₦airaland Forum

OriOko88:
You're saying absolutely trash ogbeni.

I am sure you never heard of the Byzantine Empire which was the first fundamentalist Christian state.

I am sure you never knew that there exists a millinea long feud between the Catholic church and the Eastern Orthodoxy.


I am sure you are not aware that the first crusades were meant to wrestle control of Palestine from the Byzantine empire .

But go ahead and swallow in your ignorance

1Alex:
This is what happens when emotion replaces evidence. Instead of addressing the real criticism, that many Nigerians question the timing of a trillion-naira highway during a severe cost-of-living crisis, you invented an ethnic conspiracy with zero proof.

People can support infrastructure and still question priorities. That's called accountability, not jealousy.

The irony is that you accuse others of tribalism while reducing every policy debate to "Igbos are against it." If your argument cannot survive without ethnic scapegoating, then it was never an argument in the first place, it was prejudice dressed up as analysis.

But you supported the FG building a new bridge over the Niger but when it comes to investing in the region that lays the golden eggs, you oppose it.

FYI, that coastal highway will see to massive economic activities and growth in the restive and lawless creeks and coastal ways where kidnappers and pirates have turned to their base..

Opening that long stretch of coastal land will also see to growth of the fishery industry

Fishermen can now have a direct access to Africa's most populous capital .

Tourism will thrive.

Maritime activities will get a massive boost.

The economy of the SS will see to diversification which will result in less communal uprising.

It's a project that was supposed to have happened 50ys ago if we had visionary leaders.

Nigeria's coastal borders are over 800km and only tiny Lagos is occupied .

If this infrastructure can bring just ten percent of investments Lagos gets, do you know how transformative it will be for the people , states and regions this project is covering?

This is the only solid road project that will bring an almost economic boom .

How has that road linking your village to the capital of your state brought any meaningful development?

You want a project that will translate to an economic boom to be scrapped for what exactly?

1Alex:
I reacted to the grammar, not the topic. If I understood the comment, I would have reacted accordingly.

Ignorance is bliss.

Yes, you can claim in court that you don't understand the line of questioning when in the dock.

nduchucks:
My version of Letter of appreciation by Patrick.

The Executive Mansion,
Aso Rock Villa,
Abuja, Nigeria.

For the Attention of:
His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR,
President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

​Your Excellency,

​A PANEGYRIC OF APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF PATRICK AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (STRATEGY & COMMERCIAL) OF THE NIGER DELTA POWER HOLDING COMPANY (NDPHC)

​I am compelled by a deep sense of patriotic duty and unvarnished gratitude to address this missive to your August office. This is not a time for political grandstanding, neither is it a season for subterranean grandiloquence. It is, instead, a moment for an unadulterated, cerebral, and deep-seated appreciation for a masterstroke of administrative sagacity.

​I level up this correspondence to convey my profound and gargantuan appreciation to Your Excellency for the recent, highly meritorious appointment of Patrick as the Executive Director, Strategy & Commercial, of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC).

​To say that this appointment is a square peg in a square hole is to indulge in a banal understatement.

It is an appointment that resonates with macroscopic vision and microscopic precision. By this singular act, Your Excellency has not only demonstrated a colossal commitment to the economic rejuvenation of our nation's energy infrastructure, but you have also sent a pellucid signal that meritocracy, technocratic savvy, and intellectual gravitas are the bedrock of your Renewed Hope agenda.

​His trajectory has been one of unyielding dedication to excellence, and placing me at the strategic nexus of the NDPHC is a validation of my capacity to deliver.

This is a gargantuan task, no doubt, but given my pedigree, I have no modicum of skepticism that he will discharge his responsibilities with Copernican dedication and administrative wizardry.

He will undoubtedly bring to bear a clinical efficiency that will help illuminate the dark alleys of our national grid.

​Your Excellency, your leadership continues to defy the pessimistic prognostications of political cassandras. By seeking out high-caliber minds to man critical sectors of our commonwealth, you are building an enduring monument of progress.

