₦airaland Forum

If na true, then it is better than belonging to the Almajiri or Boko Haram or CPC fundamentalist party who kill innocent NYSC corpers posted to serve in their villages.
Why must this trash make front page in the first instance?

Except GEJ for the first time fully prosecute and deal decisively with these northern rioters, the situation will not change. Never have we seen these murderers jailed; thats why Jos is constantly under attack, now Kaduna and other areas have joined.
GEJ must make sure the perpetrators and their sponsors are punished and publicly too.
The judicial commission of enquiry must be made public and its outcome not thrown under the carpet as is usually the case when it involves Northern rogues. If this is not done, Nigerians will start loosing confidence in GEJ

Do you think Nigeria should continue to recognise Ouattara with all the atrocities his forces commited to get to power. Many of us supported him at a point and wanted Gbagbo out, but when we saw the massacre in front of UN and French forces who were there to 'Protect Civilians' we thought the loss of lives of ordinary Ivorians was not realy worth it and seeing the heavily French bombarding the Presidential palace of another 'Sovereign Country' made many yo start thinking otherwise.
Also, after his capture by French forces it would have been better to hand over Gbagbo to ECOWAS or ICC at the Hague immediately than for him to be handed over to his arch enemy Ouattara.
The situation in Ivory Coast is spreading as feared accross West Africa with the Army mutiny in Burkina Faso where the President Blaise Campaore was the main backer of the Ivorian rebels who have just returned from CIV to forment trouble.
I am surprised that the western media is only reporting about the rebel advancement to Brega or Adjabiya in Libya and no news about Ouagadougou where their ally is the President. I am beginning to seriously distrust CNN, BBC, Aljazeera, france24 which I spend time watching everyday, because I am beginning to think that these media guys are controlling our minds.

Going by what President Goodluck Jonathan said, that the current ongoing electoral process in Nigeria is not worth the blood of any Nigerian citizen. Do you think that Ouattara should have taken the steps he took in getting his 'Mandate' by marching on the bodies and lives of thousands of Ivorians to the Presidency with the help of UN and French Forces?

Thats why a lot of Nigerians are calling on Gen Buhari to call his fanatical followers to other. My colleague in the office is terribly distraught with the news of the killing of his cousin today and burning down of their house in Michika Adamawa State by irate supporters of the CPC.
Will the destruction of lives and properties by his supporters get Buhari to Aso Rock or make INEC to reverse the results?
Your comments pls

Gambia's Government rejection of Alassane Ouattara as president

The events in Ivory Coast have vindicated us on our earlier assertion that Western neo-colonialist sponsored agents in Africa that owe allegiance only to themselves and their Western masters are ready to walk on thousands of dead bodies to the Presidency. This is what is happening in Ivory Coast.

Africans should not only wake up, but should stand up to the new attempts to re-colonise Africa through so called elections that are organized just to fool the people, since the true verdict of the people would not be respected if it does not go in favour of the Western backed candidates, as has happened in Cote D'Ivoire and elsewhere in Africa.

What is really sinister and dangerous about the neo-colonialist threat is that they are ready to use brute force, or carry out outrageous massacres to neutralize any form of resistance to the Western selected President as has happened in Cote D'Ivoire

In Ivory Coast, we know the role played by the former colonial power who, outside of the UN mandate, first bombarded the presidential palace for days, and eventually stormed it through a tunnel that links the presidential palace to one of the residences of their diplomatic representative.

The reasons for the bombardment of the presidential palace prior to the raid was, according to them, to prevent Gbagbo using heavy weapons against civilians! But both the UN and France were aware of the outrageous massacres of civilians. Entire villages that supported President Laurent Gbagbo were wiped out by the so called republican forces fighting for Ouattara. Were Gbagbo supporters not supposed to be protected by both the UN and French forces against massacres?


These so called republican forces that were supposed to be fighting for democracy, ended up killing thousands with impunity and are now engaged in massive looting!

Our position is very clear. The case of Laurent Gbagbo is a replica of the case of Patrice Lumumba who, as a freedom Fighter for the dignity and independence of not only Congolese people but the entire black race, was overthrown by Western powers including the UN, and handed over to his sworn enemies to be murdered.

History is repeating itself as the same neocolonial forces that overthrew Patrice Lumumba, captured him and handed him over to his enemies almost fifty years ago, are the same forces involved in the Ivory Coast with the only difference being that it is now a different former colonial power.

If justice is to be done, there should be an impartial and comprehensive investigation into all the atrocities carried out in Ivory Coast by a team of honest and decent Allah fearing people. Alassane Ouattara and his forces cannot go scot free and blame everything on President Laurent Gbagbo who according to the Ivorian Constitution is the legitimate President of Ivory Coast. This team should be selected by the Non Align Movement.

One is tempted to ask this question:

How is it possible that the verdict of the constitutional council that decided on who won the elections in some Francophone African countries recently, were accepted - that is after the election in Ivory Coast - but that of the Ivorian constitutional council was rejected by both the Western powers and the UN?

As far as we are concerned, the only solution to avert a long drawn-out civil war with all its attendant consequences in Ivory Coast is to reorganize Presidential elections in the shortest possible time. In the meantime, an interim government of national unity should be formed without Alassane Ouattara, as he also has a lot to answer for as well.

