₦airaland Forum

All men were created equal and we should not make feel better than others. There are millions of Nigerians who registered since two and a half years ago but they don't even have the information on where to know and collect their card. Why not use the time you take the I.D them and use that to reach out to the ordinary people that needs this card. What is the #change in what you are doing. Let everybody stand on the queue

I KNOW WE DONT LIKE READING LONG STORIES BUT DONT IGNORE THIS
Shared by Patrick Oyinkari (Pastor)

The following piece was share by one of my secondary school class mates on our fun page. I'm bringing it here because I go with the opinions raised. I believe we can all together do something about the writeup after reading it through. While God is ready to help us, we must show that we want to be helped for He does not work in vain.

Our Plunging Naira -

Before you blame Emefiele, take a look at yourself...

It is either I do not understand economics and how exchange rates work or a vast majority of us Nigerians still don’t get how we have wrecked our country with our own curious choices. Just this morning I was listening to the radio and the lady on air went on and on about how she thought CBN governor Godwin Emefiele was incompetent and should be sacked because the naira was now exchanging at 309 or so to the USD. That view pretty much echoes the sentiments expressed by many people I know and it amazes me that there are Nigerians who actually think there is some magic POLICY that can make the naira strong in the near term. If my economics and my understanding of the way the world works are right, then that is as far from the truth as Jesus Christ is black.

The simple fact of the matter is that apart from oil that accounts for over 90% of our revenues, we really don’t have much of an economy. We hardly produce anything, we import even toothpicks, so exactly what policy is going to be implemented that will turn Nigeria into a top exporting economy in the near term? Where are our Apples, IBMs, Disneys, GMs, General Electrics, Coca Colas, Empire State buildings, Statues of Liberties, Lockheeds, Citibanks, JP Morgans, ExxonMobils, NBAs, Super Bowls etc?

Let me bring that closer home. There was a time long ago when Nigeria had a truly strong economy and the naira was one to the dollar - even exchanged for higher than the USD, but that Nigeria is not this Nigeria. Sadly that Nigeria was laid by the British, and this Nigeria (if you don’t believe in the nonsensical imperialist conspiracies like me) - fueled by the DAMAGING Indigenisation Decree, has been the creation of us Nigerians.Back then we had a booming economy.

We were either the top, or among the top exporters, of timbre, cocoa, groundnuts, rubber, palm oil, etc, in the world. Nigerians not only holidayed at home in their villages, at Yankari Games Reserve, at Obudu Cattle Ranch, at Oguta Lake, at Ikogosi springs, at Gurara Falls, at Mambilla Platueau, etc, we attracted international tourists who brought in loads of foreign exchange. Even Nigerian schools were foreign exchange earners because they attracted foreign students. We had different car assembly plants - Peugeot, Volkswagen, Anamco etc. Nigerian government officials only bought vehicles assembled in Nigeria for official cars. We had a thriving sports industry. We were not Man United or Chelsea fans, we were Rangers or IICC fans. We had the Nduka Odizors, people made money from sports. We also had companies like Lennards and Bata producing school shoes in their thousands, we had the thriving Nigerian Airways and the Aviation School in the north that produced some of the best pilots in the world.

In those days if you were brilliant you were respected much more than the crass money-miss-road contractors of today. Most of the Aje Butters I knew had fathers who were university dons. Back then it meant something to ‘know book’. Our textile industry was alive and well. Just recently I watched a news report on the textile industry in Nigeria on CCTV News. Though the main focus was on the comatose status of the industry, I was stunned by the gigantic Kaduna Textile Mill built in 1957. I could go on and on.

Today however, no thanks to our parents (and we must call them out the way Wole Soyinka did his generation) and many of us (and we should be remembered for failing our children if we continue like this), we have destroyed everything. Today for instance Nigerian football (which comes easy to me obviously) doesn’t appeal to us, we have to fly across thousands of miles to watch ‘our’ clubs play. Every year we collectively burn billions of naira being fans of clubs that give us nothing back, but some ‘entertainment value’ - simple pleasures for which we are ready to destroy the future of our children. Well people, payback time is here. Even with our ta-she-re money we all want to wear designer clothes and carry designer bags, Armani, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton etc. We all want to drive jeeps with American specs, our children must now school overseas and acquire the necessary accents to come back home and bamboozle their ‘bush and crass’ contemporaries that they left behind. Who holidays in Nigeria anymore, is there Disneyland here? No one buys made-in-Nigeria school bags for their children, after all no Superman or Incredible Hulk or Cinderella on them. We are no longer top exporters of anything and the demise of oil means we have zilch... zero. A country of 170m fashion-conscious people has no textile industry. We take delight in showing how our made-in-Switzerland Aso Ebi is different class to everyone else’s. When we help our musicians grow and pay them millions, they repay us by immediately shipping the monies overseas to produce their “i-don-dey-different-level”music videos. It makes no difference that distinctly Zulu dancers are dancing to a Nigerian highlife song. As stars concerned they also wed and holiday overseas to impress us all. All the musicians who acknowledge their Ajegunle roots now speak in a cocktail of strange accents to symbolise how much they have blown their monies overseas.

