₦airaland Forum

Essiens passing has improved a lot.

I've never been fan of Ramires technical skills except his ability to run, run and run covers all sins. Ramires usefulness will be more evident when Bosingwa returns. He will be used to cover the right side whenever Bosingwa goes marauding ala Maicon/Ramires partnership for Brazil.

1966 - Thousands of corpses return home on death trains from the North.

January 1966 - Aguiyi Ironsi collapses the Federation into a unitary system of Government.

1971 - Gowon tears up fiscal federalism to boot.


Sept 21, 1978 - OBJ and Northern military commanders force new constitution on the country at barrel of gun, including the Petroleum and Land acts which allow Nigerian military to throw any Niger Delta off his ancestral land and kill him if he doth protest.

Good move by Van Maarwijk.

I hope Raddy Antic or whoever is Serbias coach now would do the same to that thug Vidic who seems to get away with murder in the Prem.

I would assume that any Nigerian who campaigned for Shaghari was either of mating age or voting age. They are the same to me. Hehehehe.

@ Na so,

Every man and his dog knows that MEND cannot be divorced from Okah and Gbomo. You only have to ask Wole Soyinka about who he was meeting severally in Abuja when he was representing MEND as part of the Aaron team. Jonathan cannot define MEND as he wishes. MEND is behind the attack.

Could someone tell the ROFLMAO binsh to stop preaching to the choir?

I have asked her politely to ignore me several times, but it seems she prefers to get dissed first.

It is a shame that her barrenness never allowed her to produce a daughter cos I can vouch that I would be young enough to service any daughter she produced. This is someone who was campaigning for Shagari well before I was born, so I assume she was of mating age back then.

We would cross that bridge when we get there.

These so called thugs now work for Nigeria so the same can be said of Nigeria. They will soon be put to work at election time. Nigeria will also have to deal with their problem someday. It seems they are so much in demand for their "skills".

Babangida cannot contest, says all right thinking Nigerians.

This old cobwebbed spinster of roflmao fame better sod off. I thought I had understanding with this expired menopausal binsh to ignore each other.

@ Oyb,

They are fighting each other anyway so what would have changed?

@ Oyb,

You would not know whether peeps have been tamed or not unless you were on ground.

When guys go from attacking their own people and burning villages to attacking Fed Govt installations, by every definition, they have been tamed. When Ijaw and Itsekiri warlords go from tribal warfare to focusing their energies on Govt installations, they have been tamed. In 2003, I could not go home to my village else I would be killed just for being from that village. You take guys away from local politics, tribal warfare and election rigging and focus them on National issue, they stop posing less threat to their immediate kinsmen.

As for strikes and whatnot, Yorubas did well in June 12. They control the media and financial services/civil sector and could bring the country to a standstill.

SaroWiwa had organised 300000 man march and brought international attention to our cause. This was followed by bombings of Ogoni villages and all sort. Granted, if we had good organisers like Saro, there would be street movement in furtherance of our cause. This is what MEND tried to achieve by coopting likes of Ledum Mitee and Soyinka to bring that people and political movement to bear. However, we have learnt from bitter history that the main way to get Nigeria to listen is to stop the flow of our lands blood (oil). Make no mistake, measures like 10% Petroleum bill and local content bill are the result of MENDS handiwork. Yara chose to give such carrots whilst buying out MENDS "contract staff" with amnesty, but there is still long way to go.

@ Beaf, I never claimed Okah is Gbomo. Gbomo and Okah never deviate from the same position though.

@ Oyb,

You worry about the fallout of revolutions. MEND did not create the beast. It only tamed the beast and gave it political direction.

Secondly, there is no armed guerilla movement which would go and start raising army of consientious men. Such are logistics of war. They would not come to your house and recruit you for your beliefs. When you enter war situation, you might piss in your pant. Even when OPC were fighting for June 12, they go and hire the most rugged area boys to cause havoc, not men with lily livers.

Some peeps would soon declare Eldee persona non grata

Eldee, come on spit that fire mehn. No fall boys hand!

oyb:
^^^^

but the 'real mend' retained the services of these 'illiterates' to further their agenda under the aegis of mend, not so?

you cannot suddenly divorce the actions of your 'contract staff' from your organisation when it suits you

It makes no difference whether contract staff or not. These niggas were on ground causing havoc already till MEND (Okah/Gbomo) focused their activities toward a political movement in 2006. I did not approve of it, but such are the logistics of raising an army and conducting insurrection. I should know having had my village burnt down by Ateke in 2003.