One thing is very clear to all Africans today – the plot to recolonise Africa is very real and we must stand up to it.

It is shameful that the most evil, dictatorial and repressive powers on earth today are calling African leaders dictators. It is also very shocking and interesting as well that the same powers are not saying anything about the popular uprising that has been raging on Burkina Faso for the past three weeks, resulting in the storming of the presidential palace in Ouagadougou, last night, with the whereabouts of Blaise Compaore unknown. This uprising has been going on for more than three weeks now, and not a single international news media is reporting on it. Is it possible in today's world that such an uprising can take place in a country like Burkina Faso, so close to the Ivory Coast, a dusk to dawn curfew imposed for two weeks, without the Western media including those of the former colonial master knowing about it?

We the new generation of Africans cannot and will not be fooled. We know what Blaise Compaore stands for in Africa with regards to the West.

Captain Thomas Sankara was murdered for standing up to imperialism and neocolonialism in Burkina Faso in particular and Francophone Africa in general. He was killed for the same reasons that Patrice Lumumba and other African freedom fighters died for, their killers eventually becoming presidents in those African countries and working exclusively for Western interests in Africa.

Blaise Compaore, is one of them. He has a lot to answer for the civil wars that ravaged Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast then, and now.

That there is such a media blackout of the uprising in Burkina Faso, but an up-to-the-minute reporting of events in Yemen, Syria, Ivory Coast etc. shows that the so called international news media are the mouth pieces of certain satanic powers with a sinister mission for the rest of the world outside the West.

Why can't the West respect Africa's independence and dignity?

In conclusion, we call on the UN to ensure the safety, protection, and well being of President Laurent Gbagbo, the constitutionally legal President of Ivory Coast, and set him free. He cannot be tried whilst Alassane Ouattara, the internationally selected President goes scot free after massacring thousands of civilians just to be President!

The Gambia government would not recognize any president or government in Africa that has been imposed by forces outside of the African continent for whatever reason. We know what those governments and presidents stand for in Africa. They loot African resources on behalf of the powers that brought them to power.

May the Almighty Allah guide, guard and protect Africans by giving us the courage to stand up in defence of African independence, dignity and the protection of our natural resources from those hungry locusts on the rampage in Africa. The road to total liberation may be tough, but we shall prevail very soon, Insha Allah.

Banjul, le 16 april 2011

http://news.myjoyonline.com/international/201104/64467.asp

GEJ should focus on education in the north by appointing Southern muslims to head the planned Almajiri Integrated School programme and educate the youths. it must not be allowed to be hijacked by the elites who will scuttle it like UBE and Normadic education where they only award contracts to themselves. The high illiteracy level in the north is a plan by the elite to reduce their people to political pawns.

Meanwhile, a coleague of mine just got a message from Michika Adamawa State that his Cousin has just been murdered and their house burnt down by irate CPC supporters.

Jonathan must ensure that the planned Integrated Almajiri Schools works very well without being scuttled by the Northern elite who have made sure that the people are not educated and enlightened.
The average northern youth is sad and sometimes believe that the problem is as a result of the sins of kafirs 'infidels' .
The crisis in Kano is not targeted at non indigenes or christians but kano elites whom they believe have sold out to GEJs PDP.

There is a lot of rumours everywhere. I dont blame the people because the fear of the illiterate Almajiri is becoming the beginning of wisdom. They can a waste life just at the instruction of a religious leader.
No body is fighting anybody in Abuja, but people are a bit scared of the violent frenzy among the CPC supporters and news from nearby Kaduna.

The FCT Police Commissioner has issued a number in case of any threat. You can alert the FCT Police on 080-615-819-38

I am at Wuse now and there is normal vehicular movement and trading ongoing. Learnt there was a bomb scare and the police are all around. No wahala in Wuse,

Why posting pictures unrelated to this thread. @moninga, seems like you are half re.tarded.
Meanwhile, People are closing their shops at Wuse market abuja and rushing back home to the satelite towns to go and confront supposed trouble makers.
I must tell you, some of these people ran to Abuja because of constant rioting in the North and the bitterness in their heart is making some to start gearing up for a show down with the so called almajiris.

I have always maintained on NL that many Igbos decided to tow the line of Ohaneze to support GEJ because since after the civil war, the confidence level of the SE has never been as high as the ten months of GEJ.
Small gestures like appointing an Igboman as COAS and turning Enugu Airport to an international Airport from whence the leader Dim Ojukwu was flown directly to the UK, though as a sick man; but highly symbolic will sway the votes his way.
Having an Igboman as commandant of NDA for the first time is giving the people of SE a sense of belonging in the entity called Nigeria.
For a long time, the Igbos from Delta and Rivers State will no longer need to deny their identity before getting Govt patronage or admission into FG institutions. For long in Abuja, if you dont speak Hausa language, you may not be atteded to in govt ministries and it gets worse if you say you are an Igbo man.
The Igbos joined minority tribes in Nigeria to say that every Nigerian can aspire to any position on merit. leadership musnt always be reserved for the three major tribes in Nigeria.
NIGERIA! SAI GOODLUCK NIGERIA!

habbi:
Hi, i understand what u are passing through right now. i think the only thing u can do now is to prayer for him (He need deliverance). and i believe u guys will be happy again.
I wish you all the best in life.

