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literarymathy:Hate Beget Hate! |
Yorubas excessive obsession with everything Igbo will kill that tribe. As for you Op, hustle well make some money and look for a lovely Igbo woman to love very well and see if she would let you marry her. That way you would have saved yourself from losing your head over this much love you have for us. On behalf of all Igbos, I want to tell you that you're loved. |
Freemanan:Yeah! I have indulged the rantings of the Sobos on nairaland, but they took it for granted! Butting-in on matters not anywhere close to their little abode in delta state. Now I am out to search for them wherever I might find them, bringing the fights right to their doors. It is my duty to put cockroaches where they rightly belong until they learn that though butterflies might fly, but to think itself a Bird is an assault on the integrity of the gods. |
I hope the Yorubas can now stop their daily e-attack on Igbos, having now learn that IFE actually belong to Ndigbo but was stolen from them by these vicious yorubas! But then again, they will not like this news, now that they have all discovered how they usurped the place of the Igbos in the heart of IFE. Now to cover up their shameful act, they would even increase their e-attack on innocent Igbos. Bad people, this yorubas, claiming people's places since Obatala. God don catch them today. Abeg make una give Igbos back their land for IFE and go take back your kwara from the HausaFulanis |
PentiumPro:You're certainly a falamous! So pathetic. Read your comment & look at yourself in the miRror. Gutter Girl. |
aresa:You're very bitter, why? Have you been disappointed by the vicissitudes of life? Don't give up, God will come to your aid one day! |
tonychristopher:Leave them, let them be claiming another man's land. Funny little beings. |
Freemanan:On the contrary, I do. So bring your whole crew! |
Like I said earlier US have reasons for Instaling APc |
BeeBeeOoh:Your matter tire me o! |
Thread Strictly For Those With Higher Understanding. No Insult Intended. |
Ahead of the inauguration of the president-elect, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and human rights activist, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, looks at issues in the polity which, according to him, border on national order, constitutional reform, devolution of powers, anti-corruption, diversification of the economy, driving new public revenue, maritime, space and aviation. Agbakoba, however, says the litmus test for the president-elect concerns the political will to deal with salaries paid to federal lawmakers as well as the huge budgetary allocation to the Presidential Villa. Excerpts: The elections have been lost and won, and the transition into a new government is only weeks ahead. What’s your critical assessment of the Nigerian state towards a New Deal which you spoke about in your recent letter to the president-elect, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari? One thing we must understand is that Nigeria’s problem is not its economic resources or its finances, but its lack of peace. This lack of peace has a history in the shape of three political constitutions we have operated. The colonial constitution, which was not in the interest of Nigeria; the civil constitution, which lasted between 1960 and 1966 and didn’t serve the interest of Nigerians; and the military constitutions designed to empower the various heads of state but didn’t have the interest of Nigerians at heart. The makers of the constitutions were ruling for the sake of themselves and their constituencies. Therefore, there wasn’t any peace and that was why the pro-democracy movement rose to challenge and confronted them. Then, we had the Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan’s attempts to find peace in Nigeria. The National Conferences we have had were about peace and stability in Nigeria. That is why the biggest power the President enjoys is the power given by Section 5 to order the state of things in Nigeria, for the peace, order and good governance of the country. But, unfortunately, the National Conference process starting from Obasanjo, who had a third term agenda, was not genuine and the Jonathan process, which I was a party to, is incomplete. As I speak, we don’t have political compass for Nigeria. So, we are a mass of people with various cleavages and fault lines – religious, ethnic, linguistic – roaming in the vast territorial space called Nigeria, which Chief Obafemi Awolowo referred to as a geographical expression. We have not condescended Nigeria into a national spirit which we can say for the love of country. Unless, this is tackled, we are heading nowhere yet. This is why I have written the president-elect to be aware of the booby-traps. He has a historic moment to deal with lack of constitutional order. This is the major issue that Buhari must resolve. Once you are building a house and your architect gives you a design, building becomes easier. At the moment, Nigeria lacks the constitutional architecture that can drive the release of economic energy. If we don’t do this, we can’t go anywhere. Corruption, second most important issue The second most important issue Buhari must pay attention to is corruption. All governments of Nigeria have paid lip-service to the issue of corruption. Buhari has now presented himself as a person and he has gotten a groundswell of support from Nigerians across the divides to tackle corruption. So, he has to be held to account