₦airaland Forum

Odunnu: Hahahahaha, same applies to High Chief.

Nnem I dont understand oh. You mean him reading my threads? Abeg come down to my level. Gracias

Rocktation: Each time I see you about Tpia, I wonder all over how anybody can be sooo full of vigor. You seem to be talking to everybody when no one seems to be talking to you.

[quote author=tpia@]thank you.[/quote]You need to be under lock and key

People should know this tpia needs help urgently, not funny anymore

[quote author=tpia@]Good Girl


girl, your posts are too slumberous.


not too much spice, far too much lukewarm water.[/quote]You are the female version of Becomerich. Gbamm

[quote author=tpia@]no thread derailment and I am not to be included in the nominees.[/quote]Have you seen that you are not okay, I advise you seek help asap(I mean this in a good way)

[quote author=tpia@]He has like a thousand ids so what's the big deal, gosh.

Poster, get a life.[/quote]Jolosi and badu belle, you know nobody takes note when you dont post. We even pray you dont post sef

Aigbofa: Really? Are we talking about a different Nigeria? Some of you really believe the fantasy you have been feeding yourselves on the internet.

Face your real enemy before they sniff life outta you. They have been throwing punches and no response from your camp

I have so much waited for this day. The truth is coming out gradually. Yoruba and cowardice. YeeeeeeeePaaaaaaaaaah

[quote author=*Ileke-IdI]WTF? @ ppl dressing up.

Exactly what was the point of publicizing this whole charade?

"Let us dress up, take pictures as we hand over 'stuffs' to 67 widows" Ppl with nothing better to do.[/quote]Publicizing it will motivate other people to do more for the less privileged and not dancing to "Gbedu" all through the celebration

centje: We r on top of the situation to find him. We wil set up committee to investigate the matter. Jst go abt doin ur lawful activities.

LWKMD. Thats naija for you bro

EzeUche: Igbo women are truly empowered.

And the good thing is that they still make good wives

[quote author=*Ileke-IdI]It happens. It has happened many times, esp in my state.

The thing about Nigerian Fulani Herdsmen is that they don't respect the citizens of the state that hosts them. Any simple disagreement causes chaos, and most times can be fatal. But ofcourse, they aren't always the one to start the problem.[/quote]There are some places they can't try that shiiittt

[quote author=De-Grace01]Unbeliveable! Bros I like your sense of reasoning, if other northerners in this country will see things this I think all the quarrel we often experience here will be over. Wtout being told I know they behind all these mess but the spirit of all those who lost their lives as a result of these evil act will hurt and hunt them to death. We need peace in this country.[/quote]And ndu_chucks is their foot soldier here on NL

Nothing stops GEJ to contest 2015, its left for the electorates to decide(thou not in the case of Nigeria). The North can go fcccuk themselves for all I care, this shows they have lost touch with modern Nigeria. Things have changed a lot, nobody checks or cares about what the North say or want. Fuckkkking those terrorists

ProfSule: After the drones are sent, then they will start stealing Nigeria's oil. Nothing goes for free, remember.

Nigeria's oil has always been stolen

fulfillment2020: If Chibundu is Ibo n ugly, then where's Linda from?

Why wasting your productive time on haters

Congrats to them. And Chibundu is just 21? Igbo gals always known for their hard-work, intelligence etc.

Spyder that road is really terrible, how do people now get home. I think with the present state of that road, maybe some guys from your town can just try and fix the road to an extent while waiting for the government, cos that road is really bad.

kingoflag: Lovely piece, but OP the link is wrong please get it right so we can reference it and blast it all over the web starting with Twitter and FaceBook which they now seem to hate so much.

The guys site was hacked, but I think he is working on it. I keep checking to know when it is up

Eko Ile: Get ready for ibo on ibo oyel wars..... Ibo on ibo atrocities......

lmao...

Shut up ode! Must you rear your ugly face on any thread that has Igbo on it. Go eat some fashola diiicck and get a life

Nigeria’s Senate president, David Bonaventure Mark, is deeply troubled. And his present state of mind is justifiable. The criminal empire which prince he’s one of is at the verge of crumbling, or so he thinks. He’s eyeing the kingship of the empire in a few years from now. He wants to rule and reign in the kingdom. He has amassed enough wealth and bought enough souls to make this possible. He dreams of joining the league of candidates for prison who became presidents of Nigeria in the last three or so decades.