Were we a more serious people, the highly popular Kingsway Stores of the past would probably have a thousand outlets pan Nigeria today supporting a massive agriculture industry among others, but today we have the likes of SPAR, Shoprite, dominating the retail industry while Kingsway is dead. And we Nigerians make it a special point to shop from the Oyibos who have ‘cleaner shops’, ‘better this and better that’. For our personal pleasure we don’t mind them dominating us in our own backyard and shipping proceeds overseas.

I could go on and on, but I don tire. Even as you are reading this, stop for a moment and look around you. What you see will probably explain why we are lucky it is not N1000 to the USD yet. And don’t think for a moment that it cannot get there. Just continue to wear your Armani gear and Swiss-made lace, continue to spend your money on Man United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Barca and encourage your children to do same. (My article in This Day tomorrow is on the Nigerian champions Enyimba FC - Nigeria’s most successful club - not having a sponsor, yet Nigerian brands pay over N600m to Man United and Arsenal for sponsorship to impress us.) Ehhh, no problem, continue to tell me the NPFL is rubbish or the clubs should clean up their act if they want sponsorship, mo gbo. Don’t curtail your interest in choice wines ( we were the number one champagne consumers in the world in 2015), continue to love your American specs, cheer the education ministry for letting schools sink to pitiable levels, don’t fight them to improve our schools, don’t chide them for letting schools drop Nigerian history and embrace British, America and whatever else curricula. Carry on with your love of French wines and Chinese silk, don’t bother about Jamiu Alli when there is Roger Federer. Stock up on your Italian, American, British products which you cannot live without, including the ‘baby soft’ toilet rolls produced only in that small unique village in England - the days are long gone since you were a broke student who used wet newspapers to wipe your butt. Don’t even consider holidaying in Nigeria, it’s too dangerous - you have to fulfill your dream of being Nigeria’s Henry Ford. Don’t listen to people like me who have a wardrobe full of only cheap adire that is actually cheaper than just one of your Tom Ford blazers. Please keep dressing in fine silk made in some exotic place so you can be addressed accordingly. Finally keep letting corrupt leaders who have looted your commonwealth and shipped all the monies overseas get away because to attack them does not fit your political narrative. Let us continue with the fine life, let us all continue to work for Oyibo.

But don’t forget that there is payback time and Emefiele is not your problem. Time for us all to look in the mirror and take responsibility.

...as written by KENNETH EZAGA

[quote author=makzeze post=41982560]I score him 15/10

Sai Baba![/quote
15/10 means 1.5

For stealing and altering the official document of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, this men should be thrown into prison, that is how the will change the constitution and distribute fate ones
Afterall, Saraki started it with the Senate Standing rule, so why can't I do it with the budget or Constitution - PMB
APC is a scam and they are good at stealing, afterall GEJ said stealing is not corruption. We are fighting corruption but not stealing. One is free to steal - Senator Enang.

This have been happening since in several states like Cross River State who are exploring their limestone and other mineral resources. So that is not new. We should look into the issue of oil exploration, where communities that owes oil should be given the right over their resources that is what we should be talking about.

Senator without a good agenda. You were right when you said APC is an Islamic party, that is true as they rarely can't do with the hausa language in their functions even national

flokii:
see his fat ugly head sef..

Nna ur father head ugly no be my former governor and my Senator head u dey refer to. Don't let me see u, u want die? Stop that my friend. Mttchew. Thief like you

Jabioro:
The elder has spoken ..and the yourth should be watchful..

Look at his old face, he is still hungry for power. Instead of a southwesterner being the President, let the North colonize the Country forever. Mumu people

Tinubu I'm telling you that if the South West are faning theirselves that by 2019 that power is coming to them then the party with such plans have started failing because instead of the South South and South East supporting the South West, we will rather vote a Northerner to be there. Una neva chi chum chin

Since the federal government have decided not to obey court orders, join us in this campaign #scrapjudiciary to help make them obey the judiciary and to strengthen that arm. Join us on twitter @scrapjudiciary1

Since the Buhari government has refuse to obey court orders join the campaign #scrapjudiciary on twitter@scrapjudiciary1

Will Buhari obey this court order. There should be no court in this milicivi regime. Infact courts should be scrap out.

This democracy looted started since 1999 by the do or die kaki man Obasanjo but since he is backing Buhari, he and his cohort are now saint. What about the power sector reforms money that OBJ ate, what about the sales of govt firms, what about the third term money splash to Senators, is Buhari and his EFCC ignorant of that or were they not born then?

