled over your professors, while person like Adedibu was calling all the shot nearby..

Ola Johnson: You said Lagos is not Yorubaland but Aworiland; what ethnic group are the Awori, are they not Yoruba? Awori is just a group like Egba, Ife, Ijesa, Ifon, Ekiti, Ijebu, Ondo, Owo, Akure, Owu, Oyo, etc, in the larger Yoruba ethnic group. You will also find groups like these with names like Sabe and Ketu in Benin Republic, who are also Yoruba. The Benin President, Boni Iyayi speaks Yoruba. They all have their dialects but speak also speak the Yoruba language which Oyo.

Oh yeah!
So you are very much aware that Yoruba has many facets that make it up, but people like you will also turn the other side and claim that people like the Ikwerres, Ibusa etc are not Igbos. I was only going by your own theories.
Now over to you.

There you go then-One Nigeria.

Real Mccoy: Here in the states, after the president gives a state of the union address, the Republican opposition gives their own version or rebuttal. I was expecting APC to do same since they are the main opposition in Nigeria, why the cricket attitude? Is the termination of Boko Haram not part of your 2015 agenda? Sovereign National Conference is the only way out. Bigotry is every where in Nigeria, visit a minister's office in Abuja,all you will see in his entourage including staffers are his kinsmen and some midget is telling us Nigerians are united? NNPC head quarter's official language is Hausa yet people are screeming *one nigger-area*.....

In the state, public media like CSPAN doesn't belong to the party in power. Will the same NTA/FRCN give the opposition the same platform and time the president got, they will rather use the time to cover maybe her excellency's wedding attendance somewhere.
Never compare a brain box with lunatic asylum of some sort.

alnaijiri: Our forefathers took advantage of contacts with the Arabs, and accepted Islam, thus bringing light to this part of the world. They renounced their formerly pagan ways and I am proud of my forefathers for their decision.

Only devotion to orthodox Islamic teachings can save the North.

Is that right, Alhaji light?
Sleeting the throat of a pregnant woman because some god says so, is it part of this light your forefathers accepted and brought to that fortunate part of the world?
With light like that, who need to go to space?

mekaboy: They have done their worst, religiously and politically. They will all be killed. They have lost the votes of the christians in the north. So it will be the christian north+ SE+SS+MD against any northern muslim presidential candidate come 2015.

Some of you really need a serious lesson on Nigeria. Where was your fantasy Christian North between 1967-70?

barroymails: Well done, Mr. President, on the declaration of this partial state of emergency in three states. Responsible Nigerians had, however, expected full state of emergency in all the affected states. I am unable to understand how the governors and all other political office holders in the affected states could continue to perform their constitutional responsibilities in an emergency regime. All the political office holders ought to give way for the military to return the affected war zones to the path of peace. It appears that Mr. President acted out of fear as he most probably did not want to be criticized by the garrulous opposition leaders and the sponsors/promoters of Boko Haram. Poor him!

So what happened if they are to vacate the state of emergency states , then moved to a new territory of non state of emergency states? Does some of you actually use your God's given brain to think, rather than allowing unconcerned and crooked politicians make fools of you people all the time, in the same pattern, manner, even the same words?