The deeper part of this argument is that GEJ has these election riggers on board for 2011. MEND refused to engage in such shenanigans, and refused to engage in amnesty, staying true to their belief in struggle for resource control. They refused to play ball with GEJ, even denouncing JRC's attack on Dokpesi by stating that MEND is not interested in Nigerian elections, and stays focussed on the fight for resource control.

Now what we have is GEJ validating his "contract staff" as the real MEND. Such illiterates could never articulate what they are fighting for. Every communique issued by MEND till date comes from the nerve centre of Okah/Gbomo. GEJ himself has not made any moves toward constitutional review, fiscal federalism and resource control (with the exception of 10% Petroleum bill initiated by Yar'Adua and signed by GEJ). The only candidate who has articulated such position is IBB. GEJ is simply here to play the hand he was dealt and make the most for himself. This is inimical to MEND and immediately places them in opposition. I would remind all that MEND have always referred to GEJ as "Federal Houseboy" since 2007.

Like I said before, it is either GEJ arrest these so called "political opponents" who sponsored the blast, or we will take this as an overzealous strike by MEND in keeping with their political stance. The only problem MEND have this time is that they are on their own. Niger Deltans will not support this latest action because they are focussed on gaining the Presidency.

These are the people GEJ wants to call MEND. These are bunch of illiterate hired hands (with exception of Boyloaf).

The real MEND has always been Okah, Gbomo - the only ones who have ever articulated a political position for MEND. The ones who refused to drop weapons and the ones that Soyinka, Uranta and the likes have represented.

GEJ cannot come and tell us stories about who is MEND and who is not whilst validating the likes of Ateke and Gen Shoot at Sight to speak for the Niger Delta.

Howz that Kosc and Squillacci working for ya? (Sarah Palin voice)

That guy Alex Song is losing it big time. Someone needs to remind him that he is a DM, not a fancy dan tipper tapper. He has typical African mentality of thinking he's arrived. I hope he didn't get all this from he and Uncle Rigobert's shenanigans in the Cameroonian team.

Aleeeeeeeeeeeeex!

Why the hell did Ferreira just come on?

Lots of speculation here.

There is only one recognised MEND, namely the Henry Okah/Jomo Gbomo axis.

Tompolo and the rest have only worked for/as MEND, they cannot claim to be MEND.

Jomo Gbomo has always been the heart, soul and brains behind MEND.

If Jonathan claims that MEND were paid to carry out this attack, there is only one thing to make us believe: Simply arrest the so-called politicians behind this.

Otherwise, we would take this as an overzealous attack by MEND, done out of pure zeal.


The only other question that should be asked is why Henry Okah of known location in South Africa (who have extradition treaty with Nigeria) would carry out such attack. It is either Henry Okah is not involved, or he does not value his life or freedom.

Lets await further revelations.

One thing is clear though, namely that Jonathan cannot claim that these attacks are from his opponents without making any arrest.

The punk Duduface should be ashamed of himself. I started on -12 pts, now I done reach 21 pts, yet na only 6 points him fit muster.

His team is also valued at £96m meaning he has already lost £4m in just 6 weeks.

Eldee, Doodooface should be kicked out the league for GROSS incompetence.

Wetin be all this English? Please explain in Pidgin. I have not come across nouns and verbs since Primary 3.

One would not expect anything else but ROFLMAO from those whose vaccuous craniums cannot produce a rebuttal in the face of irrefutable logic.

Some punks who have been in America too long suppose that the vote guarantees that the will of the masses is heard. Sometime ago, this cobwebbed relic claimed to have campaigned for Shagari, only to see her vote usurped by militaristic elements just 2 years later. One would have thought that this cretin would go and blow herself up at the Presidential Palace to ensure that the sanctity of her vote is respected in keeping with her stance that the power of citizenry is sacrosanct. I am now expecting a lecture from this cretin on how Nigerians need to seize back power for themselves through the ballot box instead of making excuses. Unfortunately such utopia does not exist in Nigeria, so my only answer to this nincompoop is that Federal Government is responsible for prosecuting and deposing all corrupt State Govts.