You asked this question because there is no portion in the bible that authorize Sunday as a day of rest and worship. The bible instructed the Sabbath and not Sunday. So worship God on the Sabbath(Saturday) and don't forbid the assembly of the saint as bible instruct.

I say to you no matter the level of intimidation and money politics, the people of Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa Ibom can't stand to see APC win their states for now afterall the so call APC will not reach 2017. Stand up and clear road for PDP- the party for the people.

In Uyo the Akwa Ibom state capital on friday 8th january APC supporters also carried coffin with the inscription all over the coffin PDP IS DEATH. That was when the received Umana from the stadium for a rally. Nigeria I wonder what we are changing into.

APC is a premature party that wants to take it by force, so expect more than this in all their elections as their zeal to take all states is still high. God help us overcome this kind of change.

Then show me the difference between APC and PDP when this kind of thing happen. What are we changing into. God help..m

Thanks for this write up. We were charge to teach others and guide others into all truth. We have to condemn what is evil so that many will not fall prey to it.
The Roman Catholic church have caused a lot of damage to christainity.
1. The changing of God's law(sabbath from Saturday 7th day to Sunday 1st day)
2. Bowing down to graven images( earthly or heavenly)
3. Changing of God's calendar etc
I thank God that daily his truth are being revealed to his people.

I pray that no one deceive you like the Serpent did since in the garden of Eden. After which the Lord got angry with man and since then few have always been saved. 1. Few were saved in the days of Noah. 2. Few followed God and believe the prophet in the days of Moses and the other prophet.
3. In the babylonian empire, it was only the three Hebrew boys that never bow to the sunday image you are bowing down today.
4. Jesus Christ kept the law and the Sabbath in his days on earth
5. Paul and the other Apostles brought the gospel from the Jews to the Gentiles.
6. Paul kept the Sabbath and in the book of Romans 8 stress that those who claims ignorant of the law will perished and those that keep the law will be judged according to the law.
7. I can see the Serpent of Eden in this write-up but I speak to any one reading this today that you should not be the next eve. Tap into the grace of God and embrace his Sabbath on the seventh day of the week.

I believe the writer of this story is like the Serpent in Eden. You will deceive multitude but the elect of the Lord can't be deceive. From encyclopedia britainca, history have it that the Sabbath was only changed by emperor Constantine of the Roman empire in 340AD. The same Roman empire who crucify christ in the days of Caesar, that is the same people who changed the sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. In the dark ages, our fore fathers were not given access to the holy book(the bible) by the same group of people. May God have mercy on your write up.

What can this pagans not do. They first rejecting Jesus and crucify him, later destroy the temple in Jerusalem which was led by General Titus AD 70, now they are struggling to make Rome and the Vatican a spiritual headquarter trying to divert pilgrims to Rome and are now building the status of Jesus which they have not seen and can't even obey, while the poor massive are suffering without clothing, shelter, food, employment etc. Papals' Rome is a wicked kingdom. Lord, thy kingdom come and thy will be done on earth.

What will those stupid Buhari followers say now. Expect this headline - APPEAL COURT JUDGES ARRESTED FOR JUDGEMENT ON TARABA ELECTION. Una neva chi chum chin

I knew one day Nigerians will regret voting for Buhari, thank God I was a corps member and I never voted for anybody but only conducted the election. Once a General is always a General. The only way we can go out of this mess is for him to allow Osibanjo run the government but Osibanjo was not really prepared for this job. Wahala...

After stealing from Rivers state, he is now thinking "are all this stories about anticorruption PMB is saying is it true? What if I steal as a minister wouldn't he protect me again.". "Sha I will try a new stealing pattern because those foolish PDP are really watching me"

APC supporters in Akwa Ibom State are just the hungry man on the street who do not have direction, they gather around Ibom plaza and are very few. Even if election is conducted 100 times, I tell you Akwa Ibom is for PDP. I live in Uyo and am from Akwa Ibom and I can tell you even Umana Umana have no ground here.

As far as I know, studies have shown that APC is not just a northern Nigeria party but purely for the Hausas. It is better the southerners adopt either the PDP now or any other party. I see Wike and Udom continuing as Governor of their various states no matter what.

Just because of something or somebody, Wike God will remember you. Your appeal is to God and not the the Judicial arm which is influence by the powers on earth

What did you expect from a nominee appointed by a one chance man. Even his Oga have problems in his cerebrium. I pity my country Nigeria and I blame PDP.

REASONS WHY THIS STORY IS FAKE. 1. If true,APC would have want it to be publicise widely to show that it's government is really fighting corruption and that they spare nobody. 2. Security agents would have not just return the money speedly to the man, as investigation is still going on.

I think it depends on whether u are under State of Federal. But the SSCE are paid 35000 by the Federal