NO; I disagree, It is the OP that actually needs deliverance.

@OP just keep your tongue in check and you wont face the kind of situation you are having with him. Never challenge your guy on what he can do. Dont shout at him on no account because he will feel that his ego is been battered and has a tendency to react violently. The average African man values his ego morethan anything and it gets worse when he feels his ego is being bruised by a woman.
Give him his due respect and he will never raise his hands against you.

Never throw insults at him, because if he happens to be the first son in his family he may have grown up seeing his younger siblings never abusing him and he probably views you as a younger sibling also and you know how elder brothers react in the family when a junior insults them.
Everything boils down to your disrespecting your guy, which has brought out an ugly side.

If you can do things the African way by going to him and kneeling before him to say you are sorry if your behaviour infuriated him so much and ask for his forgiveness and telling him you are also ready to forgive him for beating you and that he must promise you he will desist from hitting you next time as you maybe reacting to psychological or emotional mood changes as a woman which could be due to painful period or other issues at the time of the quarrel.
If you follow the above you guys can restart on a better note. GOODLUCK!

The West knows the power of the media and have used it to their advantage. We should make Africans realise that the western controlled media is just there attwmpting to control our minds.
Many Arabs are beginning to avoid TV channels like Aljazeera after their under reporting of Saudi Arabian invation of Barhain to crush anti govt protests while massively reporting that of Libya.
We must re-educate ourselves and ask questions why is that we cant mine our own oil ourselves and sell without Shell or BP or Chevron bringing their own expatriates to do it after 50 years of independence.
Are we truely independent? Many questions,

The picture of a subdued captured Gbagbo reminds many Africans of Patrice Lumumba, Congo's first prime minister, shown here sitting in the back of an army truck the day after his arrest in 1960. He was killed a month later.

Remember Patrice Lumumba? Captured by the colonial power handed over to the opposition, We know the rest of the story. Plus The Congo has never known peace since then.

Patrice Lumumba who helped win Congo’s independence from Belgium in June 1960 was a passionate nationalist who failed to tame this volatile ‘state without a nation’ containing many different ethnic groups. His fiery and controversial independence day speech culminated with Nous ne sommes plus vos macaques! (We are no longer your monkeys!),* but Belgium continued to interfere. It backed a rebellion in the southern province of Katanga, and Lumumba sought Soviet aid to quell the rebellion. Within ten weeks, he was toppled by a military coup backed by the CIA.
He was put under house arrest, while a CIA officer was dispatched with a tube of poison toothpaste. Before his assassin arrived, Lumumba escaped from his house arrest, but rearrested from a plane in Elizabethville. He was beaten and humiliated in front of diplomats and journalists, and was on the truck that would inevitably carry him to his execution when the above picture was taken. It was Lumumba’s last photo. A month later, he was executed — put up against a tree and shot by a firing squad directed, so it seems, by Belgian army officers. His body was buried on the spot, later dug up, and dissolved in acid. The bones were ground up and scattered to the winds to make sure there was nothing left of him. The colonel who deposed Lumumba, Joseph Mobutu (later Mobutu Sese Seko) would rule the country despotically until 1997 and proved to be an utter embarrassment for the West, with his Mao suits, cult of personality and nepotism.

@op you call them Libyan rebels; the west calls them Pro-Democracy fighters.
Who told you its the rebels that are rejecting the AU plan; No its NATO and US.
The plan is coming when the first shipment of oil has begun. 100m barrels was stolen this week worth $112m which will be paid into an account opened for the rebels in Europe.
French ships are already enroute to Ivory Coast to lift cocoa and coffee from the ports.
Who are the rebels and who are the rebel airforce? NATO.
Its like US backing Boko haram and calling them pro-Democracy fighters in Maiduguri,

France handing over Gbagbo to his sworn enemy Ouattara is regretable.
Gbagbo is now being flown by French Helicopter to a 'Safe Place' in the North (rebel headquarters) according to France.
The EU has lifted sanctions and ban on cocoa export. France will now maintain their record as the worlds largest chocolate producer when they have no single cocoa tree which was threatened by Gbagbo presidency.
Unlike Portugal that collected BAIL-OUT fund, they would now ferry the millions of tonnes of cocoa and coffee lying at the Ivorian port to Europe to recover their expenditure in ousting Gbagbo.

Just like Congo today regrets bitterly the assassination of Patrice Lumumba and the Burkinabes mourn the murder of Thomas Sankara by his closest friend Blaise Campaore who unfortunately is the main backer of the Ivorian rebels; the Ivorians will remember the efforts of Gbagbo to pull them out of French stranglehold.

My worry is that these rebels and mercenaries groomed by France will surely use their guns to start another rebellion in any of the neighbouring countries, Ghana, Burkina Faso Liberia, Guinea or any francophone country that tries to challenge the French System.