​May the Grand Architect of the Universe continue to endow you with Solomon-like wisdom, robust health, and iron-clad political will as you navigate the complex ship of the Nigerian state through these turbulent economic waters.

​Please accept, Your Excellency, the assurances of my highest and most distinguished esteem.

​Yours Phenomenally,
​Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon (Esq.)
(The Son of the Soil)

Tinubu, abeg try review this appointment .

This guy go use grammar scatter his office .

1Alex:
If I say I understood one thing from your grammar, then I am a big liar.

Your comment is a perfect example of why clarity matters. It's a pile of buzzwords held together by broken grammar and unsupported assumptions.

"General pattern," "duplicitous," "dominate others", big words, zero evidence. You didn't address a single point that was raised; you just threw around vague accusations and hoped they'd sound profound.

Next time, spend less time reaching for a thesaurus and more time constructing a coherent argument. Right now, your sentence reads like autocorrect gave up halfway through.

And you ended up saying nothing whatsoever.

1Alex:
did igbo people as a group announce that they are against state police?

Oby has since rejected it without any coherent reason.

Obi claims it will be used to influence the outcome of the 2027 elections even though before any state police can become fully operational it will take at least 2ys after the Police Bill is passed.

NINAS - a pro Biafran group rejected the state police on same useless grounds of deflecting to Fulani jihadists.

Most Ibo posters here all universally reject state police for other states outside their region but hypocritically support ESN.

What does that tell you.

lawani:
Some Igbos do not support state police is the right statement. I hear Delta state assembly has voted for it and many of them are Igbos. Until the SE votes against it before you can say Igbos are against state police

How can Delta state assembly deliberate on state police when the Senate is yet to review and finally approve the bill sent to it by the House of Reps?

Why you dey lie?

Besides, outside Asaba , how many Delta North people identify as Ibo?

TopBanter:
I like your presence here. You dish out cold truth and fact with almost every single post.

The bolded is 💯% correct and Malami tried to abet it but Yoruba leaders, led by Akeredolu, would not back down. RIP to that leader.

It is all about covetous expansionism for them and the core North. I.e "my own no dey enough for me and I must take your own". They think people cannot read their real agenda and insincerity.

I said here once that independence meant different things to the three major tribes

The Yoruba were not keen on joining an independent Nigeria and wanted out before independence. And that mindset is why Yorubas never denied the minorities in the western region their rights to have their own region in 1963 under the Midwestern region.

The Fulani hegemony saw independence as cue to restart their halted jihad that had ambitions to deep their blood soaked swords into the Atlantic. This is why Sardunna rejected any notion of Middle belt region and came out with the slogan "one north".

As per the Ibos, independence meant a continuation of colonialization only with them as the new overlords and that's why they refused to let the minority people in the East leave.

It's all down to how the Fulani and the Ibo see Nigeria and other Nigerians to conquer , subjugate and lord over.

A group of Orsu elders addressed a press conference in Lagos to highlight their plight under the terrorist grouo that is ESN.

They narrated how vandalism, arson , rapes, abductions, sodomy rape, murders committed by ESN had resulted in no less than 5,000 of their people murdered

A thread of that press conference was posted here and you need to see how Ipob supporters here were all blasting the elders of Orsu as paid FG agents .

They are not even bothered that ESN has been busy murdering and raping their own people - that's a sacrifice they are willing to make on the backs of the victims .

ESN did not secure the SE. They turned it into a killing field.

But you will see them still blindly supporting these criminals because it is a militia in the making that is needed for Biafra expansionism.

If ESN had no qualms murdering and raping their own, I wonder what fate awaits us in the SS whose lands have been earmarked by Kanu as "their property".

Was this not how Ojukwu's rogue Biafran soldiers went about terrorising the minority people they claimed they had come to liberate them from Fulani jihad?

