₦airaland Forum

texazzpete:
This is not about whether there are factions in MEND, or who gets to say what. It's simply that MEND have done nothing to show that they are in this struggle for anyone apart from themselves.
Once again i draw a parallel between the self-serving actions of these people and the actions of other groups like Hezbollah and Hamas that actually actively take steps to assist the common man in their areas of operation.

At the end of the day, you'll see the demands they'll make will be no less selfish than these ludicrous demands.

You gotta be one of the silliest MFs known to humankind. . . . what do you term as "being in the struggle for anyone apart from themselves". . . . whats the monetary gain of travelling 200miles offshore to blow-up Bonga oil platform? Or travelling 200 miles to Lagos?. . . . . you have been warned that it is open-season on members of your profession in the Niger-Delta . . . . I am sure its affecting you, thats why you are constantly spewing gobbledygook.

nex:
@Ibime

you mean MEND now has factions? This is terrible news for everybody. So not only can they fight the government and cause havoc to the oil companies, they can also fight amongst themselves.

So if this Victor Ben gets N3 billion and 10,000 units of 3 bedroom flats while Gbomo Jomo gets nothing, what happens?

MEND has never been a unitary body, they just hire different militants to carry out attacks. . . . of course, there are ideological differences. . . the split between some Bayelsa and Delta militant wings is no longer news. . . . theres been rumours of a split since 2008, thats why the spearhead of MEND mostly come from Delta State these days. . . . like I said, just wait till Okah, Gbomo or Asari speak before jumping the gun. . . . every organisation has splits whether its MEND with Okah/Ben or PDP with OBJ/Atiku.  

tubabie:
Care to throw more light on your post please?

Look at the contradiction in the 2 stories. The first one says militants want N3bn, the other one says MEND not interested in meeting Y'Aradua. I quote from Henry Okah:

We are not interested in any direct talks with the President. There are some of us that crave such meetings and those are in the minority and they are doing so for selfish monetary gains. As long as the President gets our message from Timi Alaibe or from the pages of newspapers, meeting him is not as important as the actions he takes to bring about the change every Nigerian now craves for, such as fiscal federalism”.

mbulela:
This was made known to newsmen by Chief Mediator of MEND and other militant groups in the amnesty discussion, Prince Joseph Etella Harry.

Rubbish. Prince Harry is not a MEND negotiator. Lazy journalism as usual. Theres been a split in MEND with the Bayelsa faction of Victor Bens militants selling out the struggle for monetary gains. Prince Harry is negotiating for Victor Ben and the Bayelsa boys, not MEND. MEND is only interested in the cause they have stated time and time again - fiscal federalism!

The journalism is so lazy, that to him, this is a N3bn deal, at N300,000 for 10,000 machine guns. What kind of journalism is this?

It is not even worth commenting further on this type of lazy journalism. Those who detract from Niger-Delta agitation would see this as a cause for back-slapping, but until you hear from Okah or Jomo Gbomo himself, all this is rubbish.

If one was stupid, one would be led to believe that the militants risked life and limb to travel to bomb Lagos, just to increase the price of their AK47's from say N100,000 to N300,000.  

Lazy journalism. . . . Prince Joseph Etella Harry is negotiating for 'militants', not MEND.

Breaking News:

Everton sign Senderos for £6m

asha 80:
[flash=400,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/qw5a9Qt-T_A[/flash]

Look at these inept Nigerian Police. . . . how many shots do they need to hit a stationary target?. . . . they were shooting for one minute before a bullet actually touched him.

God save Nigeria.

dayokanu:
Where does Chelsea management drink from.

If you count the number of wasted players in the last 5 years No one would doubt that a buncha drunks are running things at Stamford bridge

From Winston Bogarde who pocketed 40,000 a week and made 9 appearances in 4 years to Andriy Shevchenko 30million 9 goals can you do the maths?

Chelsea is the Maga of Europe.