for all the political promises he made. He should deal with the unconstitutional salaries of the National Assembly members. The Revenue Fiscal Mobilization and Allocation Commission (RFMAC) sets salaries, but the National Assembly refused to follow it. The money Nigerian lawmakers get constitutes about 25 percent of our national budget. Why won’t Nigerians want to go to the National Assembly if, as a member of the House of Representatives, I can get about N600 million, on the average, in a year? The lawmakers in the Senate get as much as N1 billion per annum; that’s why they kill themselves to go there. So, the lawmaker’s interest is not to go and make or pass laws, but because of the money that is there. That is also why they perform below average. I see this development as a corrupt practice and that is another most important thing Buhari must confront. The National Assembly must be brought to book. They must be made to conform with the constitution. It’s a big shame that the lawmakers are the ones that break the constitution and pay themselves the stupendous salaries they take home. I put this as a litmus test to Buhari. If he is able to tackle this issue of bringing the National Assembly within the lawful pay structure of Nigeria, I will clap for him. Then, of course, the profligate lifestyle of the average Nigerian politician has to go. Ten aircraft in the presidential fleet, when we have no national carrier? The government has a security vote as high as N2 trillion, which is almost half of our entire national budget. So, we see that this situation has contributed to the need for politicians to fight-to-the-finish for political powers. If as a governor I have N2 billion every month and don’t account to anybody, you can imagine how people will line up to die for that job, not for the love of the country, but for the love of the pocket. So, this is the task for the president-elect. It’s not rocket science. It’s is very easy to achieve this in this country. Again. the Presidential Villa alone spends about N50 billion. Why must everybody who go there be entitled to a meal? All these have to stop. It’s unfortunate that we are practising a culture that doesn’t promote accountability. These are the important things Buhari must do differently, otherwise, it will be the same old story. I think we are tired of election promises, because this time, we have a new President who has come to office on the major campaign slogan of incorruptibility and public accountability. So, it’s our duty as citizens to speak out and for the media to hold him to account. In the first 30 days, we want to see results. Toeing Roosevelt’s line Nigeria reminds me of the great depression in the US, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the President. The country had collapsed and people were despondent. Nigeria has that same parallel. So, what Roosevelt did is what I hope Buhari will do. He should have a massive plan of action which he executes. Having being elected President, he must have come with a clear idea of who and who will assist him develop the plan. I have raised some issues which I feel are relevant for Buhari to address in the letter I wrote him. But if he doesn’t tackle the issue of national order and anti-corruption framework, the other issues such as the economic matters, financial services sector, aviation/space, legal/justice sector and housing/mortgage will fail. Why Nigeria is bleeding For instance, in the financial services sector, it is inconceivable that a person in the UK will not be entitled to a mortgage after employment. Most employees in Nigeria don’t have houses they own. They are tenants, but they have jobs. In the UK, you will be owners of the houses, because the same ability to pay rent applies to the mortgage. So, they leave out the rent and use the mortgage. A lot of what they do abroad is not rocket science, but because they have the legal framework and they have policies that promote the public good, that’s why things are working for them. Now, a bank in Nigeria is not going to give any loan, but they will give the loan to about three to five big men who will trade and give them returns. I challenge a single Nigerian bank to say they are banks in the right sense of the word. They are all money lenders. The duty of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as the financial regulatory authority is to prevent banks from exploiting the system to their own advantage. It has happened in the UK. Their own CBN even punished the Barclays Bank when they cooked their books. Over there, you find out that the regulators are always pushing the banks to the direction of public interest. So, I think Buhari should strongly work on the financial services sector because it’s the oxygen, real blood of the nation’s economy. So, the banking system supplies oxygen to the economy. Anybody who is not concerned about whether the citizens are getting oxygen is not fit to be President. You must be alert to what the banks are doing. The banks are supposed to lend to consumers. If the money is readily available, the people can borrow to meet their needs. This is called consumers banking. But in Nigeria we are operating traders banking, that’s why Nigeria is bleeding. No national carrier, but countless foreign airlines On aviation, I don’t understand why we shouldn’t have a national carrier, but we have foreign airlines dominating our airspace. If you are a true business man, money comes when you have several sources of generating it. I don’t know whether the Nigerian