France handing over Gbagbo to his sworn enemy Ouattara is regretable.
Gbagbo is now being flown by French Helicopter to a 'Safe Place' in the North (rebel headquarters) according to France.
The EU has lifted sanctions and ban on cocoa export. France will now maintain their record as the worlds largest chocolate producer when they have no single cocoa tree which was threatened by Gbagbo presidency.
Unlike Portugal that collected BAIL-OUT fund, they would now ferry the millions of tonnes of cocoa and coffee lying at the Ivorian port to Europe to recover their expenditure in ousting Gbagbo.

Just like Congo today regrets bitterly the assassination of Patrice Lumumba and the Burkinabes mourn the murder of Thomas Sankara by his closest friend Blaise Campaore who unfortunately is the main backer of the Ivorian rebels; the Ivorians will remember the efforts of Gbagbo to pull them out of French stranglehold.

My worry is that these rebels and mercenaries groomed by France will surely use their guns to start another rebellion in any of the neighbouring countries, Ghana, Burkina Faso Liberia, Guinea or any francophone country that tries to challenge the French System.

Sen. James Inhofe ( Oklahoma - Republican) has written to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a fact sheet on Ivory Coast presented to the US Senate.

French say:
Fact Sheet on Côte d’Ivoire(April 6, 2011)“After many delays, including on the part of then-President Laurent Gbagbo, a presidential election was held in Côte d’Ivoire last fall. Since then, its results have been certified by the local monitoring mission and acknowledged by the international community, including the United States, the European Union (EU), the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS), and the African Union (AU).”
Inhofe responds:
In fact the Independent Electoral Commission did not fulfill its constitutional mandate to announce the final provisional vote tallies within three days. It announced them almost 16 hours after it was constitutionally mandated to report them to the Constitutional Council. And it is my understanding, that it is the Constitutional Council of Cote d’Ivoire and not the Electoral Commission which certifies and declares the winner of presidential elections. It seems that this election was not carried out in accordance with the constitution of Cote d’Ivoire. In addition, there is evidence of massive electoral fraud in the rebel held north. I submitted this evidence in two letters to Secretary Clinton and am awaiting a response to these specific allegations. The evidence submitted to Secretary Clinton includes tallies of precincts where, in the first round of voting, President Laurent Gbagbo received multiple thousands of votes, but in the second round he received zero votes. I also submitted an electoral document showing official regional electoral returns, where it shows Ouattara receiving a total 149,598 from one of five northern regions. But when the total is officially reported in the “total vote” column, Ouattara receives 244,471; a difference of 94,873 votes. From all the evidence I now have gathered, I am convinced that it is mathematically impossible for President Gbagbo to have lost the election by several hundred thousand votes. And if a similar amount of fraud exists in the other four regions of the rebel-held north, Gbagbo is actually the winner of the presidential election.
French say:
“Since the results, former President Laurent Gbagbo has not only refused to acknowledge the results, and listen to the will of the people of Côte d’Ivoire, but actually dismissed several initiatives, including by the AU, ECOWAS and other African leaders, to avert any bloodshed and find a peaceful solution of the crisis. Most recently, he again refused to accept proposals by the AU High Level Group, while these proposals have been formally accepted by President Ouattara.”
Inhofe responds:
Not true. As late as March 27, 2011 the African Union sent former Cape Verde foreign minister Jose Brito to mediate between Ouattara and Gbagbo. Gbagbo accepted the mediation, but Ouattara rejected it.
French say:
“This deadlock has precipitated a deterioration of the humanitarian situation. In addition, it has led to growing violence, of which the first victims have been civilians, in spite of the presence on the ground of the U.N. Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI). It is in this context that the United Nations Security Council adopted its Resolution 1975 on March 30. This decision was adopted unanimously, including with a positive vote from the United States and the three African members of the Council (namely, Gabon, Nigeria and South Africa). It stresses the protection of civilians, and the need to prevent the use of heavy weapons in this regard, as a key element of the impartial implementation of UNOCI’s mandate.
Inhofe responds:
There is no evidence that President Gbagbo ordered the shelling or killing of civilians in Abidjan or throughout the country. He has repeatedly denied it, and it is in fact actions by forces under the control of Ouattara who have carried out military and terrorist actions. This consisted of attacks upon police and Army forces by his “invisible commandos” and the outright offensive launched from the north that has led to the present crisis.
In Côte d’Ivoire, French forces are acting on the basis of an international mandate given by U.N. Security Council, in support to the internationally constituted U.N. peacekeeping operation (UNOCI).”
Inhofe responds:
Focus should be on the word “peacekeeping”. Unfortunately, the United Nations and French forces are not engaging in peacekeeping, but war making.
French say:
“Most recently, their intervention has been strictly consistent with Resolution 1975, and responded to a request to President Sarkozy by UN Secretary-General Ban with a view to support UNOCI as it enforces its mandate. In particular, French forces’ intervention in Abidjan has been strictly consistent with this goal, and designed to neutralize the heavy weapons used against civilian populations and UN personnel in Abidjan.”
Inhofe responds:
Not true. Abidjan is a densely populated city of four million people. In this urban environment, the collateral damage caused by the attacks by UN “Peacekeeper” and French attack helicopters and ground troops has caused hundreds if not thousands of civilian casualties.  Specifically, hundreds of youths supportive of President Gbagbo formed a human shield around the presidential palace in an attempt to halt the Ouaratta and French offensive. No one knows how many of these youths have been killed by UN and French forces.
French say:
“In the context of its commitment to the protection of civilians and the fight against impunity in Côte d’Ivoire, as in the rest of Africa and worldwide, France reiterated its calls for an immediate halt to all violence against civilians, and underscored that the perpetrators of these crimes must be held accountable before a court of law. France welcomes President Ouattara’s pledge in this regard.”
Inhofe responds:
The only reported slaughter of civilians has been perpetrated by Ouattara forces currently allied with the UN and French. This occurred in the western town of Duekoue where up to 1000 people were massacred by the Dozos, traditional hunters who fought alongside Ouattara forces. This has been confirmed by the United Nations and Human Rights Watch.
French say:
“France is looking forward to the end of the current violence, and hopes that the constitutional and democratic order will eventually prevail. It is for president Ouattara and the people of Côte d’Ivoire to find the political solutions that will favor a democratic, peaceful, prosperous and reconciled nation.”
Inhofe responds:
Not true. President Gbagbo has called for an immediate cease-fire several times and has been ignored by Ouattara, the UN and French forces. The killings can come to an immediate end if these forces agree to a cease-fire.
Conclusion:
This past Wednesday, April 6, marked the 17th anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. We now know that UN General Secretary Koffi Annan and others knew of the extent of this violence early on, but did nothing about it.We all want to prevent another genocide from occurring.That is why the United States must call for an immediate ceasefire to prevent Ouattara and his rebel army from committing more mass slaughters of the Ivoirians. Lastly, I renew my request to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Kerry requesting that he convene a hearing as soon as possible into the atrocities committed by forces loyal to rebel leader Ouattara, as well as into what I believe were flawed elections that gave legitimacy to his claim of the presidency.