At least Madrid is spending on World footballer of the years not SWP and Mateja Kezman

Tell me about it. . . . following the club called Chelsea is really disheartening. . . just last summer, some idiot decided to give Paulo Ferreira a 5 year contract, now we cant shift him anywhere. . . . Peter Kenyon is an idiot. He must have made the decision to give Paulo a new contract based on his training at Business School i.e "Paulo is a £13m asset, we better give him a new contract to avoid this asset walking away for nothing". Meanwhile every idiot with an iota of footie sense knows that you would struggle to give Paulo away for free. . . . we have 3 years worth of deadwood still on the books. . . Ferreira, Pizarro, Sheva, Deco etc. . . .we cant even give them away for love or money. . . and now they wanna add Pirlo to that list. . . . in another couple of years, we can add Drogba, Terry to the list of deadwood who they are giving long term contracts to, knowing they will be finished in a year or two. . .

. . .

I would not be in the least bit surprised to discover that itk419 received a traumatic shock to his frontal lobe as a child, antecedentally informing his failure to decipher even a vestige of reason in Ibimes verbose commentary. That much is evident in the wild-goose chase he led all and sundry on, in his attempt to find meaning in my original post. His comprehension of my original post was so wide of the mark, if he was an archer, he would have shot one of the spectators in the stadium. His personalisation of what is a generic matter only speaks of his incongruence with the finer expressions of the English language. The aforementioned itk419 is easily riled up when you question his comprehension of literature and seeks to address his insecurities by course of personal attacks. In this respect, he finds avuncularity in another infamous creature with similar characteristics - Olusegun Obasanjo!

dayokanu:
Former Arsenal star Freddie Ljungberg last night revealed for the first time the bitterness behind his departure from the Gunners and his fall-out with Arsene Wenger

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1024009/Still-sore-departure-bitter-Ljungberg-lashes-Arsenal-Wenger.html#ixzz0N7l8j7UP

Our elders wisely informed us that success adds weight to the words of a man. A man should never kick against his benefactor unless he is able to control his own destiny. It is important to note that this interview was dated June 2008, shortly before West Ham dispatched with his services. If Freddie had known of the plot being hatched by Luigi Nani to tear up his contract, he wouldnt have been so hasty to castigate Arsene Wenger.  This closet Sodomite called Freddie Ljungberg must now be filled with compunction at the thought that he spoke too soon. As they say, pride goes before a fall.

Cougar:
twaddle! kiko macheda will have to give up football before he can claim any penny from the DSS.
can you work and claim at the same time?

I have long known that most Mancs lack comprehension, but I did not know that illiteracy was also a de jure pre-requisite to joining the festering ranks of intellectually-moribund Mancunians.

Where in my post did I refer to Kiko Macheda? Of course I was referring to Macheda Senior's claims that if Lazio had offered him a job for 500 Euros per month he would have made Kiko stay in Rome.

Before one proceeds to bestow gratuitous insults on the person of Kolo Toure, one needs to disentangle the flappable qualities of Kolo Toure from the leadership qualities of immutable stalwarts like Gilberto Silva, Patrick Vieira, Robert Pires and Sol Campbell. Kolo Toure does make some salient points about the leadership qualities (or lack thereof) of the present Arsenal team as juxtaposed against what was obtainable 3 years ago. However the folly of Kolo's assertion is that he tries to bask in the reflected glory of the aforementioned leaders and ropes himself into their comity by association. This is a spurious claim. Kolo Toure was always a junior member of the comity of Arsenal stalwarts and any claim to leadership capabilities on his part portends an erosion of what we have come to recognise as true leadership. However there is no doubt that not a single member of the current Arsenal squad can be classed as a leader.

One cannot feign surprise at the money-grabbing antics of the Macheda family. However one has to question the gullibility of anyone who swallows Mr Machedas story hook, line, sinker and fishing boat. Despite the fact that I know most Mancs to be gormless, I can only explain their acceptance of Mr Machedas story on the grounds that Mancs have a preclivity to whitewashing their clubs unjust practices in order to forego any moral quandary about their affiliation to Manchester United. Mr Machedas claim that his sons stay at Lazio was predicated on Claudio Lotito offering him a job for E500 per month is an exercise in glibness. Infact, any breadwinner who makes such spurious claims should first consider how it reflects on himself as the breadwinner of the family. Does Mr Macheda know that any job which pays said amount would most likely contravene EU statutes on employment rights, and in particular laws governing the minimum wage for workers? Mr Macheda must assume that our mitochondria has been wholly ineffective in supplying enough nutrients to allow our cranial facilities to function properly, for we all know that he could requisition the said 500 Euros per month from the Department for Social Security without any pre-requisite trade-off for his labour.

