₦airaland Forum

UnimkeAk:
Juju dey smell ?

I dunno. I'm thinking of those potions people rub on their bodies like garlic n stuff.

eluquenson:
If we tell them they are too stubborn, they say we are tribalistic but with this notice as vivid as if is yet these guys from the east still insist on their quest for money.
Walahi I support Indonesia to kill all drug traffickers nabbed.

Bros, don't be this way, please. They're not all "guys from the east." The four Naija men recently executed in Indonesia were not even majority Easterners, not to talk of "all."

UnimkeAk:
B4 I push drugs to indonesia na ghost wer I go be.

The kind serious Juju wer I go chop ehn, na 4 Basin ontop my head na it I go carry the drugs pass them.

No Shiii

The kind of juju you will carry for body will smell so bad paapa, the border custom officials would even refuse to search you and instead throw you outta the airport Sharp Sharp!

onatisi:
They only see this warning when they get there ,it is the warning on their passports that should be enough to discourage anyone from engaging in drug trafficking

What if it's your first time on a plane, and the drug baron didn't hand you your passport until you're checking in at Naija airport, and he warns you "you've got 1mil naira worth of the good shi!t in ur stomach and it's not coming out until you meet my guy in Indonesia or your mama will pay me 2million in cash or blood"?

omonnakoda:
Ad your demeanour will not change if you are not carrying.?
It has no greater predictive value than tossing a coin!! You stop 10 people you catch one. You have no way of knowing how many are in the 10 you do not stop. In fact the drug cartels can send people to change demeanour just to distract them so let us leave story. They have a PROFILE they are trained to look for but that profile has limited validity

I'm sure that profile reads "every Nigerian man, woman, child, pet. . ."

Yomieluv:
its even on the application form too.

what I see here is simply greed.

Or insanity.

Iyalasisi:
Jaybee3 I want this car

jaybee3:
Really?

Oya marry me na

jaybee3:


What colour?

Wait! Is this JayB the mod? Something rotten in the state of Denmark.

TheImp:
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/on-the-day-his-son-is-sentenced-igbinedion-donates-n8m-at-chief-judge-s-book-launch/208443/

An embarrassing scenario for the judiciary played out last‎ Thursday as businessman and father of former Edo State governor, Lucky Igbinedion, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, donated N8 million at the launch of a book in honour of the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta while another judge of the same court sentenced his son, Michael, for offences related to money laundering.

The sentencing was determined by another judge, not the Chief Judge. Still, I wonder if he would actually keep the "donation."

Igbinedion  made the highest donation of N8 million at the book launch.
Igbinedion, dressed in all white apparel, mingled freely with serving and retired judges, including senior lawyers who populated the gathering. He hugged and shook hands with those his lawyer, Richey Tarfa, SAN, introduced to him. He came in a brown limousine, with Esama (his traditional title) printed on its number plate.
When it was time to launch the book titled: “Encyclopedia of civil procedures and practices of superior courts in Nigeria,” put together by a group of Senior Advocates of Nigeria in honour of Justice Auta, Igbinedion spoke glowingly about the honouree, describing him as a “bold and courageous judge.”
Igbinedion’s donation of N8m was followed by the N7m put together by some Senior Advocates of Nigeria, led by Alex Iziyon (SAN).

The old man's an asshole and showoff. He wanted to make sure he gave the most money. Send his (questionable) money back!

While Igbinedion was eulogizing Justice Auta and making donation at his book launch in Abuja, his (Igbinedion’s) son,  Michael , who was convicted by Justice J. Liman of the Federal High Court, Benin the previous day,  was being sentenced in Benin.
Justice Liman had, on April 29 convicted Michael, younger brother to Lucky and Charles Eboigbodin, the former governor’s personal assistant for money laundering related offences.

Michael was convicted “for receiving cash in excess of the stipulated threshold, while Eboigbodin and a firm, PML Nigeria Limited were convicted on “for colluding to conceal the illicit origin of funds as stipulated under Section 14 (1)(b) of the Money Laundering (prohibition) Act.”

The offences, under Section 15 (b) of the Money Laundering Act carries “a fine of not less than N250, 000 or more than N1million or a term of imprisonment of not less than 2 years or to both fine and imprisonment.” The judge deferred sentencing to the following day.

On April 30, Justice Liman sentenced Eboigbodin to two years imprisonment, but gave Igbinedion an option of N1m fine on each of the three counts for which he was convicted.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had accused them of laundering about N25billion from Edo State’s coffers while Lucky was the state governor.

