₦airaland Forum

The electorate have woken up from slumber. Say no to godfatherism and elections violence.

With all due respect to Chief Obasanjo, he is one of the reasons why this country is not moving forward.

He is more concerned about being relevant and his personal interest than moving the country forward.

Prior to 2015 election, he was bent on bringing Sule Lamido to deputize Jonathan because he wanted to have a mole in the presidency when he could not break Jonathan's circle.

Before the five former recasistrant governors left PDP, they paid him a visit and him as a party stalwart could not advise them otherwise.

A good leader is mostly selfless because he places the interest of masses first. But here in our country, they only want to have their was no matter whose horse is gourd.

Sometimes I laugh at people who always liken his to late Mandela. The gap is too wide.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1191929434192783&id=100001272134505

Keep sharing this link till it gets to the present APC led federal government.

There was a country. I don't believe that this is coming from a person like Masari. Even when the truth is so glaring, the average nothern politicians still believes that the best type of politics is by propaganda and character assassination.

The much needed Nigerian revolution will start from the north. The last administration has laid the foundation by building schools for the almajiris their nothern modern day slaves.


After piloting the affairs of this country for 42 years out of the 56 years of our independence, without having any meaningful development in the north. They are still not grateful for South that used only 16years to liberate this country economically.

I still blame the southern politician like Jagaban, Amaechi and Co. who instead of maintaining the pace, went back to booth licking for their personal angradizement.

Quote me negatively if you hate the truth.

Is it not supposed to be script writer instead of screen writer at Funke Akindele's IG profile? ??.

Pictures from the venue of PDP convention in Portharcurt. This government is afraid of opposition. They need not fear if they are doing well. If they don't stop all these harassment, they may end up making Nigerians been sympathetic with PDP hence gaining the surport of majority of Nigerians.

This is a sound reasoning. This is the kind of people that can affect positive changes in our country but because of born to rule mentality, hatred for others and selfish interests Nigerians voted for an unlearned tyrant. Let us learn our lessons the hard way.

All of our TV stations and indeed our journalists should come and lean how to interview our politicians not this all government in power aX's licking journalism.

These patriotic young Nigerians can't get paid for putting in their best in a competition that took the NFF and the sports ministry a whole year or there about to plan.

But the federal government is quick to order the CBN to subsidise dollar to the Muslims who embarked on their personal religious visit to Mecca to the tune of about 10bn difference. What a country?

May be Siasia and the team Nigeria in Rio should abort this year's Olympic games and go to Mecca instead so that the government can give them urgent attention.

If this government does not want sports activities, why not come openly and say it?

The Karate Kid, The Patriot and The Passion of Christ. Each time I watched these movies, I become too emotional.

Ajibel:
I knew with BRF position in the 3 key ministries, Lagos would get lots of favours.

Now Lagos state has or intend to have how many seaports About 4 in total in the next 6 years.

The Lekki deep seaport is already ongoing.

To the Lagosian, this is a good development so they would say. But to every rational thinker and in the spirit of one Nigeria, this is more reasons why people will continue agitating for true federalism or brake up. A state with two seaports and counting is still given another seaport while the one in Calabar, Oneh and Onitsha is been aboudoned. This is unjustifiable, unfair, wicked and ungodly. This is sharp way telling the southeast and south south that they don't belong to this entity called Nigeria.

Now they still want to emulate the PDP by having an Economic team. Can't this APC do something differently with copying the past administration verbatim? So this people have no plans on how to move this nation forward except taking power from PDP

This is time for all that meant well for the country to speak up to avert a total break down of law and order. Most of the restiveness accros the country is due to one form of grievance or the other. People should talk some serious sense into this administration to lead us right. To the key board warriors, let us try as much as possible not sell our concience due to party affiliation. Most of these old men that are leading us today are already close to their graves, the future belongs to us. Which ever way we choose today, determine our destinies. Kudos to the punch newspaper.

"Your worst enemy could be your best friend "




Is there anything like blind trust?

