₦airaland Forum

J12: Obasanjo is one of the worst political leaders we've ever had in this part of the world. He had the opportunity to drastically change Nigeria for good but he messed up seriously! Yes of course there were some positive change his government effected on the country as a whole, but they cannot be compared to the shit he put us through. He is a demon

What has ur papa done to change naija for better. U re talking about another person papa wat about ur own. Mumu. It is easy to point one finger but thr remaing four re pointing to u underneath.

Yomieluv: Am proud of the old man called Obasanjo,cos nobody in Nigeria can beat his criminal antecedents,from Operation Feed the Nation(OFN) to Obasanjo Farm Nigeria(OFN). And the 16billion he claimed he spent on turn around maintenance of our refineries.he's really someone to be proud of.

You are one of the people that is making wat was termed as a curse in yoruba land to have its hold. Why do u av to linger on the past. Many individual in this country Nigeria hav done worst more than obj but u will never see his people castigating them. I pity ur race

afam4eva: Obasanjo is the most hated Yoruba man by Yorubas and Aregbesola is speaking for himself. I hope he doesn't get some lashing from his party for going against one of the core belief of the party.

If u re a yoruba man u re a big fool and if u re not u re dabbling into what is not of ur concern. Akpeteshi

gratiaeo: The truth remains that federal govt have not done enough to address the issue of civil war, something must be corrected imagine a tribe that has millions/billions in their bank account before the civil war was compensated with 20pounds each what an insult, and you want them to forget so easily
Come to the issue of owning lagos.... We bought all the land we build on in lagos with C of O... or do U̶̲̥̅̊ want to eat your cake and have it? We are not ignorant just that the nature has made us to develop and buil wherever we reside.... Take Israel for instance they left Egypt after building and helping Egypt to become what they are today, but compare the two nation today

Were u not given c of o when u were pursued from the north. I will categorically state here that I hate people who blames others for their misdemeanour. That is exactly what ibo pple re doing. Ojukwu left the mid west and proceeded to the west through Ore and wanted to capture the west and you want a person full of wisdom to keep quiet. Go and ask your fathers Ore happened to be where we had the most severe battle that is why we av the saying o le ku ija Ore till today.

9ja voice: One may wonder why most igbos don't respond to yoruba critics of achebe war memoir.
its just because igbos are matured men that behaves as men they are.

why are the north not responding to Great Achebes book, only very few of them responds and keep quiet.

again one may wonder why almost all yorubas both home and abroad keep has responded to Achebes book,
its just because yorubas are men that behaves like women though it is genetic in them to talk loud with little to no action.
anyway if men fought women will tell the tales.

just whine Yoruba a little and they will talk till thy kingdom come.

i must state clear here that yorubas are making enemies to themself. even here online very few northerners discuss nigeria civil war talk more of mocking the igbos as yorubas does on daily bases.

Bros talk negatively about Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello if fatwa will not be placed on you. Achebe talk about a great Yoruba leader and you want yoruba to keep quiet. They fit talk about your papa and you keep quiet when you no be bastard. Oh boy clear for road

goryorhal: Hmmm dose guys no calculate am well....dem for kidnap d woman go far place wey network no go reach @ all...

Look at how shallow your reasoning is, I wonder how far you can go in life with this display of hatred and sheer ignorance. I pity your generation

oraclefemi: Nigerians and especially yorubas will never appreciate this man until he his gone, you complained about him so much , now you have Jonathan your breathe of fresh air with no balls

Gbam. A cow does not know the value of its tail until when it loses it.

klax: What a HELL is this man talking about 20year is even too short I guess 50-100 year is the right figure.

I think the North belief they are hurting somebody else not knowing they are hurting themselves badly its a sorry case. A foolish MAN will die in his foolishness thinking he is hurting anybody. The North never know anything yet this is how the rest of the country will be looking till they the North by themselve wipe themselves out of Nigeria map.

Since violent, Boko animal, religious silliness, enrmy of education and enlightment are what they want and love let them keep it up and keep their complain to their pocket and who bloody care if it takes them 100 years to recover or give a f u c k if it take 200 years to recover?