TopBanter:
Indeed. All about covetous expansionism bro. At a time many Nigerians are beginning to accept we must go and build our societies as we wish, as indigenes, in our respective States and regions, because we are very different and adversarial, it is them moving for greater influence and assimilation in the land of others. Covetous expansionism.

State Policing is badly needed because of the simple concept it will be populated by indigenes who will be patriotically passionate about the security of their land and people.

They and the core North are the only ones vociferously against it because of covetous expansionism.

The loudest opposition to Ametokun came from the Fulani north.

Their reasons are apparent because they rightly saw a vigilante militia backed by state legislation as a threat to their banditry and lawless herders.

Same thing with why the Ibo people are now against state policing.

myk2mic:
Not completely true, the first crusade was as a result of a cry for help from the church in the Arab world , unfortunately when the arrived they could not tell between Jews ,xtians and moslems and slaughtered everyone and due to starvation stared feeding on humans.but after that first crusade it was politics and there was one of the crusades that the team left there primary mission and helped a king to over throw another king. Out of 4 crusades only the first one was "successful". The other were disasters filled with infighting, starvation, and lack of morale.

That's what you have been told .

Prior to the first crusades ordered by Rome, Muslims were a minority and the entire Palestine was under the Byzantine empire.

There was no Muslim ruling over Palestine and Jerusalem before the first crusades and there was actually a Muslim minority in Jerusalem and all Palestine.


When the Muslim General, Saladin took Jerusalem, he handed over the keys to the Church that was built on the hill Jesus was crucified to a Muslim family.

Why did he do this ?

Because the Catholic faithfuls had seized the church as theirs following the first crusade by Rome.

Saladin ordered that both orthodox and Catholics should share the church but that it will be held in trust by a Muslim family to keep the peace.

That family lineage are still the ones in custody of that church.

1Alex:
claiming that "they are against state police" is another sweeping generalization. People hold different views on state policing for different reasons. You don't get to lump millions of people into one imaginary bloc just because it suits your narrative.

it's ironic to accuse others of rewriting history while doing exactly that yourself. Criticize ESN if you want. Debate its legality if you want. But don't manufacture motives you can't prove and then argue against your own fiction. That's not analysis, it's fan fiction.

It's not a generalisation, most if not all Ibo posters here are against state policing and have duly registered their displeasure over the police amendment act ongoing by the Senate.

You sef is just playing to the gallery.

Do you support state police for other regions outside your SE?

Answer me this question.

madridguy:
I hope every governors in Yoruba land make sure their state police officers are 100% Yoruba.

Fulanis in Miyetti were able to get the Hausa vigilante group Yankassai proscribed as a terrorist group and most of their members killed or jailed.

Now you know.

They will tell you that ESN was set up by Kanu to deal with the Fulani menace but will somehow reject the notion of a state police for both their region and other regions especially in the SS and SW.

Why,?

Because ESN was never a vigilante force but a Biafra militia being built towards invading and conquering the adjourning SS.

If ESN was truly setup to tackle Fulani terrorists, why have we never heard of ESN ever attacking Fulani terrorists that used to terrorise places in Enugu bordering Kogi and Benue states?

They are the ones against state policing because they see it as a barrier to any future expansionism by them.

ElevationD:
Stop playing yasef wayo.

If you never supported Buhari and you now support Tinubu who said “I am Buhari”, is that not pure wayo or self delusion?

You looked at the options in 2023 and chose Tinubu, cementing the wayo life. Now look at it. You now face Buhari pro max. What’s better between what BAT/Buhari pro max has brought and bull crap? Buhari was your messiah in 2014 and seeing the horrors since, you denied him, supporting his pro max version. Leave wayo, make wayo leave you.

Whatever Tinubu said to assuage northerners who voted for him is his usual political business talk .

Is Tinubu not dealing with the Buhari cabal so much so they financed a failed uprising under the fake End Bad Governance protests and later financed a failed coup to overthrow him .

