₦airaland Forum

ambac2bust:
as we all know Buhari and APC are a bunch of liars, they are good at lying and fraud. if they can forge a certificate then they can create fake accounts to sign petition in support of buhari...
Updates coming soon. watch out.

ofcourse, the only trusted website is change.org.

[size=15pt]Yes I support disobeying court orders, because I want to be able to detain, torture and kill people, if I ever become president. Nigerians are unruly and must be treated like suya![/size]

[size=15pt]Buhari certificate is inside the cow belly, since buhari is a poor man that can not afford to buy his presidential ticket, he feed his school certificate to the cow. locate his land somewhere in Port harcourt and dissect the cow there you'll find the certificate[/size]

lies

[size=15pt]Oyibio love money pass Igbo,

na so dem hold abacha loot there give us back small-small like sa na pocket money. thief in suit[/size]

[size=15pt]Neo-Colonialism in Nigeria[/size]

Neo-Colonialism resembles indirect rule because the colonized seems to be independent but its economic system and political policy are controlled from outside. However, Neo-Colonialism is more dangerous because of its system of operation, which leads to poor development and economic dependent on the countries involved. In contemporary Nigeria today, neo-colonialism is a mighty obstacle which prevents the countries from experiencing meaningful development. This research seminar work at the end intends to help contemporary Nigerians to know the negative impacts Neo-colonialism has created in Nigeria and how best to tackle it, for a better change and rapid development in this country, Nigeria.

[size=15pt]Wikileaks, Shell and Neo-colonialism in Nigeria[/size]

Wikileak US embassy secret cables continue to educate, performing a significant public service and, hence, drawing fire from all ‘responsible’ quarters beholden to American hegemonic power. This week saw significant revelations about the role of Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria where over two-thirds of the population live in poverty in an oil-rich economy.

However, it is not just the Nigerian state that is infiltrated by Western multinational corporations: the university system was created by and operated largely for western interests in the run up to and after independence in 1960. Such penetration was organised by the British Colonial Office, funded by the Carnegie Corporation and other American ‘philanthropic’ foundations, and facilitated by a western-educated Nigerian elite whose mentality was entirely self- and Western-oriented.

In effect, ‘independent’ Nigeria was handed over to social, economic and political forces that were economically, militarily and intellectually dependent on the West, particularly Britain and the United States. Nigerian elites effectively adapted the role they had long played since the days of the slave trade: middlemen between the resources of Nigeria and traders and others from the West who wanted slaves and minerals. With every transaction, Nigeria’s unpatriotic middlemen collected a fee for services rendered, enriching themselves and their Western overlords at the expense of the peoples of that artificially constructed country.

The Wikileak cables that reveal the degree of penetration – colonialisation – of the Nigerian state by just one, admittedly massive, multinational corporation is not especially surprising but remains shocking nonetheless. It shows that the end of colonial rule did not presage genuine independence for Nigerians but the transfer of political power to nominally Nigerian elites that continued to see the country as a set of resources for sale, at a price. They took advantage of their situation for their own benefit, using the context of Cold War competition between the West and the Soviet Union to wrest as high a price as possible for their services. They ran an anticommunist regime, based on Western precepts of modernisation and development, promising political stability and economic, commercial and raw material flows from Nigeria to the industrial West. While they got richer and richer, the mass of ordinary Nigerians got poorer and poorer.

It was hardly surprising that Nigeria erupted in bloody civil war in the late 1960s: the Western economic development experts sent over by American philanthropic foundations and the American state, such as Wolfgang Stolper of Michigan State University, saw Africa as the “dark continent”, and Africans as backward, lazy, corrupt and inferior. The likes of Stolper, and Arnold Rivkin of MIT (and later adviser to the US Agency for International Development, and the World Bank’s Africa division) also prided themselves on their objectivity, wearing their ignorance of matters African as a badge of distinction. They proceeded to meddle at the very heart of economic policy and development, establishing fiercely market-based economies in the context of an ethnically-charged, class-based political order that they knew nothing about, let alone understood.