Sahara are one of the only News Agencies which give us news without prejudice or prior agenda. Up Sahara!

I had long known that the gene responsible for Myopia is inextricably embedded in the DNA of most Gaynners. How can a nincompoop enlist his mouse and keyboard to incite pernicious sentiments against the person of one Mr Denilson? The myopic individual responsible for such a statement must have viewed Denilsons contribution through the narrow prism of his qualities as a DM. It is an insult to footie terminology to describe Denilson as a DM, however anyone with a fully functioning cornea can attest to the fact that Denilson is a good player. The aforementioned nincompoop even went as far as stating that Denilsons passing is woeful, when infact Denilson is one of the best passers of the football in the English Premier League. A player like Denilson is averse to losing possession, and can starve an opposition midfield of the football just by passing them to death. That he does not attempt many through balls is a function of his position on the pitch and his attitude to risk. Denilson is top of any statistical index for successful passes, and should be lauded for his ability with a football.

eldee:
He's just 30, same age as Drogba
Wasn't Ballack 30 when he came to Chelski??

Obviously you havent been watching Italian football or the Confed Cup or Milans pre-season. . . . Pirlo is finished!. . . .even when he was 25, he couldnt play in the Prem because he is just too weak. . . . even Shevchenko at 30 when he came to Chelsea was in better shape than Pirlo is now.

May God save Chelsea.


Someone buzz me when Ancelotti gets sacked.

nateevs:
This is not a case of chatting rubbish. . .
You want me to believe yours when you won't believe mine

According to the article, Galliani did not say "Chelsea bid for Pirlo is too low" Rather he said,
"At this price Pirlo is not for sale," Galliani told Italy's Sky television."

He spoke on Italia TV so he def spoke Italian. . WE don't even know the circumstance of the question he was asked. . .
Maybe he said something like . . . "I don't know of any offer but At this price Pirlo is not for sale,"


Berlusconi has spoken and his words are clear. . . .
"They are all stories, there's no truth at all,"



Why is it hard to believe that?

Ol' boy, Berlusconi is a born liar. . . . even after everyone watched the video of him sleeping with some young chicks in Italy, he claimed it wasnt him like Shaggy and R Kelly  . . . . .

Too much smoke around this story, and theres no smoke without fire. . . . peeps even saying Pirlos getting ready to hand in transfer request. . . . . you better believe that any story which makes the BBC front page is 95% correct. . . . BBC do not post housewives tales without corroborating the story. . .

If Ancelotti wants me to be happy as a Chelsea fan, he better drop this stupid pursuit of Pirlo right now!. . . .  I am fed-up to the teeth of the gullible RA being taken for a ride by idiots year after year. I want my club to be respectable abeg. Not a year goes by when we dont make at least 3 catastrophic signings. . . . and EVERYONE KNOWS the signings are a mistake even before we make them. . . . I am fed up!

Nateevs, stop chatting rubbish.

Adriano Galliani says that Chelsea bid for Pirlo is too low and you are here chatting bollocks.

A bid has already been made i.e. the idiot called Ancelotti considers the slow washed up ninny called Pirlo as a viable signing for Chelsea.

Has the world gone mad? I am totally fed up right now.

Phock Ancelotti. If this deal goes through, I will be watching La Liga football for this season until the idiot gets sacked.

All of you claiming that the idiot called Carlo Ancelotti is not interested in Pirlo. . . .look what I am reading on BBC front page:


[center][size=14pt]Milan dismiss Chelsea Pirlo offer  [/size] [/center]


AC Milan chief executive Adriano Galliani says Chelsea's offer for Italy midfielder Andrea Pirlo is too low for them to consider.

Piro, 30, is being pursued by Chelsea, who have reportedly offered about £6.75m plus striker Claudio Pizarro.

"At this price Pirlo is not for sale," Galliani told Italy's Sky television."

Meanwhile, a Salomon Kalou goal and an Alex Pearce own goal earned Chelsea a 2-2 draw at Reading after they had been 2-0 down with a minute left to play.