By Obi Nwakanma Fifty years ago, on a Friday night at the Western Nigerian Governor’s lodge in Ibadan, a group of soldiers led by Major Theophilus Danjuma committed a terrible act of treason. They accosted their Commander-in-chief, Major-General Johnson Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and Military Head of state of Nigeria only six months in the making, stripped him of his epaulettes and his swagger stick shaped in the form of the Crocodile, and proceeded to arrest him and his host, the Military Governor of the West, Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi. These soldiers, some of them far too drug-addled, did not stop there. Aguiyi-Ironsi They proceeded to administer brutal beatings and a careless torture of the General, and the Governor, Colonel Fajuyi, supervised by T.Y. Danjuma, and Ironsi’s ADC, William Walbe. They did not stop there: bruised and much bloodied, these two men were later bound hand and feet, as legends would have it, and tied to a military truck driven by Jeremiah Useni, through the streets of Ibadan, and taken to that quiet spot on Iwo road, where they were murdered and buried in mean and shallow graves. Fajuyi was by then, nearly dead in any case, far too brutalized to endure any further humiliation. But Ironsi stood tall to the very end – the image of a great elephant enduring the beatings that accompanied him finally to the dug-spot. Accounts of Ironsi’s stolid, dignified and courageous handling of his brutal end come to us by a number of eye witnesses. He was travelling with then Colonel Hillary Njoku, Commander of the Lagos Garrison, in his entourage. They were upstairs in the Governor’s lodge when they sensed the change in the air, by the rustle of the mainly Northern troop that had been arranged for his guard detail. As soon as they noticed the mutiny afoot on the grounds of the Governor’s lodge in Ibadan, they quickly knew that they had only one shot at getting out there alive. Ironsi ordered Hillary Njoku to find his way out of the grounds and make contacts with his headquarters in Lagos to send some reinforcement. Meanwhile, he got through to Yakubu Gowon on the phone which were still working, to send a Helicopter for him. The Helicopter did not come. Gowon, Ironsi’s Chief of Staff, was busy issuing different orders to Danjuma in Ibadan, and apparently to Murtala Muhammed and Martin Adamu in Lagos, the arrowheads of that July mutiny. Neither did any reinforcement come. Just as he was attempting to sneak out of the Governor’s lodge, the mutineers saw Colonel Hillary Njoku, and fired shots at him. He escaped by scaling the fence of the Government House, but was so seriously injured he had to find his way to the University College Hospital, where he was treated. Northern soldiers pursued him to the hospital and ransacked the hospital, but Hillary Njoku had been hidden by the Igbo nurses on duty that day, and under the supervision of Dr. Eruchalu, was smuggled through the Igbo underground of Mokola, and smuggled to safety in the East. Ironsi’s fate was essentially sealed. His government fell, and he was killed and left to suppurate in a shallow grave for weeks. It was a fate ordained for him by the rapid turn of events between 1965, when he was appointed the General Officer and Supreme Commander of the Nigerian Armed Forces, after the expiry of the office of the British G.O.C, Major-General Welby-Evarard, and 1966, when a group of young officers, led by Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna, overthrew the civil government of the first republic, and murdered key political and military figures especially of the North and West in January 15, 1966. The lone Igbo casualty of that January coup, Colonel Arthur Chinyere Unegbe, the Nnewi-born Adjutant-General of the Army, is often forgotten in the grand narratives of that coup, because he does not fit the narrative of “an Igbo coup,” the grounds on which Ironsi was killed in what history has come to record as a “retaliation coup” by Northern officers of the Nigerian Army, whose aims were clearly revanchist rather than nationalist. The character of that coup continues to direct the character, political climate, and trajectory of Nigeria as a nation, even in this second decade of the 21st century. Ironsi was the grand bull offered to Moloch. When soldiers under his command sacked the first republic, Ironsi rallied the troops and ended the coup. But the acting President of the Federal Republic, Nwafor-Orizu, after consultation with the Council of Ministers ceded emergency power to Ironsi to defeat the mutiny, restore law and order, and then begin a transition back to a national civil government. Ironsi was in the midst of fulfilling this legal mandate when he was assassinated by discontented officers of the North, who feared that he was fulfilling an Igbo ethnic agenda to “dominate Nigeria” totally. They suspected and distrusted the administrative changes he was intent on making to unify a broken nation. They held him responsible for the “Igbo coup” of January 15th. They accused his government of hedging on trying the coup-plotters. They accused him of surrounding himself with Igbo officials, and above all, feared that a second wave of the “Igbo coup” was in the offing, aiming to wipe out the rest of the Northern officers. As it turned out, all these were false. But was there anything Ironsi could have done differently? Ironsi could certainly have chosen to be brutal and pitiless, but he chose toleration, civility, and openness. Ironsi’s has remained the most civil military administration in Nigeria. He brushed aside rumours of coup plots against him, and plans for open revolts in the North. In one famous case, when Alex Madiebo brought credible intelligence from the North about the plots against Ironsi, the General brought his chief of staff Gowon, Kam Salem, the Inspector General of police, and MD Yusuf, the Chief of the Police Special Branch, all Northerners, and Major Mobolaji Johnson, the Administrator of Lagos, and asked Madiebo to repeat his story about a plot to overthrow him, which they naturally, promptly denied, following which Ironsi dressed down Madiebo for “rumour-mongering.” Ironsi trusted the North. He dismissed any notion of a “Northern plot” against him. He grew up in the North. He spoke Champagne Hausa. He went to school in the North; he had many influential friends in the North, among them the princes of Sokoto; he loved the equestrian culture of the north, and he surrounded himself with Northern officers. Ironsi was the typical “cosmopolitan Igbo.” By all accounts also, Ironsi seemed to have reconciled with his “Chi” and accepted his fate in the end, and hoped his death would be a deep personal sacrifice, which would assuage the rage of the North, and reconcile Nigeria. This at least was what he told one of his oldest friends, the now equally late Dr. J.O.J. Okezie, who later became Nigeria’s minister of Health after the civil war. He seemed reconciled with the inevitability of his own fatality, except that he did not quite realize the dimensions it would take. Ironsi’s death was doubtlessly one of the remote factors that led to the Nigerian civil war. His somber burial in the East reflect the quiet and seething rage by which he was mourned (here is a video link to that event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NpBkpr1tTQ ) Account of Ironsi’s life has been finely documented in Chuks Iloegbunam’s biography of the General, Ironside, published by Press Alliance in 1999, and should be bedside reading for any literate Nigerian and on the reading list of any decent departments of Political Science, History, and Literature in Nigerian Universities. But this is sadly not the case because of the revisionist, anti-intellectual, and limited mission of Nigeria’s public education, particularly at the tertiary level. In any case, my point is that Mr. Iloegbunam has documented Ironsi’s life so well that I could hardly say more. General Ironsi was a man of great historical accomplishments, whose standing in Nigerian history in which he recorded many firsts – first Nigerian Commander of an International Military force; first Nigerian General of the Legion, First Nigerian General Officer and Supreme Commander of the Army, and first Nigerian Military Head of state – stands so tall that every other who came after him pales beside him.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/aguiyi-ironsi/