They openly spoke and wrote about Nigeria, and Africa in general, as a laboratory for experimentation, especially for their economic theories and for theories of public administration. It is not surprising then that Pfizer sent over, during an epidemic a team of scientists to test out on human beings new drugs that were not permitted in the United States. The “dark continent” remains in the Western elite mind a place for “discovery”, a laboratory with human guinea pigs whose own leaders might have “forgotten”, according to a Shell Oil representative, how deeply penetrated are their own organs of state power.

In a typically provocative essay in the Daily Mail about 5 years ago, the pro-imperial Anglo-Saxonist historian Andrew Roberts who, I suspect, will be among the gaggle of pro-imperial historians to advise Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove on how to teach history in Britain’s schools, demanded the west “Colonialise Africa” again. He claimed that all the evidence of post-colonial Africa’s corruption, poverty, and lack of economic development, demanded a return to Western colonial rule.

Roberts, at least, was writing almost 50 years after independence. The telling fact is that amnesia about the creation of such endemic problems in Africa had begun even before the end of British colonial rule. By the time the likes of Stolper and Rivkin turned up in Africa to ‘develop’ and ‘modernise’ it, with the help of colonially-educated and oriented Nigerian elites, the colonial past and its massive negative consequences, were already being denied and forgotten.

In truth, colonial rule in Nigeria transformed into neo-colonialism: the granting of political sovereignty through a negotiated settlement that would retain, maintain and extend economic, commercial, intellectual and military ties. The colonial mind-set lives on. It merely changed its outer appearance, its garb. That superficial change is now so deeply accepted and taken for granted a part of the African story that it is promoted as actual history.

What the Wikileaks US embassy cables have done is to cast especially brilliant light on one stark example of neo-colonial rule in Africa, striking at the heart of dark deeds perpetrated by Western power and, very significantly, its forgetful but affluent Nigerian allies.

deveante100:
Mr akpabio imposed a stooge (banker) to cover up his tracks . why do you think he chose a banker?
what seaport? in deed the average akwa ibom IQ must be 30 . there are no plans to build any ibaka seaport and there'll be no seaport even in the next 10 years .
I don't know why black people are so stupid and easily deceived . get this into your empty skull : Mr akpabio embezzled over $14 billion dollars out of the 16 billion dollars he received . seaport cost around 1 billion dollars and should have been the priority but he built meaningless and unsustainable white elephant projects .
Both Umana and udon are wrong. Do you understand what I just said?

it appears you are a dolt. How was Akpabio voted into his office in the first term, when Victor Attah was supporting his son-in-law. Akpabio has little power to impose udom on people of Akwa Ibom, he scouted Udom, because of the his talents and marketed him to Akwa Ibom on his merits. The people of Akwa Ibom evaluated udom and choose him on the merits. for your charges of embezzlement the burdern of prove is on you. I believe, Akpabio did tremendously well for Akwa Ibom under 8 years, and if you Udom can do his portion of the work as well as Akpabio did, Akwa Ibom will be massively ahead of other states in the next 20 years.

asha80:
so akwa ibom is an industrialized state? Any evidence of that?

Akwa Ibom is not an industrialized state, that is the task of the present governor. Akpabio's task was to build infrastructure, then the present governor was pull from his banking job to industrialized the state because he has the expertise and the financial know how. Already he renovated the Peacock paint factory, the is a new printing plant commissioned recently, there was ground breaking ceremony for LED factory and electric meter production factory. The Ibom deep sea port is the major industrial project for him. how ever his knowledge of finance is why he was elected to bring foreign investment into the state to industrialize it. he just announce that the are three private refineries coming to the state in 2016. we just wait and see how he does with the industrialization but Akwa Ibom does have a plan and a direction, If APC does not forcefully remove him we can hope a significantly better akwa ibom in terms of industrialization in Akwa Ibom.