policies makers understand that money can’t only come from oil. Money will come from oil, agriculture, commodities and aviation put together. Nigeria’s entire cash package is too small. It’s only N4 trillion. But in just one sector, the aviation sector, foreign airlines take away a quarter of our budgets. So, you can see how we are suffering. Look at South Africa that is giving us problems today owns MTN. But MTN makes much money in Nigeria than Dangote Group of Companies and all the banks put together. Yet, they have nothing here. How can any serious policy planner allow such a leak, where people are allowed to come into the country, make money and take it away. With this, Nigeria will continue to bleed. So, financial planning requires Gen. Buhari to shed the roots and trees. He has to put Nigeria first. I had expected the Nigerian government to summon the South African ambassador and warn him that their businesses here will suffer if they continue to kill Nigerians in their country. Nigeria is a great country and I had only wished that the incoming President will fulfil his campaign promises. There is no doubt that Nigeria is already witnessing cash-crunch, thus a major challenge for the incoming government. In the light of this enormous challenge, don’t you think the new administration should go after past leaders who have allegedly stolen from the country to recover money that will be used to run the country? It’s going to be a difficult and a complex issue. One, you don’t want to give the impression of a witch-hunt, but at the same time you don’t want to let go of stolen monies. If I were President Buhari, I will adopt the blind-fold of the Justice. If you erect the right institutional framework to fight corruption, it will catch the mice. It will be absolutely credible. But when you make it subjective, saying the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is a catch-cow, let’s go there, it won’t work. Create the structure and let it do its work. Whatever the structure turns-up, don’t interfere. Your job is to create strong police force. Unless Buhari promulgates a process to put in place a new constitution, it will be the same old story. I am looking forward to a situation where if the President errs, he gets a letter from the Attorney-General, who writes him to say Mr. President you have erred. That’s the kind of anti-corruption process I want to see Buhari unfolds. Once you have done that the job is done. So, nobody will accuse him of any personal agenda or witch-hunting. www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/the-booby-traps-before-buhari-olisa-agbakoba/
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In this interview, Mr. John Patrick Egesi, President/Chairman, Nigerian Institute of Shipping and political analyst explains why Igbo’s would always vote in gratitude to those who have been fair to them. Egesi spoke against the backdrop of the statement by Oba Rilwan Akiolu that the Igbo in Lagos should vote the APC candidate ahead of the April 11 gubernatorial poll in the state. Controversy has continued to trail the outcome of the March 28 election. What is your view on threat by the Oba of Lagos that Igbo should have voted for the must vote for APC in the April 11 election or face the consequences? Ever since General Buhari won the election, all sorts of people in all sorts of places have been busy telling the Igbo that they should have voted for the winning team, that they voted emotionally which is another way of saying that ultimate wisdom lies in voting for the winner. The latest was that of Oba of Lagos giving the Igbo a marching order to vote for APC or else. Now this piece is not about who the Igbo should vote for or not but to tell the world who the Igbo are. The Igbo are almost all Christians and their valuation of any situation emanates from their Christian values – which include among other things sacrifices and faithfulness to ‘friends’. That is why the Igbo, in all their dealings with other nationalities keep faith to fairness. As far as the Igbo are concerned voting for Jonathan is being fair to the man who has shown them genuine brotherliness and support for the Ijaws and South – South people who are producing an executive president for the first time and from whose territory most of Nigerian sustaining wealth comes from. They reckon that four years is not forever after all. Even when they know that they will suffer unexplainable persecution from their compatriots because of their inclination to fairness, they still went ahead and did what they perceived to be just. Even though they are well known to work hard for money but money usually takes a far second when it clashes with the dictates of conscience. They are probably the only group of Nigerians that you can predict with great accuracy whom they will vote for in an election. Don’t you think their voting pattern has further exposed them as an endangered specie? Igbo do not vote out of fear of being marginalized by a predominant race or tribe wherever they reside. They vote in gratitude to those who have been fair to them. When the Igbo complained that Jonathan did not do much for them, it is not in comparison with former heads of state (who did absolutely nothing and left them to starve) but in comparison with what he did in the North and other southern parts of Nigeria. If Governor Fashola has been fair to Igbo in Lagos, without discriminating against them, over-taxing them, milking them of their hard-earned money, setting up all types of agencies