Lucky, who was equally accused of looting the state got a similar treatment in 2008 when, followinga controversial plea bargain with reached with the EFCC under the leadership of Farida Waziri, Justice Abdul Kafarati (then of the Enugu division of the Federal High Court) sentenced him to six months in jail with the option of a N3.5 million fine.

It runs in their family.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/on-the-day-his-son-is-sentenced-igbinedion-donates-n8m-at-chief-judge-s-book-launch/208443/

otokpamike:
Which of the Yoruba langauge will they teach them,since we have different types.

I don't think it's that hard to figure out what version/type of the language to teach, since, when language is written down it's quite straightforward. The difference comes in when you hear people speak - which is more about dialect. It is one language.

It's not that the words are that different. It's more the pronunciation is different. For example, take someone in the United States. When you read a book it's all written in English but when you go to different parts of the country people do sound different. You might not pick it up if you're from another country. . . as far as you're concerned everybody sounds different (from you) you don't know the difference between the difference (regions). lol.

Also, further compare how somebody who's speaking English in an Irish dialect speaks English to how a Londoner like Hugh Grant the actor speaks English, then compared that to how a Scottish person speaks or how a Southern United States person speaks his own English.

You know see those are simply issues of dialects and pronunciation not (a different version/type of the) language.

I also wanted to mention that this subject is quite interesting because 3 weeks ago I actually ran into someone - a stranger - who was very interested in Yoruba. She wanted me to teach her in the few minutes that she was around - she wanted me to teach her some Yoruba words. She said it (knowledge and interest) was very much in demand in her world. I taught her how to say good morning (E kaaro), good evening (E kaale), Hi/Hello (Bawo ni?). . . told her boy (okunrin) and girl (obinrin) . . . you know, just very basic things. And she remembered when she was leaving. She said that her school was actually very interested. . . that "you could teach it at our college." Of course no native Yoruba speaker would hire me to teach anyone how to speak it maybe write it. lol.

Just shows you the extent of the interest. The funny part of it is that she's not even African or connected to Nigeria in any way. This is just an American teenager that said that in her little 2 or 4-yr college, that's not Emory or even GA State - a small school that doesn't have a great deal of international students or foreign affairs or culture dept, yet the interest is everywhere.

Its good for Africa. Today it's Yoruba. Tomorrow it's Ashanti. Next day it's going to be all the languages. We cannot continue to be controlled by our own colonial past. We have to rise above it and take our spot next to everybody else not beneath anybody!


note: mostly dictated; limited on phone; apologies for typos.

babyosisi:
Yes many slaves captured from Yorubaland ended up in Cuba and Brazil working in plantations
What's the big deal
Is that news to anyone?
They didn't get there by choice
They got their bound in chains
That GEJ signed a treaty to teach some descendants of slaves a language of their ancestors is now a bragging right?
Nothing una no go celebrate

Yoruba juju and fetish practice dey nyafu nyafu for Cuba and Brazil too
The Yoruba slaves also transported their juju to the world
They call it Santeria
Read up on that too

I hope these teachers don't go there to start doing rituals

Are you really a physician? I've seen your posts for years and you display prejudice and hate bordering on the pathological. It's unusual to see an MD who has taken the Hippocratic Oath so unashamedly and relentlessly delight in anti-social behaviour. I once saw a post of yours where you compared 12-year old girls who want to wear hijab in school to prostitutes. Is that the way you see children? Would you be comfortable for those who know you to see your Nairaland opinons?

I can't copy the quote but did you all see in the OP where it says he does drug deals in China too?

This is the kind of person that should be held responsible for those poor misguided drug mules on death row in places like Indonesia. These are the kind of people that send those poor desperate people on suicide missions. Let them try him in Indonesia, not the desperate fools that do their errands.

And I don't believe any legitimate group made him Eze anything! Heck! Our honourable Eze of Nairaland is more legitimate than this Aussie outlaw.

can you reactivate a deactivated account? That Deactivate button is too close to the Update Profile button. Somebody tell Seun that please.

Aregs:
Yes most of them are Igbos but the News said Nigerians not Igbos... We must unite and rise against tribal discrimination... Some people are not even concerned bout the News but the tribe of the culprits, oga o



Proud to be a Nigerian/Yoruba

Thank you so much. I just saw this thread and I was going to respond to each of the tribal posts but there were so many! 15 minutes later, I'm still copying and pasting. lol.

But instead of quoting the ignorant haters I will simply concur with you, and add that. . .

Even though I am a strong advocate for a tough sentencing for violent crimes - MAINLY AS A DETERRENT - the news of so many Nigerians held on death row for drug trafficking is making me have a rethink of the efficacy of the death sentence for drug couriers. I am not ashamed to say, seeing so many of my people waiting to lose their lives is really making me wonder if it is not a symptom of a greater evil and mass mental instability in that country amongst the most impoverished desperate and vulnerable.