Carlo Ancelotti fielded a strong Blues side for their final pre-season match, but the new Chelsea coach is keen to bring in Pirlo, who he convinced to join AC from Milan rivals Inter in 2001, to his squad.

Pirlo is a dead-ball specialist who has helped Milan win one Serie A title and two Champions League crowns. The playmaker was also in Italy's 2006 World Cup winning squad.

If Ancelotti gets his man, Pirlo will become the club's fourth signing of the summer, following Yuri Zhirkov, Daniel Sturridge and Ross Turnbull to Stamford Bridge.




http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/8179912.stm

So we played today? I didnt even know.

I been telling you guys that Carlo is lost. Imagine his nonsense diamond formation with no width. That one na Scolari part2. . . . and the idiot is still looking for Pirlo. . . . from what I gather from you guys on here, we were rubbish. Someone please update me on the match.

Motherphocker. . . . so the match ended 2-1. . . had to leave 15 mins early to avoid traffic. . . . Wilshere is ripe. . . I was confused cos I was sitting in the upper tier and Wilshere and Ramsey both look like Arshavin from there. . . .and I thought Arshavin had come on at half-time in place of Ramsey, so I attributed many of Wiltsheres moves to Arshavin. . . it was only when Arshavin came on that I realised that Wilshere was the one busting all those skills. . . . that kid is the truth!

naijaking1:
So, wealth, mineral resources and oil are no longer the driving forces for the Niger-delta? Just keep shifting the goal post of this discussion as you like. You do understand that we existed before oil, during oil, and we will do even better after oil is gone. I like to see a purely Ijaw nationalistic discussion devoid of oil. Even when somebody on this particular thead had said Igbos wanted to steal and control their oil, you agreed.

Can you imagine this bloody cheek!   

Ijaws want the right to make their own decisions, but Biafra would not let them because of their oil. In turn, Nigeria would not let Biafra go because of the Niger-Delta oil. How can we mention the civil-war without mentioning oil, when the Hausas themselves wanted to leave Nigeria but for the discovery of oil. It seems others even thirst for the oil more than the owners of the oil. The oil is the secondary matter for the Ijaw, but for Ojukwu/Gowon, it is the PRIMARY matter!

Aburi accord holds just as true for the minorities in Biafra as it does for the Igbo in Nigeria.

Pharoah let my people go.

naijaking1:
For a guy who grew up on the sweat and wealth of eastern Nigerians, before oil was discovered, he suddenly forgot how dependent his people were on Enugu.

Arrogant claptrap!

Dont get your knickers in a twist thinking this is about money, coal, crude-oil or the palm-oil trade, all of which "Adaka-Boro's people" participated in.

This is about autonomy for the people to make their own decisions, not being used as a football, or a pawn in the arrogant Wa-Zo-Bia contraption called Nigeria.

Enugu that cannot even treat Owerri with fairness and without squabbling. . . . . do you believe they treated minorities fairly and without squabbling?

I have told the story on Nairaland how my grandmothers brother founded what is now the Rivers State College of Arts and Crafts. He put an Igbo man called Mr Mbonu on the board of directors, and built the school in virgin land. When the papers went to Enugu for the naming of the street where the college was situated, they named the street Mbonu Street after the Igbo man who was only on the board of directors! Mbonu Street is in present day D-line.

Even worse is that my grandmothers brother, the Amanyanabo of Okrika, was not recognised by Enugu, but a nonentity was, just because his name is Igbo. Is this fair? I stress that my Grandmothers brother was the Amanyanabo because that only highlights the stripping away of Ijaw autonomy by Enugu. In the past, this man would never have to seek ratification from anyone, but because the British have landed in Nigeria, he must now subjugate himself to a beaurocrat in a far-away land who he would never have crossed path with prior to 1954. The irony of the matter is that he was the son of an Igbo migrant who rose to become the King of Okrika despite his Igbo blood, yet an Igbo technocrat discriminated against him because he is Ijaw!

This story is replicated all over the period from 1954 up till 1967 when the Eastern Region ceased to exist.