to ensure that they do not do their business in peace, the APC have nothing to fear. Igbo have a way of saying thank you to those who have been fair to them. In my book, Voting with Conscience, what the Igbo do is far superior to strategizing to join the winning team. But the South-East voted massively for the PDP at the general elections even when they were not very pleased with the party’s performance? When the Igbo voted massively for President Jonathan, it is because he kept faith with them. Has Fashola been fair to them in the past eight years? My humble opinion is that he dealt ruthlessly with them. Igbo should not be afraid of anyone but the Eternal who has been faithful to them in their struggle against injustice. Voting is about choosing a candidate who, given his past record, is likely to be fair and sympathetic to your cause and who has kept faith with you in the past four years. The Igbo should join other well-meaning Nigerians – Yoruba, Hausa, Efik, Fulani, Ibibio, Ijaw, Gwaris etc – in voting for those who will make Lagos truly metropolitan and not a tribal enclave. Igbo should not behave like other races because we are not other races – we are the NDIGBO and we keep faith with those who have demonstrated spirit of justice, equity and fairness and not those who treat them like aliens in their own country. Nigerian is not only about presidency. Decamping to the APC by some morally-weak politicians shows that they are in politics for their stomach and not for what they believe in. The only way the APC must be kept on their toes at the federal level is to ensure that they are not totally in control at the states’ level otherwise they will develop the sort of impunity that total control brings. I will advise Nigerians to vote for parties that will keep the APC in check all over the country. www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/why-igbo-never-vote-out-of-fear-2/
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No fewer than 30 people were killed as soldiers invaded Kadarko, Kurmi and Wadata villages of Wase local government area of Plateau following the alleged killing of four soldiers by some unknown persons. The house of the traditional ruler of the Kadarko, Ponhzi Kadarko, Chief Lot Nde, was also said to have been torched. Our correspondent gathered that the soldiers who arrived the villages in over 40 trucks were in revenge mission over the alleged killing of their colleagues at Angwan Nanmi in Karin Lamido Local Government Area of Taraba State. Executive Director of Stefanos Foundation, Mr. Mark Lipdo, quoting sources from the village told our correspondent that the soldiers arrived and opened fire on innocent people and burnt houses. Lipdo said, “ Information says soldiers in over 40 trucks arrived Kadarko, Kurmi and Wadata of Wase LGA in Plateau State today(Saturday) following report of alleged killing of four soldiers at Angwan Nanmi, Karin Lamido LGA of Taraba State. According to residents, the soldiers arrived and opened fire on innocent people, burning houses. It is not clear why soldiers would open fire on the people they are supposed to defend.’’ He added, “Sources speculate that it is in retaliation for the killings of their colleagues. Others denied this, moreso that two of the four soldiers killed were even Tarohs from the area. Villagers would rather believe it is a deliberate plan by the outgoing governor to intimidate their area, following the overwhelming votes from the area that changed the results of last election.” Spokesman for the Special Task Force, Capt. Ikedichi Iweha while reacting to the allegation, said there was no truth in the claim that its members attacked anybody. He said that the operation was meant to check gunmen who had been terrorising residents and security personnel in the area. According to him, following frequent attacks on communities around the Plateau-Taraba border by some militiamen, the STF and soldiers from the 3 Armoured Division of the Nigerian Army had been carrying out operations targeted at flushing out the militiamen, and that soldiers who were working to protect innocent civilians could not turn around to kill the same people. http://www.punchng.com/news/soldiers-on-revenge-kill-30-in-plateau-villages/
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1dafullymade:Lol Be like say na church you dey do your own? |
Soldiers on revenge mission invade Plateau villages MAY 2, 2015 A yet-to-be-identified number of people have allegedly been killed after soldiers invaded Kadarko, Kurmi and Wadata villages of Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State following the alleged killing of four soldiers by persons. Our correspondent gathered that the soldiers, who arrived the villages in over 40 trucks, were on a revenge mission over the alleged killing of their colleagues at Angwan Nanmi in Karin Lamido Local Government Area of Taraba State. Executive Director of Stefanos Foundation, Mr. Mark Lipdo, quoting sources from the village, alleged, during an interview with our correspondent on Saturday, that the military men opened fire on innocent people and burnt houses. Lipdo said, “Information says soldiers in over 40 trucks arrived Kadarko, Kurmi and Wadata of Wase LGA in Plateau State today (Saturday) following report of alleged killing of four soldiers at Angwan Nanmi, Karin Lamido LGA of Taraba State. “According to residents, the soldiers arrived and opened fire on innocent people, burning houses. It is not clear why soldiers would open fire on the people they are