In the event that anyone thinks differently, they should name a leader amongst them who is not a thief and what they did to prevent looters in their respective states. We will not put the cart before the horse. We demand our fair share, and let Nigeria sort out its attitude to corruption rather than giving a dog a bad name with which to hang it.

I would remind the cretin above that corrupt state leaders are to be tried by FEDERAL courts, prosecuted by FEDERAL agencies (EFCC, ICPC) and arrested by FEDERAL police. Any continuation of such inane arguments is illogical in light of the above statement.

This is the reason we called on Federal Government to intervene in the Ogun bond fiasco, not on Ogun State judiciary which has no jurisdiction or apparatus for dealing with such. Hence Gbenga Daniels continues to miscafon thanks to Federal Governments wishy washy approach to corruption and accountability.

Any further argument about this will make mockery of logic.


I am also waiting for anyone to counter my assertion that State Govt is responsible for 80% of our development, despite Federal Government receiving 50% of all our accruals from oil exports.

This bombing done do Nairaland like MI - Talk about it.

As for some punks claiming ND gets more allocation than most, I refer you to Eldee - Is it your money?

As for those saying that State Governors should be held responsible for underdevelopment, granted the point holds merit. The question is who is responsible for holding State Government accountable? Finally, if these punks of lilliputian cranial capacity can point me to any meaningful project the Federal Govt has executed with their 50% allocation, I would withdraw my assertion that State leaders are Angels compared to Federal leaders.

Finally, Mr President should make haste to arrest these alleged political opponents who sponsored the blast or be accused of seeking to make political gain out of a National catastrophe. I also expect that any right thinking citizen express anger at security forces for neglecting a 5 day warning. As is the case in most developed nations, citizens hold their security forces accountable to any such disaster rather than venting at bombers who have already sworn enmity to the nation.

Which buffon went and made the H2H league into a cup?

So even if I finish 20 points ahead of 2nd place (as I am on course to do), I still have to go and kwatar through Q-finals, Semi-finals and such?

Dem Mama, Dem Papa!!!

Did I say MEND FC? I meant Borokiri Boyz FC!

Van Der Vaart has returned my 12 point transfer penalty + change.

Fenibeso told me this week waz the best week to make loads of transfers cos me opponent Duduspace is weak.

Looks like MEND is marching on unless DD scores 4 goals tomorrow, although I'm sure Gerrard will cop me loads of captain points as well.

How market?

Word on the street is that Bebe was pants today.

$100m to plant a couple of car bombs? They should have outsourced the job to Afghans who would do it for $1000.

The SSS/Jonathan should either arrest the politicians or save these stories till they can name names and details.

Sorry darling. I hope you weren't scared witless by the boyz today. Any attempt by MEND to launder its image through MEND FC will be resisted, and as such we have decided to change our name. Stay tuned for more updates.

MEND will lose all support base they had in Niger Delta before this. Just spoke to a couple of conc MEND sympathisers and they're spitting feathers over this.

ohakim is a bloody liar.

@ Oyb,

I only say "if its the true MEND" cos I don't discount some political shenanigans by enemies of GEJ.

Trust if its the true MEND, I make no apologies. I have never distanced myself from armed struggle. My grouse is not that innocent lives were lost because there will always be casualties. My only grouse is that this action has no support in the Niger Delta.

My main problem with this action is that it doesn't have groundswell base support in Niger Delta. I cannot think of the rationale behind this except its somehow linked to elections.

As for those asking "what do these people want", if the true MEND is behind this, then I refer them to Rotimi Williams statement that "The constitution lied against itself ab initio by the opening statement of We the People". Those who forgot what the Niger Delta kerfuffle is about should remember that AMNESTY was never an end goal but constitutional review, fiscal federalism and land rights.

As for this bombing, its ill-advised, a PR disaster and has no moral basis considering that most Niger Deltans are presently focussed on getting Jonathan over the finishing line and want no trouble at this stage. All this could be linked to elections as Otokx opined, otherwise the only other explanation is that Henry Okah is an obdurate single-minded modafucka. No further comment till more evidence comes to light.