Yeah, we all know about the benevolence of our Enugu benefactors whom we were dependent on! What a bloody cheek!

It should be apparent by now that all Imperialistic structures in Nigeria will not succeed, whether the perpetrators or victims are Hausa, Ijaw, Igbo, Yoruba or Ogoni. Even the Ogonis complained of "Ijaw dominance" when they were placed in Rivers State with the Ijaw; and I for one will not argue against their point because by very nature, all Nigerian tribes look out for themselves first. This is why I have always advocated that power is devolved down to each individual people as much as possible; and henceforth people should stop defending the indefensible out of sheer tribal affiliation.

naijaking1:
@tpia
Thanks for the reference
@Ibime
Please post some reliable, authentic reference one could rely upon to substantiate your theory(story)

What, you dont believe that Ijaw has never belonged to any extra-terrestrial Kingdom?

Tpia read some quack scholar who told her that:


[quote author=tpia. link=topic=302497.msg4279941#msg4279941 date=1249071447]The Calabar Kingdom comprised of loosely governed states that included: Annang, Akamkpa, Efik, Eket, Ibibio, Ikom, Ogoja, Opobo (now Ikot Abasi), Oron, Western Cameroon, and the offshore island of Fernando Po (now Equatorial Guinea). Calabar served as the capital city for the Kingdom as well as for the Efik State.[/quote]The quack historian must have his chronology in reverse because the Ikot Abasi referred belong[b]ed[/b] to the Calabar Kingdom till Jaja chased em away and named it Opobo after which he proceeded to subjugate every tribe along the Imo River and was known to launch several attacks on the Efik at Calabar itself. Now Ikot Abasi has 2 parts, one part is Opobo and the other part is the mainland. The mainland is still Efik territory, but the Island was forcefully taken by Jaja. No Ijaw tribe has ever fallen under the Calabar Kingdom, simple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opobo

[quote author=tpia. link=topic=302497.msg4279941#msg4279941 date=1249071447]misrepresentation. At most, the Benin influence is the only logical differential.

facts:

Andoni people are Ijoid

Ijaws relocated from Old Calabar (founded by them) to New Calabar

Bonny: capital of an ancient Ijaw kingdom

Opobo: founded by Jaja after leaving Bonny due to some differences

Infighting between Bonny and Andoni over control of the slave trade and access to waterways.


So parts of Ijoids were in Calabar kingdom. Most of the rest formed a confederation of Ijaws native to the central Niger delta, with Ijaws from the eastern part forming the Kingdom of Bonny.

feel free to correct part of this analysis you consider wrong.[/quote]Someones been reading too many books. . . . 

The Niger-Delta is untamable and has never been tamed due to the topology of the area and the fact that when tribes were attacked, they simply entered their canoes and moved to the next island.

Kalabaris used to live in Calabar. They were attacked by the Efiks and they ran away to Rivers State.

Andonis used to be part of Bonny, they then moved up the coast and chased away the Efiks who used to live in present-day Andoni

Ijaws were always persecuted in Benin and Warri, so they ran East to present-day Rivers State. All the Ijaws in present day Rivers State can trace their ancestry to Benin or Warri. Infact Warri means "my fathers house" in my language.

One Ijaw kingdom (Bonny) did subjugate other Ijaw kingdoms, but Ijawland has never been in another Kingdom. If fight starts, Ijaws will either fight-back or runaway to any of the plentiful islands in the Niger-Delta, but would never submit themselves to non-Oru people, therefore it was impossible for them to belong to any local empire except the British.

1 - Who was the first African to win a Premier League medal?
Bruce Grobelaar (before Prem). Kanu (after prem)

2 - Which African country was Patrick Vieira born in?
Senegal


3 - From who did Liverpool sign El-Hadji Diouf?
Lens


4 - Which midfielder, who would later go on to play for two Premier League clubs, scored in Senegal's 1-0 win over France in the 2002 World Cup?
The wardrobe, Papa Bouba Diop


5 - Which African spent a time on trial at Manchester United, but was apparently turned away after a misunderstanding over some kit, only to move to the Premier League for an awful lot of money a few years later?
Michael Essien is a thief.


6 - Peter Ndlovu played for four clubs in England - name them.
Birmingham and Coventry, cant remember the others.