Whatever of the ADC that had all Buhari cabal members running to to try their luck in uprooting Buhari through the ballot?

Tinubu has never been close to the cabal who did everything to insult him throughout Buhari's disastrous 8ys .

I know it's hard for you to see someone who never voted Buhari now supporting Tinubu.

See me as a Wike.

The crusaders was a covet war between Western Rome Vs the Byzantine Fundamental Christian Empire to the East located in today's Turkey.

The crusaders went to war on the blessings of the Pope to rid Palestine of ancient Eastern Orthodox churches and it's people.

The Muslims were never a factor .

It was a war instigated by the Pope to wrest control of what was then a critical choke point in global land trade between Europe and Asia minor and North Africa.

The earliest churches in Palestine were all built by the Byzantine empire and were of the Eastern Orthodox sect who did not subscribe to the veneration of the virgin Mary and the authority of the Pope in Rome.

The first church is always falsely ascribed to the Roman Catholic church.

This is not true .

The first church is the Eastern Orthodox church that does not subscribe to the Pauline doctrine of celibacy and the heretic teachings of venerating the Madonna aka Virgin Mary which is actually a Roman pagan goddess of fertility. Hence , the woman and a child idol which Catholics bow and worship.

Most don't know that Western Rome headed by the Pope waved a war against the Eastern Byzantium empire for centuries over dominance.

The crusades were ordained by the Pope to deny the Eastern Orthodox church any claims to Palestine.

The first crusaders severely dealt with the majority Orthodox Christians and did not allow them to worship in their churches.

This was the outcome of the first crusade and it was framed as a holy war to rid Palestine of Muslims despite the overwhelming population being Christians who were never under any subjugation or domination by the Muslim minorities.

It was all down to the Catholic church getting complete control of Palestine and evicting all orthodox Christians from the land in other to deny legitimacy of the Orthodox church and to ensure all future pilgrimages (big business back then) was for only Catholics .

It was only after the Muslim conquest that all orthodox churches were restored to the rightful owners.

This was what then led to the so-called second crusade which was now down to ridding Palestine of the Muslims.

Ijaws should calm down abeg.

The wahala that they caused in Warri, the town has not recovered from ever since.

ElevationD:
Thank you for that. So you have confirmed it all with the word “disaster”.

Tinubu said “I am Buhari”, remember? By those words, always remember that BAT is Buhari himstlf. So if the name Buhari remains, it automatically means the word disaster continues. Thank you for conceding to the fact that Buhari and “I am Buhari” na disaster.

Funny you.

I never supported Buhari ever in my life.

I never supported or voted for Tinubu.

I am an objective bi-partisan spectator who knows when to call bullshit when he sees it and your Obi is oozing of freshly dropped bull crap just as Buhari was marketed as a Messiah that had all of Nigeria's solutions , so also is your Obi being marketed.

I only became a supporter of Tinubu because the options are terrible and so far Tinubu is doing the right thing.

Justrite007:
It might not be kidnapping or armed robbery case

State CID investigate serious crimes.

Every armed robbery , kidnapping, murder case gets transferred to state CID.

State CID is where you will find the crop of Nigerian Police officers and they are the ones who handle serious cases.

Goo0dHardDick:
I went to the market 2 days ago and I saw lots of people gathered in a shop directly opposite the store where I was purchasing an item.

According to the story, policemen on mufti came all the way from Anambra State to make arrest here in SS region. They were from State CID, anambra police department or however they call it. The policemen tracked a lost phone to someone, who directed them to the person who sold it to him (with receipt), who in turn took them to the shop where he got the phone. Now the seller (the shop owner) must have bought the phone from someone a long time ago and probably because it was so cheap, he went ahead to seal the deal and then in turn sold it out.