But the turn of events, especially since January this year, has jolted him. It doesn’t seem as though he would have any smooth ride to the kingship he so much covets, neither would he have the rest of mind to consume the millions he has so far amassed. He recently heaped the blame on new media or social media. The credibility he has sought to build in the last thirteen years hasn’t even taken off the ground, to his utter dismay. Millions of Nigerians don’t see any reason to take him seriously. He knows – or thinks – social media is responsible for this.

Last Thursday, while declaring open a two-day retreat for Senate Press corps in Umuahia, Abia State, he said there was a need to check the use of social media as Nigerians were using them to demean their leaders. Hear him: “We need to change our attitude on how we report things about our country and we should emulate the foreign reporters who never report negative things about their countries.” So Mr Mark wants to sponsor – and pass - a legislation that would impose restrictions on the use of social media in Nigeria. Once that is done, his confidence in the empire will rebound, and his hopes of assuming the kingship will come back to live.

Again, Mr Mark is justified, because, you see, there’s so much money can buy; and there’s even much more plenty of money can buy. The more money you make without working, the more you want to spend without sweat. He pays himself N600 million from Nigeria’s treasury in one year. That isn’t heavenly or biblical year. It is earthly year as we know it; twelve calendar months, the one within which Barack Obama, the United States president, earns N60 million.

What Mr. Mark pays himself in one year is the salary of a US president for ten (yes, ten!) good years. What Nigeria’s number three citizen takes home, legally, in one year, is what the number one citizen of the world’s biggest economy, and only remaining super-power, earns in ten years. Because no president stays beyond eight years in America, it means what David Mark gives himself as earnings in one year is what will pay at least two American presidents – one for eight years and another one for extra two years. That means before Mark concludes his four year term, he would have amassed enough money from our treasury that will pay United States presidents for forty years! You see why he has to checkmate social media? You can’t have access to such amounts of free money without being sensitive to any avenue through which opposition rears its envious head.

Interestingly, what Mark is supposed to be doing to be taking such a humongous amount home every year is the same job the United States Vice President combines with his official job as the Vice, and for which he earns less than one-tenth of the money Mr Mark allocates to himself. Actually, it is the president of the US, not his Vice, who earns up to one-tenth of Mark’s annual bazaar. So for taking home N600 million for doing nothing, why will David Mark not feel threatened by social media?

It is even more annoying because years before now, nobody knew how much of injury his avarice –and those of his ilk - inflicted on the nation’s treasury. It was easy for him to buy up the entire mainstream media peopled by brown-envelope-seeking journalists and editors in a hurry to join the resource-grabbing frenzy of those who rule Nigeria. His Ghana-must-go bags were handy for willing media people who had no regards for the sacred role the society, and their jobs, had thrust upon them. Today, Mark can’t control what gets into the new media. He can’t control the number of people who read just a tweet, or Facebook post or blog post, detailing how much David Mark grabs monthly from the purse of a nation in pathetic poverty. He can’t control who reads this piece or who doesn’t. He can’t pull down this website or the other ones linked to it through which this piece will be read by thousands or millions of Nigerians. And this is why he is troubled.

There is also the conscience – or even emotional - side to his discomfort. He hates the poor, and gets angry at the sight of any poor person enjoying whatever he (Mark) considers a luxury. Most of the people who attack him and his tribe of nation-killers on social media do so with telephone which, years ago, he had declared wasn’t for the poor. The society-made super rich which Mark loves dearly can’t say anything wrong about him on social media. They are all colleagues in the nation-wrecking industry. Clearly, it is those “poor” ones, or those who should be poor but have somehow risen above it, that criticise Mark.

As Babangida’s minister of communication, he told whoever cared to listen to perish the thoughts of making telephone available to Nigerians. He stated, clearly, that telephone wasn’t for the poor. It was for the rich, eaters of hundreds of millions of naira from Nigeria’s commonwealth. Today, the senator watches even roadside mechanics clutching their phones, reading the internet and seeing how much of a curse to them this government has become. If you were Mark, you’d be troubled too.

