₦airaland Forum

israel007: Yea NAIA, Abuja is really clean. Whoever says GEJ hasn't worked or isn't working should be subject to psychiatric evaluation.


GEJ 2015.

Let the good work speak!

Op keep it coming. I owe you a plate of beer and a bottle of isi-ewu

airport is for the elites in our society,what has he done for the poor??

ayobase: They have been talking to us codedly, but we are so stupid or stiffnecked to yield. Now, they have said it bluntly after pushing them to the wall.

Nigeria o ni baje o!

This talk na insult sha!

go and develope your country

[quote author=P.Stacks]What!!! .. !!!
Are you For real?

Gotdanm it mehn!

This Embarrasment is getting too much ooo.


First UK Govt imposed 3,000 Pounds Visa Bonds on Nigerians seeking UK visa's, now they have kuku come out straight to advice we remain in our country, they don't want us.. O ti tan bai.. O pari! What more..

Let them kuku withdraw all the British Airways Airlines and Virgin Atlantic Airlines and any Heatrow airport bound Flight..

Guuush mehn! if it has gotten to the level they advice us not to come to their country and even impose a visa bond, they it speaks volume of our society..

Nigerians must wake up and read the writtings on the wall.[/quote]just go and visite nigerians and africans in uk,you will understand this article

Lanrefahm: We are going to flood ur country with our youths den colonized u as u colonized us (not in a million years with that work just kidding). Buh u people are d 1 causing it since u dont want are country to grow we will go to urs dat ve already grow, is just like d saying if d tree did not go and meet adam adam will meet d tree

gullible naija mentality,acept the defeat,that our fathers were just seriously having many wifes and children,with out any foundation for them.

priscaoge: If it's here in Nigeria he will choose to βε a begger,not only a begger but a deadly and dangerous one. In every disability,there must βε an ability. Lucky U̶̲̥̅̊ Dude!!!

in a country were their leaders are not wicked,and their followers are not mumus

[quote author=P.Stacks]Motorsport is about my best sport ever.. Its only for the super wealthy people from continental Europe and Elite Americans... Someday I dreams of Driving For Mc Laren or Red Bull. That Sebastien Vettle Guy trips me like crazy! When that guy takes off, Alonso never see's his break light. I loved the Micheal Schumaker Era but Time happens to everything. His time is gone and Red Bull got the Torch now..

I love this guys story of finding Ability in Dis-ability.. When life deals you Lemons, instead of complain, you can make Lemonades out of Lemons...

There is Always Ability in Dis-ability.
There is always Possibility in impossibility.



Just Believe in yourself and that's it.[/quote]all you have said is very good in the western world,my friend naija wicked die,the leaders are bad, but the followers!!!!no let me open my mouth

seedord247: This is just to show you that its not by Power but by his Grace.

when you have a bad system, even with his grace you are dead if you are disable.that is why you see our disable people in naija suffering,the system is meant only to steal

nigerians the most religous people on earth,but satan is better than us,wicked country.untill we change our atitude towards money and material things,untill we start valueing every living humanbeing in our country irrespective of his/her, tribe, economical situation,that country will always be like that.

stagger: Very easy to catch this fellow.

a) Any security cameras? If no, did someone make a note of the number plate?
b) If yes, then the individual can be traced.

nigeria is a country were 1 plate number belong to 5people.
camera??if still working in some areas in lagos or abuja.
no database system very difficult to solve simple crimes

Nigeria’s younger generation may not know who the man, Alhaji Umaru Dikko is. Therefore, asking if they know what he represents (or at least used to represent) is superfluous. That is the tragedy of a nation whose many pupils do not know who the great sage, the late Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo was. A report, a few years back, indicated that right in Chief Awolowo’s hometown, Ikenne, in Ogun State, the only Obafemi that pupils in a school know is Obafemi Martins! They claimed not to have heard anything about Chief Awolowo. But that is Nigeria’s dysfunctional educational system for you; it is that bad. “A prophet”, they say, “is not without honour but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house”.