Now the case is complicated because the seller (the shop owner) bought that phone from someone who he doesn't even know, and obviously has no receipt either. The policemen has been tracking the phone for probably over a month now until they tracked it down to SS region here and made arrest. Right now, both the buyer, the middleman and the seller have all been taken to anambra police division same day the arrest was made. Nobody knows if the phone was stolen or the original owner of the phone was kidnapped, killed or attacked.

Be careful and avoid phones without receipts, wether you're a phone seller or a customer going to purchase a phone.

For Force CID to come down from Anambra down to SS over a stolen phone know that it involves kidnapping or armed robbery.

No be small case be this .

ElevationD:
He cannot market himself to people, yet he scored 6.1 million votes, going by what he was awarded in 2023.

The disaster that is Buhari scored more than that amount of votes.

So pls

I know someone who is serving a life sentence for armed robbery because the phone he bought and resold was stolen during a fatal armed robbery .

He was repairing phones by the street corner and was into buying and reselling phones when he was approached by some random dude that had a smart phone to sell. He bought it and later sold it to someone else.

When the phone was tracked , it all came back to him and he could not provide who he bought it from. He was convicted as being part of the armed robbery gang that murdered someone for their phone.

Let me even let you know that the Nigerian Police will not act immediately a stolen phone report is lodged at their station.

They will collect details of your stolen phone and money for tracking it but will not act immediately.

Usually they will be tracking the device for months after you lodge your complaint of a stolen phone and from their end they can see how many different individuals have used the phone by tracking the SIM inserted in it.

The Nigerian Police will wait until they have at least 10 people who the phone has passed through their use and begin picking them up one by one and they will say the originally owner of the phone was murdered in an armed robbery operation.

Woe betide you if you don't provide the immediate person that sold the phone to you and just know you will part with nothing less than 500k to bail yourself out from that wahala.

By the time the first thief is arrested they will contact the original owner to show up and claim the phone was stolen at gunpoint even if it was not the case.

So that's why I tell anyone that if you see even a non smart phone on the ground , do not pick it up to try to resell it.

Have nothing to do with it as you never knew if it was ditched by the thief..

Jakumo:
In this age of the drone, now officially kicked off by the tech gurus of Nigeria's Ogun and Lagos State police commands who recently executed an audacious and unprecedented kidnap rescue operation that took place within hours of the first alarm being raised by distress phone calls to law enforcement, the following are the THREE steps that are guaranteed to end all ransom kidnap abductions within a matter of hours.

1. The newly-formed Nigerian State police or regional DSS should publish emergency Phone Tracing Hotline numbers that should be contacted IMMEDIATELY by any person who receives a telephoned ransom phone call that is placed using the handset belonging to a relative or acquaintance.

2. Once the police or DSS are supplied with any phone number that has moments earlier been used to place a kidnap ransom demand, the precise geographical location from where that ransom phone call was placed, can be determined with tremendous accuracy by the police, who can then forward those GPS coordinates to the operators of quick response drones that can then be launched to loiter above the area where that phone was used, peering down through the tree canopy with body-heat-sensing cameras that will locate all people who are concealed under any tree canopy shrouding the area where that ransom phone call was made.

3. Special forces can be flown by helicopter into close proximity of the abductees and kidnappers' location, to drop well-armed officers at sufficient distance from the target zone to remain undiscovered until it is too late. While those special forces position themselves in ambush formations along all possible escape routes, the main police attack force can be trucked into the area to commence a concentrated direct frontal attack on the kidnappers, while being guided by the special forces already hiding close to the targets, AND by the loitering drone above.

To the more jaded readers of this forum who are prone to skepticism, the above three steps might seem unattainable by the Nigerian law enforcement community. To those doubters, the recent rescue of five kidnap victims beside the Benin to Shagamu Expressway in Ogun State within hours of their initial abduction, is a textbook example of how steps 1 , 2 and 3 above can he put into action.

To the public at large, your very FIRST step if ever you receive a kidnap ransom demand phone call, is to contact the police and supply the phone number that was used to contact you with that ransom demand. This can be done even BEFORE a dedicated phone tracing number is ever published by law enforcement. With that, repose your trust in the forces of the newly constituted State Police, to bring your loved ones home safely after neutralizing the bad guys, who will never know what hit them.