@Nellybank @DIVINE78

mirabel001:
google it

Well, on Google Okonjo-iweala argued it was Soludo but it is her opinion obviously...

mirabel001:
google it

Well, on Google Okonjo-iweala argued it was Soludo

[size=20pt]Shifting the blame DSS, are not disobeying order based on the chief Judge, they are acting Buhari's order[/size]

WON'T BE A BAD THING IN MY VIEW, HIS VICE PRESIDENT IS MORE INTELLIGENT AND WILL DEFINITELY DO A BETTER JOB.

PUNCH HAS BECOME A JOKE, PHOTOSHOPING KANU PICTURE ? IS THE NO REGULATORY ORGANISATION IN NIGERIA.

THEIR NAMES, WHERE ARE THEY REALLY FROM?

[b]STUDY THE HISTORY OF OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES FROM BURKINA FASO TO CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC TO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO AND CONTRAST IT WITH NIGERIA. YOU'LL RELIES ONE THING MOST AFRICAN COUNTRIES ARE NOT IN CONTROL OF THEMSELVES, IT IS EUROPEANS (THE WEST) MEDDLING IN THE BACKGROUND, BY PLAYING ON THE ETHIC AND RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES WITHIN AFRICAN COUNTRIES, FOR INSTANCE THE BIAFRAN WAR WAS INITIATED BY THE BRITISH AT THE REQUEST OF THE OIL COMPANIES AND THAT IS WHY THE QUEEN WAS THERE TO MEET GOWON, IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE WAR. BRITISH JOURNALIST ACTING AS SPIES IN THE BIAFRA SIDE AND ON NIGERIAN SIDE AS FRIENDS. SIMILAR TO THOMAS SAKARA, BY FRENCH MEDDLING IN THE COUNTRY AND FRENCH AGAIN C.A.R, THE BELGUIM AND AMERICA IN THE D.R.C. ALTHOUGH NIGERIANS ARE A BIT SMARTER THAN THOSE OTHER COUNTRIES, ACROSS AFRICA THE PLAN AS ALWAYS BEING KEEPING US CONSTANTLY FIGHTING EACH OTHER, WHILE ENSURING THAT DUMB LEADERS ALWAYS RULE US, IF ANY LEADER GETS TOO SMART THEY ARE KILLED OR REMOVED BY SPONSORING ANOTHER OPPONENT, FOR INSTANCE, JONATHAN THAT WAS INITIALLY DUMB, STARTED REALISING MEMBER OF HIS TEAM WHERE SPIES, THATS WHEN HE SAID "YOU CAN'T TRUST YOUR FRIENDS ANY MORE AND SUSPENDED YEARLY MILITARY EVENTS WITH THE US AMRY, AND WHEN BUHARI GOT ELECTED HE RAN TO LONDON TO MEET DAVID CAMERON". MUST AFRICAN COUNTRIES ARE STILL A COLONY, THERE WAS NO TRUE INDEPENDENCE, ALTHOUGH NIGERIA IS CONSIDERABLY MORE INDEPENDENT THERE WEST STILL CONTROL THROUGH TRAITORS WITHIN US[/b]

[size=15pt]With the new bagging claims and brown envelope journalism perversive in Nigeria, I thing Lai Mohammad has succeed in buying much of the Newspapers in Nigeria for propaganda, the silence over bombings was a clue but Now I think the judiciary is gone and now the media too. My opinion...[/size]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=878mEvelm7M


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=878mEvelm7M

mrmetoo1:
When I said one lasting, I'm not talking about something started or halfway done. The train system as you call it is still very dysfunctional. How many people personally did you know traveled with train in this high travel season?
As far as all those trying to prevent the disease from getting in, the fact is it got in. Those that stopped the spread and quickly acted to gather those that might have had contact are the ones I give credit to.