7 - Lucas Radebe was apparently only signed by Leeds to help which player settle in?
I guess Yeboah


8 - Tony Yeboah represented which country?
Black Stars


9 - Which African player once said in answer to the question 'What would you be doing if you weren't a footballer?', "Nothing. My family is very rich"?
Mikel?


10 - Former African footballer of the year Patrick Mboma had a brief spell at which English club?
Cant remember, but I remember that he flopped.


11 - What is Jay Jay Okocha's real first name?
Augustine


12 - Mustapha Hadji signed for Coventry in 1999, but what was the name of his Moroccan compatriot who joined him?
Chippo


13 - Which Nigerian scored twice for Everton in the 1995 FA Cup semi-final against Spurs?
The Bull


14 - Which manager - currently in charge of a Premier League club - brought George Weah to Europe?
The Viewer


15 - Fredi Kanoute was born in France, but which international team does he play for?
Mali


16 - Which player admitted to being 'sick to his stomach' when he signed for his current English club?
Drogba, the little bitch.


17 - Name the Nigerian Champions League winner who played for Ipswich for two seasons.
Finidiblow


18 - Match the player to the clubs: Orlando Pirates (South African side), Bolton, Charlton and Ipswich (on loan).
Mark Fish


19 - Which player went to court to try and gain Dutch citizenship - and therefore the chance to play for Holland - before failing and moving to England in 2006?
Salomon 'kay-leg' Kalou


20 - Excluding Seyi Olofinjana (who may have left by the time you read this), Stoke have five Africans on their books - name them.
Amdy Faye, Abdoulaye Faye, Sidibe, Diao, Sonko

Ijawland has never been part of Calabar Kingdom, or anyones Kingdom for that matter. . . . at least not until 1914.

Na So made very good points. There is nothing to add to it.

jalether:
I can take any goal.com news with a grain of salt, OSN why would chelsea wanna sign pirlo really, who is he gonna bench

lampard, essien, Mikel

This is from Corriere dello Sport.

[quote author=Abu-Maryam link=topic=303617.msg4277964#msg4277964 date=1249049236]@ poster
Probing became imperative, he was arrested b4 gunning him down by the anger policemen. If not, why Ojukwu and Mend should be given amnesty?? He committed thesame crime with them.[/quote]Yeha. . . . we are waiting for Yar'Adua to tot this same line 100 days from now when the amnesty expires, giving JTF excuse to mow down any Naija-Deltan in sight, but unfortunately the Nigerian press wont buy this line, neither will Southern Nigerians.

4 Play:
Without injecting race into it, it's a question of consitutional rights as to whether a person should be arrested in his own home for ''disorderly conduct''.

I think you hit the nail on the head hombre. . . . if I wanna be naked in my house all day, picking boogers out my nose and standing on my head, whilst telling the police to shove it, I doubt I should be arrested for disorderly conduct.

This is one irritating rumour that just wont go away. . .



Report: Chelsea Target Andrea Pirlo Hints At Milan Exit

The Italy midfielder has allegedly told his colleagues at Inter that last Sunday’s derby was his last in a Rossoneri shirt.

Milan fans are bracing themselves for another high-profile defection as Andrea Pirlo looks set to reunite with Carlo Ancelotti at Chelsea.

The former Diavoli boss has made no secret of his desire to lure Pirlo to Stamford Bridge and the Corriere dello Sport today claims that the 30-year-old said his goodbyes to his friends and colleagues at Inter after last Sunday’s Derby della Madonnina clash in Boston.

“This was my last derby game,” he reportedly said.

Press reports suggest that the Premier League giants have seen a €14.5 million bid, which also included the services of Claudio Pizarro and the loan of Michael Mancienne, rejected earlier this week.

But there is room to negotiate and discussions between the parties are expected to continue in the coming days.

Pirlo is tied to the San Siro outfit until June 2011 on wages of €5m-a-year, but he has allegedly been offered a four-year deal by Chelsea worth €6.5m-per-season.

Milan have already parted with Brazilian superstar Kaka this summer - the 27-year-old joined Spanish powerhouse Real Madrid in a €67.5m deal.

Vince Masiello, Goal.com