Why not go for leather seats ? These seats can get worn out in no time.

Add for married people only. Please! !!!!!!

Women and their wahala, men give you time , they are choking you. They call once in a while, they don't have time for you. Which way now?

People are quick to advise you to quit, but they don't know the bond you have shared together that makes the young man being too fond of you. Look inwards and see the other side of the man. If he is hard working, cares for you and honest, go ahead with him, except one is pretending, no man that is true in love that is not possessive. If you are not jelously in love, you are not there yet.

The Big Boss, may Almighty God grant your soul eternal rest. Amen

Was going through twitter and stumbled on this tweet by the APC handle does the party still feel the same way two years on ........

The naira as at today is the third worse performing currency in the world

https://www.thecable.ng/its-official-naira-now-africas-worst-performing-currency-of-2016



The Federal Govt has declared that it has no money for capital votes , the much publicized budget of "change" has only seen about 3 % implementation.
But I thought they found 1 billion Dollars in the soak away? What happened to the pseudo loot recovery

http://www..ng/2016/07/15/dont-money-release-capital-projects-fg/




Food scarcity is at an all time high Kano indigenes are already swapping their children for bags of rice, not a grain of corn or tomato seed was provided to farmers . Fertilizer subsidy taken away and handed back to ex-military men the entire work done by Dr Akinwumi Adeshina has been destroyed in less than 1 year and the ministry of Agriculture has been reduced to a unit for grass importation.

http://ynaija.com/man-uses-son-collateral-bag-rice-kano/




For over 1 year the man did not construct a single kilometer of road the only construction to his credit was a helipad in Daura.

http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/buharis-daura-helipad-could-cost-nigeria-500000/

APC promised 20,000 MW of electricity, they doubled tariffs but Nigerians end up paying double for darkness

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/02/02/well-generate-20000mw-of-electricity-in-4-years-says-buhari/

In healthcare not even a single Ward wad added to any Hospital in Nigeria, except for the fact that the one who promised no to go abroad for treatment went to the UK to treat an ear infection.