Nobody can complete Nigeria's train system in 4-6 years, it has to be a continuous effort.
I agree that Jonathan was not a great president but denying him his achievements is just childish and vindictive

Here is a list of his achievement in 2014

https://www.naij.com/327559-top-achievements-of-president-goodluck-jonathan-in-2014.html

Here list of Thirty Achievements of Goodluck Jonathan Administration

https://www.naij.com/291232-goodluck-jonathan-administration.html

I didn't like Jonathan as president and I don't like Buhari as president, I believe Nigeria deserves better presidents, especially with the wealth of talented Nigerians around the country/ the world, we differently have much better leaders, but I will never deny they their achievements because it is a difficult job being president.

mrmetoo1:
I'm sorry are we joking here? Cos if it is a joke, it's kinda funny. GEJ can't even take credit for Ebola. If we have to give anyone credit, it's the LASG. LASG are the ones that tracked those affected, they're the ones that created the temporary treatment centers in Yaba. Even the money from the FG came in weeks late. Do you know the damage an infectious disease like Ebola could have done if they had to wait from funds from the FG?? Let's just thank God, that disease landed in a state like Lagos with an effective governor

well, LASG it cooperate with FG, but FG took charge all the states in Nigeria had thermometer and trained personnels at entry points not just Lagos, FG released the funds necessary, collaborated with all the international agencies to ensure Nigerian personnels across the country were taking the right procedures to ensure it was curbed. I am not joking. but if you don't like that one, what about resurrecting the dysfunctional trains system?

[size=13pt]well, I suppose seeing is believing...
behold, election in Akwa Ibom contrary to tribunal[/size]

mrmetoo1:
My guy no need to sugar-coat anything, Jonathan's administration was by far the most corrupt. Those guys went through the highest oil boom and what do we have to show for it?? Please just mention one thing we have to show for it. No infrastructural developments, loans were not cleared, no buoyant reserves, nothing, soldiers being sent to war without weapons. So if they weren't that corrupt, where did all the money go?

IBB "legitimized" corruption but he built, there are things today we can point to say this is IBB's work. Two significant ones, the third mainland bridge and development of Abuja. OBJ, say what you will, he cleared our debt. That helped a lot so to be in good standing with creditors for future loans and business. What he did can't be understated. I don't even want to touch on Abacha, I didn't like that guy for nothing.

What is GEJ's one lasting legacy we can talk about??

Ebola was one

Ioannes:
Jonathan's regime was by far the most corrupt this nation has ever seen with all these revelations coming out. there was and there is every reason to hate it.

that being said, I want to point out to you what Jonathan told us some years back. he said boko haram was in his government and he knows them. what stopped him from fishing them out
I mean can you imagine buhari coming out to tell us the same thing?

really, the US doesn't need to come and investigate anything. their intelligence-gathering methods are state-of-the-art. it is an open secret that their embassies in all countries operate more like spy stations.

that's why they destroy all documents if there's an invasion of their embassies.

they are well informed and I can assure you that all the money meant for arms stolen by gej and his cronies are all well documented.

GEJ's future actually rests with the American government. he can go to jail or be pardoned.

US just like politicians doesn't have permanent friends or foes. just permanent interests.

Nigeria should start planning for the next 50yrs if not 100yrs. military complex is fine and will position us as the undoubted leader of the African continent and a world player.

I disagree that Jonathan regime was the most corrupt, to me I followed the progress of the ministries very well, it was the most transparent government Nigeria has had, perhaps Jonathan was too trusting and naive but in all honesty he had a few good ideas but ultimately he was just incompetent and overwhelmed with the task. But the "corruption" is just propaganda, OBJ, IBB ABACHA, these were corrupt people but during Jonathan's regime you could get access to any financial information at all. The people under GEJ were likely the corrupt ones, as he delegates the jobs and money he never really, follows up. BTW, I think Nigeria deserves better presidents that all we have had so far, especially with so much intelligent Nigerians across the country.