Let Abubakar, Buhari, IBB, the Emirs and their so called political godfathers keep silent and pretend as if nothing is happening AND fold their arms till they by their own hands turn their region to second Somalia so be it with all pleasure. I have no pity for the North BECAUSE any man or group or tribe that hate "PEACE will dwell in PIECES"

U re too much bro this well said and properly articulated. No they will be seeking oil money to rehabilitate them. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia they visit every year does not despise western education. Bunch of fools and morons.that why people like us is clamouring for regional government.

[b][/b]Men are like a beaten baby who finds solace in the hand of another person who pets him. The baby might not want to come back until when he is enticed. Kindly be close to your Dad speak and discuss with him you will find out some certain hidden secrets in your home.

Do not judge so that ye shall not be judged for the measure at which you use to judge other you shall be judged with. God knows the best and He shall give to everyone according to his or her behaviour.

[quote author=GARRI (x7)]Yoruba Muslims are very liberal and open-minded. So unlike the hardcore muslims up north..

On the other hand our churches are extremely materialistic, they'd not mind inviting Osama Bin Laden to church as long as he'll sow a "seed"[/quote]Love your first paragraph, I wonder the devil that entered into you on the second paragraph.

Briefing journalists on Wednesday, the Senate spokesperson, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe explained that the Terrorism Prevention Act was passed by both houses of the national assembly and signed by President Goodluck Jonathan on June 3, 2011.

According to him, the law was also amended on the 17th of October, 2012 to further expand the scope of the bill.

Senator Abaribe said the Senate was surprised by comments made by the Police boss that there was no law to prosecute arrested suspected terrorists.

The IGP, while responding to questions over the inability of the police to prosecute terrorists on Tuesday, had alleged that there were no laws in the country to prosecute them.

“The Senate is surprised that the Inspector-General of Police will say there is no anti-terrorist law” Senator Abaribe stated, adding that “in fact, I have here a copy of the Terrorism Prevention Act of 2011 signed by President Goodluck Jonathan.”

“The Act was passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on June 1, 2011 and on June 2, 2011; it was forwarded by the Clerk to President Jonathan.

“The bill was so important to the President that he signed it into law on June 3, 2011.”

“The bill makes elaborate provisions for prosecuting persons who have committed terrorism acts.”

The Senate spokesperson further explained that there has been an amendment to the bill which was passed on October 17, 2012.

“The amendment was merely to expand the part of the provision in that bill, but everything that you need to fight the war against terrorism is already in the bill.”

“We will send a copy of this bill again to the I-G” Senator Abaribe declared as he expressed the Senate’s strong concerns saying “we find it difficult to believe that an arm of government will say we don’t have a law signed by the President.”

The Senator cautioned the police not to hold onto the claims of no laws as an excuse not to prosecute terrorists.

Why is Nigeria government and her agencies messing themselves up with a story like this. I am just thinking aloud because nothing will come out of this. Its better they keep quiet.

koruji: Are you kidding?
GEJ's weakness is what makes this possible

What concern GEJ about this. Have you forgotten what is called Principle of separation of powers. What do you expect GEJ to do put Facroock in prison without due process and its people like you that will tag him as autocratic. You just can't hide your hatred for GEJ and I wonder how far you want to go with this behaviour.

Youngzedd: Total removal of what?
Did u smoke weed? (Sorry for the harsh word though)

What have you done to subsidy scammers now u want to remove it entirely and enrich the pocket of morons.
what result did we get from those scammers that were found guilty.

If say na joke better stop am Mr President.

We no be M.U.M.U

una wan do coding again abi.

Where is Pastor Tunde Bakere.

Bros no be GEJ go prosecute the scammers o. And if he should poke nose too much una go accuse him of him of being a dictator. If the relevant agencies and authorities refused to do their jobs na GEJ go do am for them. He has tried to expose the fraudsters and u want him to prosecute and jail them when we have judiciary and police not doing their jobs. I still believe principle of separation of powers is still in Nigeria constitution

ochukwuma15: Nigerian judiciary is in a mess right now. A lot of corrupt practices is going on in the judiciary.

Lawyers, judges, magistrates and other judiciary workers do know that for you to be rich, you have to turn a blind eye and allow evil to thrive in the country.

It's sad and sympathetic that all these vices are happening during the reign of Mrs. Mariam Aloma Muktar, a woman i respect so much, but i'm suspecting that her hands are tied. She can do little or nothing to fight corrupt Nigerians who you and i knows vividly what they can do.