The APC promised to create 3 million jobs per annum sadly in just 10 months of their govt 4.3 Million jobs were lost according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
The only job APC created were the illegal spaces they created for Children of their leaders in CBN
FIRS etal


Nigeria dropped from No.1 Investment destination in Africa to No. 27 before South Sudan. How we started competing with South Sudan is something that has defied any explanation, Africas Biggest economy shrank from a GDP growth of about 7% to -0.36%, the fastest decline in the world since record began sending us into recession for the first time in 3 decades.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/22-45m-nigerians-unemployed-job-loss-hits-710693/




APC will be quick to shout that PDP stole all the money but let's check the facts on ground

Buhari was handed over:
- $30billion in our Foreign Reserves,
- $2.5billion Sovereign Wealth Fund,
- $1.4billion in the ECA,
- $4.65b back taxes from NLNG.

- $2.1billion world bank loan.
- $850million Grants from UK, USA and Europe.
- Excluding crude oil sales, Joint Venture profits, Royalties, Income from Customs, NIMMSA, NPA, NACHO ......
- 3trilion on TSA


The APC has no excuse for such a terrible score card,

APC leaders are more interested in propaganda and media crucifixion than delivering on their promises , sadly many Nigerians have become willing vessels for promotion of falsehood and
Strangulation of the truth , it is only in a country like Nigeria that man like Oshiomole a leader in the ruling party will blame a Former President for his inability to visit this village despite his party being in power for the second year !

Today those who voted because of the 5000 fake monthly stipend have seen the consequences of their actions, those who used their kids as poster children for the Free School meal are witnesses of the free chicken and fried rice being shared to children in public school's.

As Nigerians continues to bear the excruciating pains of the inhumane policies of the APC especially the conscienceless increase in pms & kerosene pump prices, gluttons like Femi Adeshina who are now conversant with eating free food at aso rock cafeteria must refrain from further provoking citizens with unguarded utterances and foolish blabbing.

Nigerians are strong people, they have survived many tyrannical regimes in the past and they will live to tell this story, I just hope we will learn this time and take this tweet advice from the APC.

May the Monarch of Heaven continue to Bless our great Nation Nigeria.


Main Source: www.twitter.com/APCNigeria

Can someone please dispute these facts. This is what I call constructive criticism not verbal abuses that is so common in this forum.

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Always trying to answer questions ask by the teacher on the subjects I choose . For e.g. Arts subjects.

She is a nekadbrity. Operation show your unclothed body, decency has eluded our lady in showbiz.

]Go say that to your APC governors that took the last administration to court because they never wanted the administration to save for rainy days. Now that they have got what they wanted and spent same on your campaign, try and use EFCC your watch dog to probe them. When you are done, Nigerians will know that you genuinely fighting corruption.

Go say that to your APC governors that took the last administration to court because they never wanted the administration to save for rainy days. Now that they have got what they wanted and spent same on your campaign, try and use EFCC your watch dog to probe them. When you are done, Nigerians will know that you genuinely fighting corruption.

The rich also cry. I no dey easy. Big man big trouble.

LOL

Look at ekweremadu in Igbo native attire seeking to elicit sympathy and support from Igbos who have not benefited anything from him in his 8 years in NASS.

Baba carry your cross o

Ekweremadu by appearing in court today with Igbo traditional attire, is not seeking anybody's
Sympathy. He has always been proud of his identity. For your information, he represents his constituency well. The records are there to speak for him . He is gallant politician and a dogged fighter. He will sail through the storm God willing.

Government of the media by the media and for the media. This APC led government self. Hmmm. Just scraping of the road and Buhari has achieved what Jonathan could not achieve for six years.

The London of Naija.

This is sad. RIP to the innocent child.