₦airaland Forum

caukerzee: just shut up if u have nothing educative to say. I stay in plateau and most of the news about killings are media propagated. The city of jos is as much a war zone as any other southern city at present.

Demdem: Because Obj did it doesn't make it right. Probably this should be tested in a court of law.

Noblechyk: then, u don't know wat state of emergency is all about as there is fixed way to it. D only difference here is d management of d state resources which is better in d hand of a civillian than a military. It's so dangerous for military to total control of a state under dis circumstance let alone 3 states. However, the reason for SOS 'll stil b achieved with d retianing of d state governors. Imagine where a soldier inside d government house or in d governor's security details won't take orders from d governor. Does dat make any sense to u?

15.The details of this Proclamation will be transmitted to the National Assembly in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution. But in the meantime, let me make it clear that within the purview of this Proclamation, the Governors and other political office holders in the affected states will continue to discharge their constitutional responsibilities.

The Yobe state Governor Ibrahim Gaidam has thrown his weight behind the imposition of state of emergency in the state by President Good luck Jonathan A statement issued by the Special Adviser to the Governor onMedia and Information, Abdullahi Bego, said the Governor agrees with Mr President on the imposition of state of emergency in the state as there is no alternative to peace.
“As everyone knows, there is no alternative to peace. The Yobe state Government therefore agrees with Mr President on the need to take more effective measures to address the problem of insecurity in the country” the statement says.
Governor Gaidam while supporting the decision of President Jonathan expressed regret that over the past few years, the problems of insecurity and criminality in the state and other states of the north have led to many deaths and injuries thereby causing untold hardship to millions of innocent people.
While calling on the good people of the state to be law abiding and to go about their normal business, the statementfurther said “the Gaidam led administration like always will continue to partner with security agents to ensure normalcy is restored across the state.
“The Governor assures the public that the state government will continue to work closely with the security agents and will ensure that the conduct reflects the spirit of the emergency declaration by Mr President and the rules of the engagement specified for that purpose.”
The Governor therefore calls on the people of the state not torelent in praying to Almighty God for the restoration of peaceand security in the state and the country in general.
Governor Gaidam’s decision is sequel to the declaration of state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states widely believe as stronghold of the radical Islamic sects the Boko Haram.
The recent declaration of state of emergency in the three states brings to four since the restoration of democracy in Nigeria in 1999 as plateau went through similar rule during the Obasanjo administration.

15.The details of this Proclamation will be transmitted to the National Assembly in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution. But in the meantime, let me make it clear that within the purview of this Proclamation, the Governors and other political office holders in the affected states will continue to discharge their constitutional responsibilities. .

berem: I wonder where this new brotherly love between the SS and SE will lead to. Am watching with keen interest.

By SaharaReporters, New York
General Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that members of the opposition will no longer be intimidated by the Federal Government.
The retired general, who spoke at the national convention of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Abuja today, said gone were the days when the government would instigate crisis during an election to scare away members of the opposition.
From now on, he underlined, not only would votes be counted, the opposition will not allow the government to deceive Nigerians that it is not behind election crises it has created.
"We will no longer be intimidated", he stressed.
He pointed out that Nigeria is already drifting hopelessly and that anarchy is visible in some parts of the country, with the government unable to find any meaningful solution.
He drew attention to some areas of the nation he described as “virtual war zones” in a country supposedly at peace, with entire local governments in the North-East now no-go areas even to representatives of constituted authority.
"Marauders of every description armed to the teeth with all manner of sophisticated armaments roam the national landscape with total and murderous impunity,” he said. “The patience of thisnation and the various communities within it has been severely tried and stretched to its limits. And there is no end in sight.”
He regretted that anarchy is knocking on the door of many sections of this country while the Federal Government has not demonstrated it has the good sense to understand what is going let alone the competence to check it.
“The nation is hopelessly adrift,” General Buhari said. "There is unprecedented fall in the nation's standard and an astronomical rise in the standard of dying."
Taunting President Goodluck Jonathan's Transformation Agenda, he observed that it has, within the space of three years, transformed the country into a veritable wilderness “Where verything that should work, doesn't; where everything that can getbroken, has".

Sunny_bobo: Tell them to get registered first before making noise. This link might also be of interest to you; https://www.nairaland.com/1286918/tricked-us-into-fighting-igbos

Ogbonaikenna: Let them enjoy their one nigeria.

