₦airaland Forum

Seun:
These is probably propaganda written by US gov to pressure Nigeria to accept their military intervention, but I think they have some points.

Relations between the Nigerian and US militaries have been strained with Nigeria cancelling training by US advisers of a unit that was supposed to fight the militants, who have captured towns and villages in the country’s northeast and vowed to create a hardline Islamic state.

Last week, in the face of demands that the world respond to the slaughter of civilians by Boko Haram the way it did after the killings of police and journalists at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo by jihadist extremists, Nigeria again rejected both UN and African Union intervention. It said West Africans can deal with Boko Haram, though the militants have continued killing with impunity.

The conflict has left more than 13,000 people dead and one million homeless. General David Rodriguez, head of US Africa Command, said the Islamists’ gains on the battlefield are cause for concern and “the number of people displaced is just staggering.” Rodriguez said the Nigerian military’s response “was not working very effectively and actually in some places made it worse.” He added: “I hope that they let us help more and more.”

Nigeria has the largest army in west Africa but has come under criticism at home and abroad for failing to stop the advance of Boko Haram. But does Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan know something the rest of us don’t? It seems, yes.

There is a popular view that unrest in the northeast improves the chances of Jonathan’s re-election. It is not unjustified.

As an insightful Brookings Institution paper by Jideofor Adibe noted: “The emergence of a viable opposition coincides with a period of great tension between north and south, arising from the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2011 elections at the head of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), a decision that has made many northerners feel cheated of their turn in producing the president and that induced some violence”.

The result of that election, as a stunning map of the outcome by Brookings shows, is that Jonathan didn’t win a plurality of the vote in any of the northern states, effectively cutting the country into two. Now with former general and president Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim and northerner, in the race at the head of a surging opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) ticket, and the grievance over insecurity, Jonathan is all definitely set to do even worse in the north. A recent Buhari rally in Kano in the north that can only be described as mammoth, is said to have spooked the Jonathan camp further.

The people in the northeast who are now not going to vote because of the insurgency, are therefore effectively votes for Jonathan.

However, Nigeria also today also displays a common problem in Africa. When a country is large - as DR Congo for example is - and insurgencies happen far away from the capital and commercial nerve centres (in Nigeria’s case Abuja and Lagos respectively), it can afford to ignore it. At 923,768 square kilometres (356,669 square miles), Nigeria’s is the 14th largest African country.

Thirdly, though, Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation, with nearly 180 million. I can shrug off Boko Haram killing 13,000 and displacing one million, in ways that small Sierra Leone with 6 million people and Liberia with 4 million couldn’t during their civil wars.

Thus the answer to what seems like the nonchalance of Abuja toward Boko Haram’s mayhem is an uncomfortable one - it can afford to, and its clever though deadly cynical electoral politics for Jonathan.

enm:
Prayer points for today programme is copied from one of the mfm Facebook page.

1. Sing this song: God will make a way where
there seems to be no way ….

My inner man,
receive fire, become fire in the name of
Jesus.

2. Father, throw your atomic bomb into the
camp of the enemy & destroy them in the
name of Jesus.

3. Evil Reinforcement delaying the
manifestation of God's blessings in my life,
die in the name of Jesus.

4. Blood of Jesus, revoke all evil decrees and
verdicts made against me & my family, in the
name of Jesus and me.

5. Blood of Jesus, cancel the maturity date of
every physical and spiritual arrow fired at me
through dreams, in the name of Jesus.

6. Anything buried to bury me, be cancelled
by the Blood of Jesus, in the name of Jesus.

7. You the spirit of rejection and hatred
programmed into my genes/my blood, my
children, come out & die in the name of Jesus
Christ.

8. Evil altar & the priest ministering at the evil
altar, scatter and die in the name of Jesus
Christ.

9. Where is the Lord God of Elijah? Arise and
destroy every voice of darkness speaking
louder than the voice of breakthrough in my
Life, in the name of Jesus Christ.

10. Problem expanders, Profitless hard work,
Poverty, my life is not your candidates,
Somersault and die in the name of Jesus
Christ.

wirinet:
When National SECURITY adviser is more concerned about indecency sites and election postponements than Boko Haram, when the army finds it more important to call a press conference on Buhari's certificate than Boko Haram, then we are in serious trouble.

donmalcolm21:
Tinubu should shut up and rather explain to us how come Amaechi was sidelined for Osibanjo after spending 17billion naira on APC

laBarca:
Just as the name Buhari is giving PDP Headache at the National level, just as the name Tinubu is giving PDP serious sleepless night in Southern region level, the name Amaechi is creating problems within PDP in Rivers State chapter.

laBarca:
See how brother betray brother? I won't say anything on the issue for reason best known to me. But ...