She don dey whin whin whin! She come dey yan yan yan! She come dey gba gba gba! Dora, na so craze dey start, na so craze dey start.

Iam just miming MI the microphone magician!

Yes! when GEJ agreed to present a UN draft mandate on Ivory Coast prepared by France and made to appear as if it was prepared by Nigeria.

The bombardment of a Sovereign countries presidential palaces in Libya and Ivory Coast by France in the name of 'Protecting Civilians'. Same civilians who were massacred in front of them in Duokoue Ivory Coast last week to the genocide in Rwanda.

The lead Africans to hate themselves and start civil wars which they supply arms to all the parties to reduce their population and exploit resources which are sent to Europe like in Congo.

I watched appalingly a ship moving stolen Libyan Oil loaded by the so-called 'Pro-Democracy' fighters yesterday.

They control the world media and make us to believe biased stories on CNN, Aljazeera, AP, Reuters etc.
They declare and certify results of elections in Africa and if not won by their intended puppet they impose crippling sanctions to destroy their economies such as in Zimbabwe and even start wars like in CIV.
They make sure we dont learn how to tap our resources ourselves and sell, any attempt to nationalise these sectors will lead to sponsoring of coups and they govt termed terrorist supporters like in Libya where Libyan Engrs mine their oil themselves as a policy, while we are still strugling to implement the local content bill,
If you dont borrow from IMF and World bank to execute important projects, they preach to you that if you dont stop, the project will lead to negative economic indices in the next five years bla bla bla.

They still wonder how Ghadafi was able to build the biggest man-made river supplying adequate water to a desert nation without borrowing a dime and they are using NATO to destroy Libyan oil fields in the name of protecting civilians so that when the guns become silent they would sign huge repair of facilities contracts.
The colonialists are coming back to start from where there forefathers stopped coupled with the economic crisis in Europe where former rich colonialists like Portugal and Ireland are collecting BAIL-OUTS funds to rescue their economies.
They last hope is to go back to Africa and sell Democracy, in the past it was to evangelise Christianity, while exploiting the resources now it is 'Democracy'

Eziachi:
My freind/brother, the wish of every caring father is to make sure that his children do not have to pass through the fire like him in order to have a bite to eat. Not to soften their part to life but to prepare them in a way that they will have the chance and opportunity like every other kid.

We suffered all kind of indignation, humiliation, harwork so that your generation will stand shoulder to shoulder without blinking first against anyone. So if your uncle sound like me, it might be a good idea to listen to him.

I am a father/grandfather, I remembered the first time my daughter came home with the boy that wants to marry her. As a father, I do not bring out my best vintage wine  to serve the nervous prospective inlaw or even have anytime for him. In fact I ignored him, told him to make an appointment if he wants to see me, that I am going out and my wife/daughter afterward regards me worse than Saddam Hussaine.

But what I was doing as a father is making sure through words and body language to the boy that my daughter is not cheap, she is a well refined gold in my eyes as a father and if he loved and wants her as a wife, he will need to work very hard and convince me/family that he means business for the long term, not just for something he will fancy today because he is the most beautiful girl around and discard tomorrow or he has come seeing our family as a meal ticket.
I want to know that he is the kind of guy, when after 2-3 times of breadfeeding, that my daughter will still make his heart jump.

I am happy to report that I got what I wanted because after 10 years of marriage, they are still together, loved up, with 2 great kids and she still has a wonderful carreer as a  newscaster with the Aljazeera network. Because I set the ground rules for my son inlaw on what I considered my daughter to be worth and how she should be treated.