BY PETER DURU MAKURDI
No fewer than 100 women, children and Tiv farmers have reportedly been slaughtered in the last two weeks by invadingFulani herdsmen, following the renewed bloodbath and invasion of Tiv communities in Guma Local Government area of Benue State by Fulani herdsmen.
Immediate past Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, and member representing Guma State Constituency, David Iorhemba made this known yesterday in an interview with newsmen in Makurdi.
Iorhemba lamented that despite efforts to stem the crisis in the hinterland of the state, cases of silent killings and destruction of property were still being reported by the natives adding that in his village at Yogbo, no fewer than 26 persons were allegedly murdered by the Fulani marauders in the last few days. He lamented that the crisis was taking its toll on farmers in the affected communities as farm land and crops had been destroyed, making it difficult to get seedlings for planting this farming season.
He said, ‘’the invasion of my constituency in Guma Local Government area by Fulani herdsmen is alarming. It is like a deliberate move to wipe out the Tiv race; it is unfortunate that our people will become refugees in their fatherland as a result of incessant Fulani invasion.
”As I am talking to you now, the areas have been deserted. You know that we are farmers in this part of the country; on aweekly basis, the herdsmen invade our lands, rape our women found in the farms, slaughter our men and deprive us of our ancestral home.
”Our people cannot farm this season because apart from destroying there farm lands and crops, many of our people have now become refugees in Makurdi because of the fear of the Fulani.”

Just yesterday night (Wednesday ) a woman and her son werereported killed around Atteh by the Fulani,” he said, and accused the people living in border villages in Nasarawa Stateof harboring the herdsmen.
According to him, ‘’it is unfortunate that our neighbors in Nasarawa State accommodate these marauders from where they move to our villages to unleash terror on us. If you move around you will discover that no Fulani is living around the border.’’
Iorhemba further said that there was no way the Tivs and Fulanis could live together because of their type of jobs noting, ‘’we are farmers while the Fulani are cattle rear-res, so is better we part ways.’’
While commending the efforts of both the Nasarawa and Benue State governments to stem the crisis through the joint peace committee set up in 2011, Iorhemba suggested that the security personnel attached to the hinterland in Tiv land should be dispatched to the border areas to prevent the incursion of the Fulanis into the Tiv villages.
He, however, urged the Federal Government to create grazing routes for the Fulani herdsmen in order to stem recurring bloodbaths in rural communities across the country.

Sincere 9gerian: I thought I should remind us of the following for the benefit of some Nigerians with selective amnesia and those Nigerians who are always progressing in the REVERSE (ie their yesterday is ALWAYS better than today):

1 It was the govt of Yar Adua that stopped the NIPP power projects started by OBJ govt because of sentiments about location

2 The Yar Adua govt reversed the privatisation of the refineries

3 It was the reduction in pump price of fuel by Yar Adua govt that triggered increase in fuel subsidy payments. The OBJ govt was perpetually increasing fuel price thus ensuring near parity between the landing cost of fuel and pump price. That parity was lost by price reduction in 2007 and lack of change in price until 2012. Check out the pattern of fuel subsidy payments below:
* N261.105 billion was spent on fuel subsidy in 2006
* N278.859 billion in 2007
* N630.571 billion in 2008
* N463.517 billion in 2009
* N673 billion in 2010
* about N2trillion in 2011
* about N1trillion in 2012
* about N1trillion has been budgeted for fuel subsidy in 2013
http://www.ghanamma.com/2012/03/pppra-neiti-reconcile-fuel-subsidy-expenditure/

4. Elections conducted under Yar Adua was as worse as that conducted by OBJ. The 2009 Ekiti gubernatorial re-run election readily comes to mind. That election was so controversial that the REC, madam Ayoka, had to disappear and late re-appeared to announce PDP as winner. The ACN made all their NOISE as usual and later went to court.

5 Yar Adua terminated railway contracts awarded by OBJ govt (though OBJ awarded those contracts very late in his administration). Between 2007 and 2009 NOTHING was happening on the railways. By late 2009, Yar Adua govt re-awarded contracts for railway rehabilitation, but that was about the same time that his health deteriorated

6 It was under the Yar Adua govt that the Boko haram mayhem went out of control due to killing of its leader

7 It was during the Yar Adua govt that the then minister of works, Deziani, wept on the dilapidated Benin-Ore road. NOTHING was done about that road until Yar Adua died.

8 It was during Yar Adua regime that the then governor of Imo state, Ohakim, tried to mobilize Ndigbos to contribute N100 per head to fix dilapidated sections of Onitsha- Owerri road. That road remained death trap until Yar Adua died.

8 It was under Yar Adua, that Gbenga Arulegba, the presenter of Focus Nigeria on AIT, was yanked off the programme due to pressure from federal agents. Gbenga Arulegba was punished for reporting the purchase of fairly used presidential jet as new ones

8 Chief James Ibori was said to have nominated the then head of EFCC. Ibori was also well protected by the govt

9 It was Yar Adua that sacked Ribadu as EFCC head.

10 It was Yar Adua that chased El Rufai into exile

I can go on and on. Note, it does not mean that nothing good happened under Yar Adua govt, eg the issue of amnesty for Niger Delta militants

Ayoakinkahunsi: Funny die
What is their gods doing in a christian house?
May God deliver the pastor and his family

abdulkayus: am Yoruba, bt i dont think Yoruba are nt trustworthy, bt i dont knw y dey tend to align wit d north so much. If all d south can unit very well and den couple wit middle belt too, wallahi, d core north will be dealt a deadly blow dat it will be hard for dem to recover cos even among dem too, d northern xtains are nt happy wit dem. D northern leaders are usin d division of d south to there advantages.