For Nigerian corrupt citizens to be arraigned properly in court and be jailed, the president must be out to fight corruption and Goodluck Ebele Jonathan i know will never do that because of reasons best known to him.

Hope is a gift to mankind from Almighty, Nigerians should hope that one day, God will change the status quo, till then, our hope lies sadly on the british judiciary ........ Chuks writes from Enugu, Nigeria.

I think that Murktar Aloma woman promised to sanitise our judicial system, she just kept mute sine she was sworn in. Nigeria we hail thee

Prof Corruption: In any corruption case: there must be a giver, the receiver and evidence. The law does not exonerate the giver.

But what about a situation where the giver had already informed the security agency and the money was maked before handling it over to the receiver. Meanwhile the security angency hesitated to arrest the receiver with the excuse that they wanted to use the marked money as a bait for other corrupt representative whom Frouk might be fronting for. Let us be guided and follow events well before passing comments.

Any advocate of Dino in the house should just tell me the type of business Dino has done that gave him this stupendous wealth? If no the guy na donkey fucker.

debrief08: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkNigeria/message/44361
A 59-year-old Nigerian neurosurgeon at Providence Hospital, Dr. Ikemba Iweala, husband of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has confessed that he started an affair with a 20-something year old nurse who hailed from his native country. But what happened next, authorities say, made him a hapless victim of a scam that has been pulled in Nigerian communities around the world.

The nurse and a mysterious partner began demanding that the doctor turn over large sums of money — overtime, a total of $180,000 — to keep the affair a secret from the doctor’s wife, a prominent World Bank official and Brookings Institution scholar. They said they had pictures of him and the nurse during assignations in a car.

The doctor paid up, but his wife found out anyway, according to court papers filed in the case, and now the whole sorry mess is being painfully replayed at the federal courthouse in Washington, where the nurse is on trial on extortion charges.

The embarrassed doctor told the jury that his stupidity sullied his and his family’s reputation and seriously wounded his marriage.

“Things will never be the same,” a frail-looking, gray-bearded Ikemba Iweala said with a sigh as he testified on November 2. “I am still married. . . . But I feel very angry at myself. And, I have lost a lot of money.”

Iweala hoped to conceal the affair and protect his community standing in the United States and in Nigeria, he acknowledged to prosecutors. Other members of his family, based in the cozy suburb of Potomac and with high profiles in their own fields, had much at stake as well.
His wife, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is a former foreign and finance minister for Nigeria and a veteran employee of the World Bank. She is a Harvard-educated economist and was mentioned as a possible successor to Paul D. Wolfowitz, who resigned as president in June. This month, the new World Bank president, Robert B. Zoellick, made her one of his top deputies.

Uzodinma Iweala, the couple’s son, who graduated from St. Albans and Harvard, is the author of the critically acclaimed “Beasts of No Nation,” his first novel. The fictionalized story of an African child warrior was released last year.

The doctor’s paramour, Queen Nwoye, 28, on trial before U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle, insisted that she, too, was a victim.

Testifying in her own defense, she admitted yesterday that she helped collect the money and helped her boyfriend, Adriane Osuagwu, pretend to be her cousin so he could conceal his identity. But with a sullen face and insistent cries, Nwoye testified that she was powerless to resist the orders of Osuagwu, whom she described as a physically abusive, controlling man and the scheme’s mastermind.

“This is a sad case,” Nwoye’s attorney, John Iweanoge, told jurors in opening statements earlier in the week. “You’re going to hear evidence of adultery, no question. You’re going to hear about money going into Ms. Nwoye’s accounts.”

But, the defense attorney continued, “Ms. Nwoye was a victim too, She made the mistake of her life falling in love in the middle of a divorce with the wrong man.”

According to court papers, the story began in early 2002 when Nwoye, then a nurse in training, noticed the doctor’s name in a hospital directory. She said she recognized Iweala as a fellow Nigerian and introduced herself. They became friends, and, in September 2002, they became lovers. The sexual relationship ended in August 2003, they both said, but their

friendship continued.
Nearly three years later, in February 2006, Iweala testified, he received a surprise call from Nwoye. She told Iweala that he must call her cousin “Ufondu” in Georgia. It was then that “Ufondu,” an alias that the nurse’s new boyfriend was using, demanded that the doctor pay $20,000 or he would tell Iweala’s wife about the affair.