But at the time my daughter based on her little experience of life cannot see what I foresaw and my wife too was carried away with the notion of romantic spirits swamming around or may be busy dreaming about the hat she will be wearing at the wedding and forgets the most important thing- our daughter's future .

Why am I saying this?  It is the fact that APGA/Peter Obi/Ohaneze are like an irresponsible father who gave their beautiful daughter (NDIGBO) away to a boy (Jonathan) they hadly knew at the first asking. They didn't make him sweat even if they liked him, should they have placed all their card on the table?

They should have told him that there are other suitors hanging around the corner waiting for their chances, therefore show me something in concrete that if I gave you what you wanted that my daughter will not come back to me in a couple of months  time asking why I didn't stop her?
Some fathers may give their daughters away at the first asking and the marriage may ended up working out in the end, but that is called taking a chance, and my daughter or Igboland is too precious for her future to be based or placed on a chance. I want to make sure I did my very best, even if it failed to work in the end, because no one can accurately foretell the future, I will beat my chest and say that I did my best under the circumstances.
Look at the Yorubas, they have sat down with beer in one hand and cigar on the other, watching as everybody sweat for their votes. They still hold the ace because politicians are desperate now and when people are desperate, they tend to give, not promised, more than they would have intended.
Whether it works out as they thought in future or not is never the issue, because they have done what they are supposed to have done in a crooked political terrain as in Nigeria and to top it up, ACN is even poised/positioned to take back Ogun/Oyo and other elective positions taken away from them by fraud in 2003/2007.

If Peter Obi/APGA/Ohaneze has some brain in them,without selling our people cheap to an Ijaw man Jonathan, nothing stops APGA taking over everything in Anambra, Abia, Ebonyi, Imo and then give PDP a good fight in Enugu, Rivers and Delta.
I hope I am wrong about the future, but if I continue to sound like your uncle, it shows that we cared and we will hate to to see you going back to square one. Thank you

The humiliation suffered in the hands of Northerners led Ndigbo to the present situation where we we gave GEJ a chance without serious sweat.
I believe that we are entering a recovery phase under GEJ. We need to get back our lost confidence before going into the ring; GEJ provides that opportunity in the next four years.
A buhari presidency will lead to the previous situation where many of us have to deny our identity as Igbos to get contracts from Govt, gain admission to institutions owned by FG

That bag contains perhaps gifts to hard working journalists who may have followed the President around during his campaign tours, just like they are doing to BB and Ribadu.
Afterall, we get indoctrinated by news from CNN and Aljazeera telling us about how Ghadaffi is killing civilians and NATO bombing his presidential palace to 'protect civilians', with no mention of Saudi Arabia killing civilians and invading Barhain.

Nigerian journalists are better than foreign media that you believe their biased stories; they are known to report facts or they will rather keep quiet than shamelessly report bias stories like CNN or Alj.

Did you see GEJ at the venue? NO
That man wearing caftan in the picture and holding a bag looks very much like a CPC thug.

PDP will loose may seats at the assemblies and guber, but GEJ will win the presidential elections outrightly!!

i wonder how 9ice face wud have looked when he 'caught' her giving fluting abi na trumpeting to his close friend?

[quote author=baby.me link=topic=639974.msg8063569#msg8063569 date=1302086591]Is she dead? [/quote]She was among those who died in a stampede struggling to get a bag of rice at the International Conference Abuja offered by Dame Emblera during last Xmas. Another woman had her baby stradled on her back suffocated to death while she was trying to catch a bag of rice being thrown from a truck. It was a sad day for Abuja residents and showed the level of poverty and deprivation in the country.

@Gamesb, Pls stop derailing other peoples posts, U can start your own and post ugly pictures. We are celebrating the wedding of a great couple here and not mourning the deaths of rice victims.

What about CPC using thousands of under age voters in Katsina State to rig out PDP at last weeks election? Voting had started before the announcement of cancelation by Jega and it was clear that the child voters comprising of Almajiris were voting enmasse for CPC. The police refused to stop them to avoid confrontation and the corpers stated that it was not their responsibility to fish out under age voters (good thinking)

Buhari should also speak out against this CPC rigging strategy and most of them were carrying voters cards with other peoples pictures.

What about CPC using thousands of under age voters in Katsina State to rig out PDP?

Who gave France the mandate to bomb a sovereign countries seat of govt and occupy the airport. Tha massacre of Christians in Duokoue by Ouattaras Muslim forces has become a source of embarassment to the international community with even the US Govt and UN denouncing publicly. Americans citizens are wondering why several UN staff were beaten to death and beheaded and in Afghanistan last week over the burning of the Koran by an obscure pastor and the western media is trying frantically to cover up the massacre by Ouattara Muslim forces last week.
Just like in Rwanda, where the Belgian UN peacekeeepers abandoned the victims to their fate, the UN forces were within the vicinity when the massacre was taking place and never intervened. The next thing they will do is to organise a summit where everyone will say Never Again will this kind of genocide happen.