supposed to defend. “Sources said it is in retaliation for the killings of their colleagues. Others denied this, more so when two of the four soldiers allegedly killed were even Tarohs from this area. Villagers would rather believe it is a deliberate plan by the outgoing governor to intimidate the people of the area, following the overwhelming votes from the area that changed the results of the last election.” Spokesman for the Special Task Force, Capt. Ikedichi Iweha, while reacting to the allegation last night, said there was no truth in the claim that its members attacked anybody. He said the operation was meant to check gunmen, who had been terrorising residents and security personnel in the area. According to him, following frequent attacks on communities around the Plateau-Taraba border by some militiamen, the STF and soldiers from the 3 Armoured Division of the Nigerian Army, had been carrying out operations targeted at flushing out the militiamen. He argued that soldiers, who were working to protect innocent civilians, could not turn around to kill the same civilians. www.punchng.com/news/soldiers-on-revenge-mission-invade-plateau-villages/ |
yoruba people Go die on top Igbo matter. Very useless people. How the matter take concern them I don't. They just can't live without Igbos. |
OgagaMic:So long as your mendicant Sobo tribe content its lazy self to that little portion of land that is yours in delta state (which of course does not include WARRI), then case closed as I would have nothing to do with a disdainful lot as yours. But any attempt to outstep your boundaries to claim a piece of land in Bayelsa state would be met with such hostility as capable of encapsulating your minute tribe. |
Skanas:I hate it when some of you who don't know your left from your right wants to talk tripe and begin it with 'I am Igbo' Where were you when all those yoruba wannabes take it upon their miserable selves to talk negatively on anything Igbo, using cloned identities to disguise themselves from being discovered as Yorubbish? |
jascon1:Be like say maggots dey live inside your head? Are you a Sobo or you just dey mental on your own? ...a woman's identity is been threatened and you this miserable goat is here bleating. Better go find grass chop before you choke in your vomit. |
Pirates of the Caribbean, Game of Thrones, Band of Brothers. |
OgagaMic:Lol! Look at a Sobo talking. A people with neither history nor lineage, a group of bats that are neither there nor here. You're a pathetic lazy lot, who do nothing but inebriate daily in abysmal liquor and abject oafishness. Your little space between Aniomas and Itshekiris should content your mendacious selves. Sobos, a very disgusting people. |
literarymathy:Neither am I ethnically prejudiced as I have shown in previous instance. But your people's disdain for fellow Nigerians have come to my notice and thus I have taken it upon myself to put you all in your places. I have friends all over the tribes. In fact I have more friends from outside my tribe. Because I don't make friends by tribe. So my recent discovery shocked me to the marrows. So its nothing personal, don't think I hate you or your people. I just hate your mentality. |
Donarozzi:Those Ikwerre are a miserable lot. They claim Igbo when it favors them. But when it comes to oil they began to say they're from Kanuri & Sokoto. Personally, I don't care about their identity. I don't see them as Igbo even if Amaechi kept screaming 'Abum Onye IGBO till thy kingdom come' Elechi Amadi who was their foremost scholar told a group of European & American scholars that his Ikwerre tribe's only true historic evidence & lineage was the one that traced them back to Igbo people. Yet some of them due to oil wells sold their birthright for a scoop of porridge. |
splashbaby:Na Yoruba Man! |
Freemanan:Funny Enough, I have housed an Urhobo man for many years in two different houses I lived. That tells you who I am. Now to the issue! Pls there's an urgent need to gather all world best Shrinks to help in curing you Sobos of your Abject Miserableness leading to hate, land grabbing disorder, innate jealousy and pathological laziness. |
literarymathy:Lol! Bitter fellows! Just content yourself to your little portion of land in Delta. Don't go claiming some lands in Bayelsa. That's exactly all the cure you all needed for your land grabbing disorder. Greedy loathsome fellows! |
OgagaMic:Sobos are so miserable. You are here trying to claim a land in Bayelsa state, just as you would love to claim Anioma. So if a few of your people are allowed to live in bayelsa, does that mean you would claim the land as yours? When has few hundreds of people living in a place make such place their land. Like I said, you Sobos are pathetic. You should content your miserable lives to your small portion of land in delta state, where you're neither here nor there but living as a bat. |
OgagaMic:What are Sobos known for? A people without history or lineage. A miserable lazy lot, who has nothing to offer their fellows than abject hate and jealousy. People who are neither here nor there! Pathetic lot, these Sobos! |
nairaman66:if your father wasn't so miserable, he would have thought you the art of respect. SOBOS, very miserable haters and pathetic re'tards. |
PDPmamapiss:The Maggots in your head has eating the little mucus that hitherto served as brain. Pathetic. |
PDPmamapiss:Your Neurosis should take you to yoruba topics. Why are you people so useless? |
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Not good bro....