Culled from Washington Post.

What is the relationship of this post to the topic that is being discussed?

234GT: But Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's husband, a medical doctor in the US, was involved in a horrible sex scandal with a nurse. Make she face her husband joor!

What brought about the digression now. If you cannot contribute meaning fully to the post can't you shut up your trap. What concerns Okonjo husband on this matter. Talking like you are a saint but saints are in heaven

[quote author=Nwando.l.].I disagree with u,if he had witheld there salaries people like u W̶̲̥̅̊Iι̥ι̥ still say its too harsh aπϑ demand for a simple warning instead. We need harsh treatment in dis country for thing to move smoothly[/quote]I buy your idea my brother. We really need harsh penalties for indolent and corrupt people in this country. The only reasons why people are blaming the president is that he needs not spare anybody. The only language Nigerian people understand is serious punishments. Others will sit tight now and Edo will be a cynosure in the committee of states in terms of educational development etc

sadeiyare: One of the reason for this is because most Men are just too demanding, because they have this stone-age mentality about marriage.

It was that stone age mentality that made marriages worked then. What do we have now. What you even have as good marriage now in carrier women is either the husband is compromising his staus as d husband because of lack of financial capabilities. That is why some carrier women find it very appropriate to marry guys that are below them financially or end up being second or third wife.

obadiah777: IGNORAMUS

Thank you my brother. They should go and ask Lebanon.

la furia: is not who wins the war that will be isreals problem but damage to the land of isreal if iran launch 2 nuclear weapons to isreal. the damage a nuclear bomb does can only be best imagined. we can ask about hiroshima. if one tsar bomba (russia nuclear weapons) is used in lagos, it will wipe out lagos and ogun state. nobody wins a war when both sides have nukes, reason isreal wants an early strike.

So Israel will be watching Iran launching nuclear weapon on them. My brother war technology has advanced more than this. Israel is loved by God and there is no argument about this, anybody that wants to disclaim this should ask Moses the punishment meted on him for calling God's beloved people rebels

bibiking1: deport them! Quickly

Are u jealous? Why being so callous?

Good radiance to bad rubbish.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]You intellectuals and elitists should be ashamed of yourselves for promoting the violation of human rights of fellow Nigerians instead of spending energy to prevent same.

This action by Ogun state cannot be enforced and will be resisted by force. The state official who made this announcement is irresponsible and just playing for cheap publicity - I await his enforcement of this rule.

I'll probably work to organize herdsmen to dare authorities to enforce this rule. Nonesense!!![/quote]I pity u, if members of your family have been injured or killed by any of these herdsmen you will not be quoting the useless constitution that does not defend the masses but the rich. A sensitive government wants to do something about this issue u re claiming yeye constitution.

The problem is that Nigerian leaders take action before they think. With cashless or cash lite society do we need 5k notes. As its known in the culture of Nigerians we don't like spending coins unless in ananother country. Why can Sanusi make 100 naira the highest denomination so as to encourage cash less policy. I sense some people wan chop by awarding printing contract. God bless naija

1025: i know this jonathan is never to be taken serious at any time. january this year, he told us that there was no going back but he later came down to 97 and this time around again, he said there was no going back on N5000 note but he is going back now.
the other time he disbanded the super eagles and immediately ppl shouted at him, he changed. instead of behaving like this, the wise thing would be to think very well and make the right consultations before coming to the public to announce.

Do you want him to be dictator? That is the beauty of democracy. If he refused to change is mind will heaven fall. Nigerians will just shout and keep quiet move on with their lives.

naptu2: Well, then in the end your complaint won't make any difference because nobody will be punished.

If you get the info above and (1) send to the media (2) publish online (3) send to the governor (4) make a complaint, then you can make a difference, but the problems continue because people "do not have the time to waste".

And they will continue to be complaining because they don't have time. In every organisation, there are always bad ones and we cannot rule out that. And because there is no follow up to this bad habit of some lastma officials makes them to continue to perpetrate this act, when they know people are taking them up, thius act will reduce drastically.the OP parted with 10k without knowing his offence and if by tomorrow he is arrested again he will continue to be ripped off. Think there is something missing in his post.