Iroh88:
The officer was rather too uncouth if you ask me. That is like profiling.

raumdeuter:
How pathetic!! So an adult and a potential grandfather like GEJ has to blame his incompetence of some random Yoruba and Hausa. Then I think the problem is deeper than words can describe

OBJ Arisekola and all those Yorubas you mentioned are never celebrated anywhere. OBJ lost his ward in 1999. OBJ's daughter could not win her ward in 2011 Senate race.

Arisekola was attacked everywhere he went in Yoruba land. Ebenezer Babatope became an outcast for aligning with Abacha.

WHat about from your side where all these sort of characters are celebrated. From Chukwumerije the spokesman of IBB, Ofonagoro the spokesman of Abacha, Daniel Kanu of Youth Earrnestly ask for abacha, to Arthur Nzeribe of ABN, to Ifeanyi uba of TAN

In every campaign against tyranny we know those at the forefront, From the way NADECO fought IBB and Abacha, to the way Gani Fawehinmi, Falana and Soyinka fought OBJ , Tunde Bakare and Soyinka against the cabal.

Now tell us something

FolarinToks:
Having read what was written by one stupid pinhead from the land of apes, I now agreed with every other Nigerians that you guys(Ibos) are nothing but fools. You and your brothers are the most foolish humans on earth. You guys are just pathetic and let me say this here, we-Yorubas can't wait for you parasites to leave Odua nation and Nigeria as whole. What are you(chest-beater) waiting for, start a war if you are really serious about gaining independence.

Aguiyi Ironsi is a Yoruba man i presumed, Nnamdi Azikiwe is an Hausa man and of course all the Ibo Politicians-Okadigbo, Wabara, Ekwueme, Ojukwu, Nnamani are aliens in Nigeria politics. And being aliens in Nigeria politics, nobody can hold them responsible for the failure of d past governments in which these guys are part of. Yeye dey smell!!!

Yoruba man (Yorubas didn't even vote for Obasanjo) was only a president for 8years(exluding his military presidency) in the whole history of this great country. And your brothers and sisters are more favoured in Obasanjo government than his brothers and sisters from south west. Soludo, Wabara, Okadigbo, Nnamani, Nzeribe, Ngozi Iwealla, Ezekwesili, Okereke-stock exchange, Dora akunyili were all part of that government you claimed to have failed, tagging/calling that government a failure simply cos the president was a Yoruba man but forgetting that your brothers and sisters are active part of that failed government. However, that failed government is better than your brother Jonathan government in every ways.

Listen, let me bring the collective failure of your brothers and sisters to your notice in case u r not aware of it; to let you know how useless your brothers and sisters in government are, 70% of active actors in Jonathan government are from the east and the result of their collective failure is staring at all Nigerians today. The first government that is being run completely by your brothers and sisters turn out to be the most useless, corrupt, inept, blundering and unproductive government in the history of this country Mofo.

Finally, if your brothers and sisters from your Landlocked are not part of Nigeria problem as you and your likes are trying/tried hard to make us to believe, how come your Landlocked remain undeveloped and unhabitable? why do your brothers and sisters run to better regions-west and north in millions in search of a better life that eludes them in your so called Alaigbo? how come your governors are not being held responsible for your poverty stricken states?

huptin:
You see your biggest problem is blaming everybody for your woes, if you desire those things nobody cann stop you from getting them, in this life nobody gives u anything on a platter of gold, you fight for it, you can sit down and blame yorubas, americans, Hausa etc for all you can, you wont still get it.

when June 12 was annulled, did the yorubas ask anybody for help? Or blamed anybody? No they learnt to fight for themselves, yes you can call them noise makers, but they made such loud noise that the world was forced to listen and they were compensated, when fuel subsidy was removed the same thing.

You guys claim you are the best in everything, go ahead and get what you want stop blaming other people for your woes.

its not for nothing that 99% of the FDI into the country last year came into the southwest, according to your president only Lagos and Ogun state alone accounts for 55% of Nigeria's economy activities, yet in your bigoted minds the yorubas are bad people destroying everything if they have destroyed everything why not simply go and reestablish then in your region and prove to the whole world how wonderful you are in resource management.

TippyTop:
This is why apc drove out femi fani kayode, you should not be seen near a church if you are apc, only mosque...mtcheeew.

customized13:
thank your stars.