You think the DSS and Police don't know the exact location of every Fulani kidnappers den?

The issue isn't locating where the hostages are held.

It is how to release them unharmed from their crazed and heavily armed kidnappers who will not hesitate to kill all hostages if they sense an impending raid on their location.

The reason why both Fulani and BH/ISWAP continuously kidnap people is to use them as human shields to prevent the Nigerian air force from bombing their locations.

The hostages serve one critical purposes above all which is to provide a human shield .

Samstar4now:
It amazes me to see how people think the masses are stupid.This is not about being obedient or batified, we don't care. We only want a better Nigeria and anybody is an option except this present govt. People are passing through a lot and some id**ts are here playing politics with our lives and well-being. If you have sold your soul or conscience, that's your business but don't think everyone is like you. 2027 is not far. Let's see watch another drama

A better Nigeria under who?

Your Giringori that can not articulate his plans to Nigerians he is canvassing their votes for?

There's a saying in corporate that if you can't draw a convincing market pitch, you can't expect a product to be successful.

Your obi can't even market himself to the electorate and he remains widely rejected in the north .

How can such an individual provide real change ?

Pizza is junk food if you think about it.

But today, the Pizza industry is a multi billion dollar industry with several multi national corporate franchises.

This only happened when poor Italian immigrants with nothing but the shirts on their backs settled in the East coast of the US and started a humble business using cheap food ingredients.

The Hamburger is originally from Germany and became a global sensation it is today by the efforts of poor German immigrants setting up the first hamburger stands in New York.

Chinese food today is globally recognised because of poor Chinese immigrants who opened up small Mom and Pop Chinese restaurants. Today, Chinese takeouts or dinning is a choice among many Americans .

Mexican migrants opened up Tortilla and Taco stands in the late 50s and today , Taco Bell is a major fast food brand in the US that is now spreading to Asia and Europe.

Our Youth are only interested in arguing whose version of jollof rice is best between us and that of Ghana and Senegal.

Akara and sour fermented corn meal aka pap sourced from the now despised agbado has everything to take the world just as Mexican tacos , Italian pizza and Chinese take outs have done.

And whose going to do that ?

Well if you ask your typical lazy yoot today, they will tell you they need FG assistance.

But thankfully , it's not all lost as there are Nigerians in the US who quickly learnt that the US is a place designed for entrepreneurs rather than wage slaves that are opening Nigerian restaurants and showcasing it to the world.

Tourism is incomplete without culinary.

People go to Italy and they order the best of Italian cuisine. Same for France which has the highest concentration of Michelin starred fine dining restaurants.

If we dismiss our own, which we will all end up craving if we get to live in the US and are fed mac and cheese , how can we ever promote our own culture and identity?

What is even wrong in taking Akara to the level of fast food? Must we relegated our own to just street corner dining and then go and dine on hamburgers and pizzas in air-conditioned restaurants ?

I know of several indigenous restaurant chains like Just Amala and Calabar Kitchen that offered good Nigerian food within a good dining environment. In the US Nigerians are setting up Nigerian food restaurants and they are cashing out on it.

In the London area there are Hausa owned Suya restaurants that are selling same Akara and pap alongside massa and they are cashing out and opening new branches across the London area and the UK.

Why then must we look down on our own food and expect it to be relegated to street corner dining ?

And why the backlash when some one is ready to offer grants and solid advise on how to invest such money into investing in Nigerian fast food business ?

Incognito403:
What do you mean by grabbing ancestral land?
Which land did they grab from you?

How is this different from south africa's xenophobia?

Instead of you to face your life and earn a legit living, you're online chasing what isn't lost.

So ancestral lands only exists in the SE of Nigeria and nowhere else that's why you guys all support ESN to root out fulanis.