Anyway, this write-up is not about Chief Awolowo; it is about Alhaji Dikko, who came into prominence in the Second Republic during the tenure of President Shehu Shagari, his brother-in-law. Ordinarily, many of us had since forgotten about Alhaji Dikko and would have preferred never to be reminded of that dark era that the man represented, but for reports last week to the effect that the 77 year-old man of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) infamy has been exhumed from wherever he has been hibernating all these years, to head the ruling Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) national disciplinary committee! Did I hear you say ‘disciplinary committee’? Yes, you heard me right; disciplinary committee. Other members of the seven- member committee are; Obanema of Opume Kingdom, Bayelsa State and King A.J Turner as deputy chairman, publisher of Champion Newspaper and member, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the PDP, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, former deputy national chairman and BoT member, Alhaji Shuaibu Oyedokun, Hajiya Nana Aishat Kadiri, Barrister Hussaini Diraki and Senator Emmanuel Agboti.

Those conversant with the story of Alhaji Dikko that we knew would readily say that with a man like him heading the ruling party’s disciplinary committee, then, the result is known even before the committee begins sitting. Unless of course the things the man used to do, he does them no more. I mean unless he has turned a new leaf, as they say.

Just last week, I said something about the dearth of good people in the country. Well, some people will disagree with me and rather say that it is the failure of those in positions of authority to search for such people, or the reluctance of good people to make themselves available for public service because of the quality of people at the very top. What else could have made five governors run to Generals Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, in search of solutions to democratic challenges if not for any of these aforementioned reasons? What our people versed in Pidgin English would dismiss simply as no more person. What I am saying is that there must be a dearth of people to enforce discipline in the ruling party for the mantle of chairman of a crucial committee as the disciplinary committee to fall on Alhaji Dikko. At least not the Alhaji Dikko that we knew.

It is sad that the Jonathan government, apart from doing business as usual, is also suffocating us with the same spent forces that have had their time in leadership positions but made a mess of it. Alhaji Dikko belonged in that school.

His role in governance in the country dates back to 1967 when he was appointed commissioner in the then North Central State (now Kaduna State). He was later to be secretary of a committee set up by General Hassan Katsina to unite the northerners after a coup in 1966. In 1979, Alhaji Dikko was made Alhaji Shehu Shagari’s campaign manager for the NPN. He was Minister of Transport from 1979-1983; a position he held simultaneously with that of the head of the presidential task force on rice. Interestingly, it was in the latter, rather than the former, that he became a national issue. That rice had to attract presidential attention in that republic showed how terribly bad the country was run because the rice that Alhaji Dikko headed its task force was imported. Again, that is a matter for another day.

Such was the diligence with which he served Nigeria then that General Muhammadu Buhari who became head of state after overthrowing the Shagari government on December 31, 1983, issued a list of former government officials accused of a variety of crimes on his second day in power. Alhaji Dikko, who topped the list, was accused of embezzling several million dollars in oil profits from the national treasury. Despite strenuous efforts to locate him, he simply vanished, leaving no trace of his whereabouts. He was eventually trailed to the United Kingdom where the Buhari government attempted to bring him back home in a crate with 1.2 x 1.2 x 1.5 meters dimension, in what was famously referred to as the ‘Dikko affair’. Thank God the mission failed; otherwise, Alhaji Dikko would have been brought back to Nigeria in a crate like some imported cargo! One had to go this far for our ill-fated younger generation to know that their beloved country has not just started to wobble and fumble; it has been like that for decades. The sad thing is that while many fellow backbenchers like us are finding their way out of the woods, we are getting more and more entrenched in it. Anyhow, fellow Nigerians, this is the man that our ruling party has thrust forward as chair of its national disciplinary committee!