The colonialists are back because of the fear that the BRIC countries will take hold of resources in Africa without passing through them.
Look at the shame in Libya, we watch an undisciplined group of rebels running back and forth shouting Allahu Akbar and flashing victory signs with NATO becoming their airforce; they are planning to start selling oil by next week. Only France and Italy have recognised them as the legitimate Govt and ready to export Libyan oil and hand over Libya external account to the rebels.
The problem of Libya as we have now realised is not only oil but water. The West are angry that Ghadaffi executed the largest man made river  in the world at a cost of $25b without borrowing a cent from IMF and awarding the contract to Koreans and Asian companies.

Even if Gbagbo goes, Ouattara is a divicive factor in CIV and the battle will continue; remember that the rebel leader and Ouattara PM Guillame Soro is also a very ambitious guy.

At the NN24 debate Buhari inundated us with how he hopes to solve the Niger Delta issue when he has not condenmed the killings in his backyard in Jos, Bauchi and Maiduguri.
Most of the rioters are his (CPC) peasant supporters going by the religious fervour that follows his campaign with shouts of Allahu akbar, sai maigaskiya.
The fact is that Northern minority tribes will not vote for Buhari because of the fear of another round of Hausa and Fulani domination. Buhari just like IBB will create another Jos West Local govt or even Markudi East; propagate Almajirism among the Hausa tribe to keep serving the Fulani elite.

Because I can walk into any ministry in Abuja without having to speak Hausa to get any favours i want.
For several years Igbos from Delta and Rivers State have denied our identity as Igbos; rather we identify our tribe as Asaba, Anioma, Echie, Ibuzor etc.
But since GEJ came in we are beginning to find our voices which was silenced by the Asaba massacre of our brightest young men ;and the women abducted as war booty by marauding Northern soldiers led by Gen Murtala during the civil war.

GEJ all the way! I apologise for the sentiment attached in choosing him.

Let every state govt focus on an item it has comparative advantage and request the FG to buy them. GEJ should request that toothpicks must come from Sapele and ban Chinese toothpicks in Nigeria.
Good thinking GEJ, seems like he read our opinions on NL concerning the award of contracts for the purchase of busses to a Chinese firm by NLC when we have INNOSON, TATA, ANNAMCO etc assembling same vehicles in Nigeria.

Is it the rebels that are advancing or the French Legonne (Soldiers). Dont be deceived, look at the No Fly Zone over Libya and what it has turned. With Western nations shamelessly trying to interpret a simple UN resolution to protect civilians into arming the rebels and forming a puppet Govt in London called Interim National Council (INC) and discussing a post Ghadafi era.
Imagine the French guys coming up with a draft resolution that suits them and making it look as if it is Nigeria proposing it which India, China, Brazil and Russia have resisted.

Please read the article below:

Queen Hillary of Libya By Pepe Escobar

The current stalemate in Libya could last weeks, if not months. In that case, balkanization looms. Think of eastern Libya with Benghazi as capital, oil-rich and with a United States-installed puppet regime (a Libyan Hamid Karzai, like the Afghan president). It would be like a kind of northern Africa Saudi Arabia (the House of Saud would love it).

And think of a western Libya with Tripoli as capital, impoverished, angry and ruled by Muammar Gaddafi and sons. If that applies, we're back to the 1950s; Libya as the new Korea. Or, more

 
ominously, back to the 1960s; Libya as the new Vietnam.

Vietnam? No wonder a paranoid Anglo-American-French consortium will pull all stops to take out Gaddafi. They don't want half a spring roll; they want the whole kebab.

The queen's speech
The new Libyan government kingmaker is actually a queen: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Any doubts that the US State Department is now frantically setting up a new government peppered with English-speaking collaborators have been dismissed after the London conference on Libya.

The "official" Libyan opposition used to tautologically call itself "Interim Transitional National Council". Now it's Interim National Council (INC). Anyone running for cover to the sound of the acronym INC is excused; it does bring appalling memories of the Washington-propped Iraqi National Congress and its fabled "weapons of mass destruction" in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

And what about the INC's new military commander, Khalifa Hifter - a former Libyan army colonel who spent nearly 20 years in Vienna, Virginia, not far from the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley? Progressives will love to learn that the romantic "rebels" are now led by a CIA asset.

At the London conference, the INC launched in style its slick political manifesto - "A vision of democratic Libya" - which makes all the right noises; freedom of expression, presidential and parliamentary elections, and crucially, the promise of "a state that draws strength from our strong religious beliefs in peace, truth, justice and equality".

This is - extremely polite - code for Islam in post-Gaddafi Libya (so not to ruff Western feathers). Along with the impeccable English redaction, the whole thing screams, "slick Western PR stunt". The council swears the platform was originally drawn up in Arabic. It definitely doesn't feel like a Google Translate job.

So the INC says the gift to the West for the Tomahawks, Tornados and Rafales is going to be a secular democracy. Someone else might say a coalition of opportunists and military defectors climbed upon the wave of mass radicalization in northern Africa, profited from the absence of political leadership among the working class and middle class, and struck a military alliance with Western imperialism. Which is more plausible?

The INC now is being paraded for the whole world to see as a Western puppet - totally dependent on political and military support. Welcome to Libya as a Pentagon-style forward operating base (FOB) - to the benefit of the Pentagon itself (via Africom), Western oil majors, and all manner of shady Anglo-French-American business interests (see There's no business as war business Asia Times Online March 30 ). Welcome to a new Libya hosting a US military base and NATO exercises, and not spending oil money in sub-Saharan African development projects.