He saw the shape of things to come from social media last January. The OccupyNigeria protests jolted him and his co-travellers. Forget the lies they took to the market of how opposition hijacked the protests, he knew that the power of social media was at work. But for lack of patriotism of the labour leaders who sold the protests to Mark and his government, the government would have been brought down. And since then, he has watched the social media project himself and the government in their true picture: enemies of the Nigerian people. He saw the Arab spring and how social media swept away his mentors in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and others. The senate president has stomached enough. He isn’t going to take it anymore.

It is a paradox that the same society which David Mark has so much undermined sent him to the Senate to represent them. It is even more shocking that the same Mark was made the president of the Senate, the nation’s symbol of democracy. Yet it is more paradoxical that the head of the institution which should bear the torchlight of democracy is the first person who has openly demonstrated his desire to outlaw the right of the people to freely express themselves.

Mr Mark’s ingratitude deserves a special mention. Here’s a man who was part of Babangida’s gang that collapsed Nigeria’s economy while their private economies, represented by their numerous bank accounts, blossomed. This is the same Mark who failed as a communications minister. Isn’t he supposed to be serving a lifetime in jail? Instead, he bulldozed his way through our polity and just happened in the senate. And for not taking a punitive action against him for his failure, he has got emboldened to punish us.

David Mark has always represented darkness in Nigeria. The senate he leads, which is an effective retirement house for former state treasury looters, has represented everything a nation’s senate should not be. While the lower house rose to the defence of Nigerians during the fuel subsidy protests, Mr Mark and his senate looked the other way round just to preserve the darkness which so much benefits him. While the lower house set up committees upon committees to perform their constitutional oversight functions on federal government ministries, departments and agencies, Mark’s senate chose silence which darkness brings.

He is preaching how reporters should follow their foreign counterparts. Unfortunately, the Senate president, like the other “leaders” in Nigeria, does not read. That raises another question: what does he do with the newspaper allowance he pays himself? If he reads American or British newspapers, then he would understand that a vibrant media will always question their leaders.

But let’s even assume Mark is right about foreign reporters not reporting the negatives about their countries; and we choose to emulate them, has Mark emulated the same foreign countries in insisting that politicians only earn realistic and sustainable salaries? Part of what he wants us to report is that he doesn’t pay himself ten times the salary of the US president, or that he hasn’t made efforts to frustrate, through his senate, the demand of Nigerians that subsidy thieves be prosecuted. Mr Mark hasn’t seen anything yet.

I understand he is a Christian. I would refer him to an interesting portion of the Bible. It is John 1:5:

“The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not.”

New media is the light of the 21st Century, it is shining forth and forcing darkness to give way.

In the coming days and weeks and months, we would know who gives way between David Mark and social media. But I am convinced it won’t be the latter.



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lalaboi: http://www.thefirstrow.eu/watch/81471/1/watch-chelsea-tv.html

lalaboi: http://www.thefirstrow.eu/watch/81471/1/watch-chelsea-tv.html

Thanks bro. Watching now

Pls any online link to watch the Chelsea v AC Milan Match?

Oscar deal is Signed, sealed and delivered. Cant wait for next season, already got my Hazard and Lamps jersey

spyder880: Nenwe is a neighboring town of mine and I have many friends from there. One day I will pass from Nenwe when going home.

Bro, I will be demanding for your contact very soon. Good to know you are a builder. Nice one and more pics pls

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]High_Chief and his mid-dawn gallon of rum lol.


We all know the ish is fake.[/quote]

asha 80: i have noticed that hardly hear a news of him commisioning anything.if you are not careful you will think nothing is happening there.however i also think he needs to focus on the rural areas this term

Honestly, I respect him for that too, the guy hardly makes noise or publicize anything he does. They are not even shown on tv and other media means. Unlike other governors that will do little from the plenty resources they have and will publicize it everywhere. Chime doesnt even waste time on road constructions. He is doing just fine

What could Nigeria possibly trade with Pakistan?

spyder880: You mean the Akpaka Njamina of Coal Camp!?

Not that one oh. The guy na real bad guy those days. Is he still alive?