Without doubt, the PDP as it is is highly undisciplined. It therefore needs someone, a strict disciplinarian to knock some discipline into its members’ skulls. But one wonders where to start the discipline from, or what form of discipline the party is thinking of, especially when one considers the action of some of its leading lights, including President Goodluck Jonathan. Or, how else do you capture a president who hosted as winner, someone who lost an election conducted among only 35 people? How many good persons would want to serve in a government in which such illegality thrives? Maybe it is only the PDP that understands its concept of discipline that it wants instilled into its members, because there is discipline and there is discipline. The NPN that Alhaji Dikko was a prominent member of was everything but disciplined. A party that is disciplined would not claim to have landslide victory in an election which was visible even to the blind that it lost. Little wonder that the Shagari government’s ‘landslide’ victory eventually became what someone referrred to as ‘gunslide’, to the delight of millions of Nigerians who had watched with disbelief as the then NPN stole votes in broad daylight, the same way the PDP has done in some places.

The multi-million naira question now is: can Alhaji Umaru Dikko give what he does not have? Unless the aphorism that one cannot give what one does not have is about to be proved wrong, or unless the kind of discipline the PDP envisages is the one associated with the NPN (for which the present ruling party itself has become notorious), then, the ruling party may be on the way to defining discipline in its own image, a thing that eventually led to the collapse of our inglorious Second Republic and ultimately, the ‘Dikko Affair’.

All said, for good or for ill, my dear reader, join me in congratulating Alhaji Dikko over his new appointment and at the same time welcome him, once again, to national limelight, after many years in the cooler. I wish him and their PDP whatever they wish themselves.

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/from-the-dikko-affair-to-the-dikko-committee/

Indifferent: Rochas is a disappointment

why?? im in owerri now

otondo55: ....a welcome development for the entire Igbo nation.
Soludo solution remains the best !
Congratulation in advance ! Lets move East to the next level.

if soludo is our messiah,then anambra is in trouble

billante: Nigeria is making progress, no matter what the enemies make us think!

First it was APC finally being registered and now soludo officially going for the governorship race under APGA!

GEJ is no tyrant, he allows a level playing open field for politics, kudos to him.

anambra not gej,gej is 2015

datChelseaBoy: Soludo all the way. He's my number one candidate. Ngige should go away with his ACN and stick to the senate. There is no way Ngige will win with ACN going by the faeces Fashola and co rubbed on our faces by abducting Igbos in Lagos, detaining them for days as if they have committed felony and bundling them like stock fish to Anambra state. Soludo all the way! He is willful, intelligent and principled. He will attract a lot of international projects to Anambra state with his status.

S O L U D O 2013!

so ngige should carry the blame of lagos state??nigeria go better

slap1: The people of Anambra should give a proven intellectual the chance to lead them. I'm from Imo State, but I go with Soludo! Anambra ga adi ka Dubai!

tell us his legacy

oxford: This pictures have been circulating since 4 years ago. Amaechi no dey do new things? Whats he using his second tenure for?

This is a cheap strategy. Spend billions to build primary school, circulate the pictures and look like a performing gov. Thereafter, just dey chop money and dey circulate same old pictures.

Please, ask Amaechi what has he done with subsidy reinvestment accruing to his state?

smart man

jmoore: I have a case study. This boy is the bad apple in the family, he even fights with his own father and insults him publicly. His siblings are good.
Some parents try to raise their kids the right way but some kids end up choosing a bad lifestyle.
How can a son threaten to kill his own father. And you think the father will stand and watch?

any day my son do that. he is dead, sorry i will not take that from my children ,

payless: Regardless of what both groups fight for, they use violence as the only way to express their grievances against government. Any group that terrorises, kill or maim people must be regarded as terrorists.

thats true but they are not thesame,the ideas behind this two groups are diferent

payless: There was a report yesterday of MEND strapping explosives to oil tankers leaving NNPC depot to deliver petroleum products to petrol stations around the country. In this report, MEND issued threat to all oil tanker drivers to stay away from driving tankers because they have begun strap explosives to oil tankers. Their motive is to bring government to its knees by creating chaos. Any organization that unlawfully carry arms and use violence the same way Boko Haramists and MEND do must be regarded as terrorist groups. Their intention is to kill and maim innocent men, women, and children in order for them to cause panic in our society.