As major players - the BRIC countries and Germany – had already warned, United Nations Security Council resolution 1973 is being twisted like a pretzel. Queen Hillary now openly says that arming the "rebels" is legal. Another one of the queen's women combat squad, US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, said the US had "not ruled out" arming the rebels - mimicking the exact wording of President Barack Obama. Impressed, British Foreign Secretary William Hague agreed. So did Qatar.

Meanwhile, NATO is taking over. Literally. Starting this Thursday, NATO's air strikes will be conducted out of the Combined Air Operations Center at Poggio Renatico base in Italy, 40 kilometers north of Bologna. But that's just the start.

Admiral James Stavridis, NATO's supreme allied commander for Europe, told a US senate hearing in Washington NATO was not considering ground forces in post-Gaddafi Libya - at least not yet. But as NATO had installed peacekeepers in the Balkans, added Stavridis, "the possibility of a stabilization regime exists".

There you have it - the whole package; a Western puppet regime, Western boots on the ground, a squalid Western protectorate. Goodbye to Libya's sovereignty. And this only a few hours after Obama passionately told the world this was just a humanitarian mission.

It requires major suspension of disbelief that an Obama administration that keeps unleashing drones and air strikes over civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and - now and then - Somalia is now deeply concerned with protecting Libyan civilians. "Democratic" Israel may bomb 1,500 Lebanese civilians in 2006 or kill nearly 1,500 civilians in the winter of 2008/2009 in Gaza - and no way there will be a UN resolution, or Tomahawks flying, or righteous humanitarian imperialists invoking R2P (“responsibility to protect”) en masse.

In 1999, NATO almost destroyed Belgrade to "protect civilians" in Kosovo. Kosovo subsequently became an infinitely corrupt protectorate ruled by a drug mafia. Cue to echoes of neo-cons arguing that the real reason for Washington to invade Iraq was to "protect" Iraqis from the evil dictator Saddam by bringing democracy (by shock and awe).

The stark fact is that Washington - now with Anglo-French help - is bombing yet another Muslim/Arab capital. Miraculously - if one believes the Pentagon - with zero "collateral damage".

And what about the Ivory Coast?
A true genocide is about to happen in the Ivory Coast. There are already one million internal refugees. The "international community" - which now seems to consist of the US, Britain, France, a few NATO countries and a few Arab autocracies, with Qatar as the superstar - has not emitted a peep.

Laurent Gbagbo 'lost' a presidential election in the Ivory Coast but has refused to concede. But the fact remains that he is constitutionally sworn in as president by the country,s Supreme Court whose verdict must be respected by the 'International Community' He and his rival Alassane Ouattara controls a huge militia armed to their teeth - and they're going all guns blazing to snatch elected opposition figures, intellectuals and civil society leaders. Anyone who has supported the 'winner' of the election at the cost of Ivorian lives, Alassane Ouattara, is fair game.

Shades of Gaddafi, anyone? Better yet; shades of Rwanda in 1994, Uganda in 2008 and Congo during the 1990s. Not a few thousand dead civilians but hundreds of thousands of dead civilians (and in the case of Congo, perhaps as many as four million). Not a R2P (responsibility to protect) squeak from the "international community".

If the Anglo-French-American consortium really wanted to stop the violence in Libya the sensible solution would have been to dispatch an UN fact-finding commission to really analyze the facts on the ground. No one really knows how many civilians Gaddafi forces killed, or how many air strikes his regime conducted. No one really knows how many black Africans have been raped or murdered by the “rebels”, who assumed they were Gaddafi mercenaries.

Gaddafi himself agreed to an independent UN commission. The first measure of R2P is not to exercise the Tomahawk option; it is to mediate, call for a ceasefire and start negotiations.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is correct when he says this "humanitarian" war is fast becoming a "second Iraq" or "another Afghanistan". He also said Turkey is talking to both Gaddafi and the INC. Sensibly - and as part of NATO - Turkey is about to take over the harbor and the airport in Benghazi to speed up humanitarian aid. If there is a ceasefire the credit must go to Turkey - which is working hard to establish a humanitarian corridor, with support from Italy. Neo-Napoleonic Arab liberator French President Nicolas Sarkozy won't be amused.

Turkey is also linking up with the African Union (AU) - which has been totally marginalized by the Anglo-French-American consortium. France and Britain may be paranoid about the upcoming immigration waves from Africa, now that Libya - which was the cop on the beat for the Europeans - is not playing that role anymore. Italy - already coping with waves and waves of new arrivals at the isle of Lampedusa - at least is trying to work in the humanitarian front alongside Turkey.

There's no guarantee Turkey's mediation efforts will work. The Pentagon/Africom/NATO foreign intervention in Libya - "legitimized" by a dodgy UN cover - is shaping up as a counter-revolutionary master coup. Make no mistake as to what is the ultimate target; to squash the great 2011 Arab revolt momentum, to show who's boss, and to present neo-colonialism with a facelift. To see how it develops, one just has to focus on Queen Hillary's speech.