Why most people from SS/SE see MEND as "freedom fighters" and not terrorist group as Boko Haram? Who in their right mind believe in the bombing as a way to seek attention from government?


https://www.nairaland.com/1326039/mend-attacked-petrol-tankers-abuja-nnpc

there is a diference between fighting for religious ideology and fighting for justice,all though it looks the same but they are not,sheet and mess no bi thesame,despite the two dey smell

druid06: Nigerians with our nonchalant attitude of leaving every problem to GOD or a supreme being to solve our problems. GOD won't come down from heaven to fight our battles, we need to end this incessant corruption evading this country and eating through us like a cancerous virus. We need to take matters into our hands and bring the yardstick between the rich and the poor closer. The bitter truth is that without a revolution and an uprising, we're forever going to remain the way we are even worse in the proceeding years to come. We should learn from great contries before us like the U.S with their civil war, France with their revolution. Food for thoughts

who will bell the cat?

Diasporan: Quickly withdraw the bolded statement above before Amadioha shave off your head.What an insult?Nasty stereotypic slowpoke.Irrespective of the Militancy in the region we the people of the Niger Delta are hard working people and if a few take up arms to fight for their right that does not make the people lazy in anyway.I believe your people will do worse if they were to be in our position.Nonsense

the real ss people are hard working people,but some people who call them selves the co-ordinators of the militancy are the beneficiaries of the true strugle of the ss people,the real ss man has never benefited anything

ziccoit: How could some people liked this post baffled me. What makes the Niger Deltans superior to other Nigerians so that they don't have to work?

this is the problem i have with some of my ss brothers,laziness as a way of live.,they don´t need infrastructure , education or healthcare,give them hand out to eat thats all

Billyonaire: The number of 'likes' speaks greatly of the factual basis of the truth. Democracy is a game of number. So, you need to understand that you are alone in your parochial wisdom.

as usual defend corrupt people,because of ethnic sentimens

Billyonaire: Nairalanders and beef. Are Niger Deltans supposed to work in reality ? Listen, Niger Deltans are not supposed to work a day in their lives. How hard do Qatar citizens work ? How hard do Kuwaitis work ? Congrats to Asari.

the countries you mention have atleast basic amenities,what do you have in nigeria

i need somebody to give me rochas contact,im from imo state and have some important things for him

3ace: Seriously too, what came to my mind when I first saw the caption was that she must have done something bad to him necessitating him to vent his anger on her. But after seeing those bruises on her face. Omo I just weak o. Tade haba, there are more matured ways of punishing a wife. Abi you bi agbero ni?

please just tell one mature way of punishing a woman

eazzzy1: i totally condemn the act of wife beating, and i know its very shameful, but the question should be asked what did she do to him?

very stupid question,if it was sister

Billyonaire: There are almost 200 private jets flying our skies. This is not Europe, we cant fail. We are the next frontier after China. I am already working on the 3D Printing model that will place Nigeria above her contemporaries within 5 Years. Electricity is all we need and not pessimism. If you think am lying, Ask Aliko Dangote.

i did´t know you will come as low as this.

thelastPope: This is junk journalism at its best. I just stopped reading at the point where it said the oil production was at its lowest ever, even lower than at the peak of militancy and he quoted a figure of 1.3 million barrels per day. Lol. At the peak of militancy, Nigeria was producing 700, 000 barrels per day. That completely gave them up as shameless liars that cooked up their news from their azz! This is a totally false and bizzaire story. This is not the way to do opposition but it the sad story of Nigeria. A country with an opposition that wants the country to go down so they can rise to power and they will kill, maim, distort, concort lies and propaganda to achieve their aim.

They are even paying a band of hungry folks online to push their cause. Sad!

tellme the state of nigerian economy,from gdp growth to human capital growth and infrastructural development

Inik: President Jonathan is just stating the obvious. Nigerians lost confidence in the Nigerian police years ago

and is 2years not not enough to reform the police?