Anyone of us reading this thread should think of them as Nigerians and not what tribe or regions they're from. If the world hates you and sees you all the same, what purpose does it serve to turn on each other?

It's like this:
The Orangutan tells the gorilla, "Look here, I'm smarter than you, all you can do is roar and beat your chest, me? I've got brains."
The Chimpanzee scoffs, "Whatever I'm smarter than all of you put together, I'm brilliant, I can learn sign language and all kinds of things your tiny brains can't even fathom."
Meanwhile the world sees them all as monkeys!

A good portion of the world sees you all as sub-human. But you know WHO you are.

Stick with your African brother and stop hating.

Let's work on ending this drug trafficking and world-renowned Nigerian criminality together, not point fingers that it's this tribe or that tribe. They're Nigerians.

Proudly Naija4life and Pan-Africanist till the end.


<steps off soapbox>

massinola:
good. it's the season of oluwa trekoo ,but one thing that amazes me is why some people are superised by these actions of the northerners, were are the fulanis from, is it not from the same north, don't they trek with their cows all the way from maidugri to PH which is the longest distance in this country? they can continue to trek all they can but I know for sure that after may 29th any one trekking should just know that as soon as he/she arrives Abuja, na straight to psychiatric hospital for proper mental examination. he's tolerating you guys now cos he believes u are still in the euphoria of winning the election. I don't believe we elected him to give hand shakes to aimless trekkers. After may 29 any visit to aso rock will be strictly on national issues. less I forget, help me thank God for this great privilege of making FP after one year of waiting.

Werey.

lalasticlala:
https://mobile.twitter.com/MusadiqZ/status/594522561880403970

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2370095_ceargzbwiaagp8_jpeg87582c00207bf0b275e8b2da9f5c9113

Go for it, sis!

{{{Hajiya for the win!}}}

Look at the determination on her face. . What a man can do a (Naija) woman can do better!

otiigba1:
Drug pushing is no it a sin! It just against the law but not a sin

lol. just because it's not listed in the Ten Commandments does not mean it is not a sin. anyway i'm not a specialist in sinning. but you know intoxication that is a sin. you pushing others to be intoxicated and even worse conditions with narcotics, I think clearly thats a sin. like i said, I am not really looking at it from that (sin) angle. i am looking at it from a public health angle. i would like however to see a human rights lawyer and a death penalty lawyer go in and defend these condemned guys based on the insanity claim, because you would have to be insane to go carry drugs to a country that's going to kill you. i mean its a suicide mission and as far as I'm concerned the line of defense if nothing else is mental incapacity.

limited on phone pls overlook typos.

lucasolaflex:
she is look so beautiful. I wonder how she will like in young age.am so impressive

The dress is ugly; the hair is hideous! But she's pretty.

tlops:
Pastor Adeboye is not a politician. Both GEJ and David chose the the way they wanted to be prayed for. If GEJ had stood Pastor Adeboye would not have force him down. If God is going to answer David C's prayers, that between God and him.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2324909_img20150329wa0001_jpeg456c6921975619e61e90de00e6f2257b

Interesting pic. I can't recall who put that event together.

Ilekeh:



https://qwikgist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/amala-qwikgist.jpg

Mm-hmm. . .nice. But why is the amala rolled like a burrito? I see ila/okro/okra and what looks like chicken drumettes in obe dindin.

Gamesmart:
Goodluck Jonathan:

“I don’t give a damn about declaration of assets. Declaration of assets is irrelevant to good governance".

"There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria".

"You cannot put a goat, yam and plantain together and say that the goat should not eat yam. In parallel, you cannot put the President and his cronies in power in charge of our state resources and say that they should not steal or act dishonestly. Corruption by public office holders is inevitable as you would naturally expect your goat to eat yam if kept with the yam".

Chei! No way my presido said that! Someone gave him ogogoro, kept him up for hours with no naps, and filmed him spouting something they wrote on a teleprompter. No way. Leave my uncle president doctor Jona (PhD) alone joo.



Seriously, you made that sh!it up. The last sentence about yams and goats and office holders stealing as a norm.


Anyway, make una leave Barcanista alone. Free speech and all that.

barcanista:
PreSident Shehu Shagari

“The army after toppling our democratic regime have no option but to install Buhari as head of state so as to avoid credibility problem especially in the sight of international community because of his being an epitome of integrity.“

President Goodluck Jonathan

“Gen. Muhammadu Buhari was a true patriot, respected former head of state & elder statesman & a nationalist.“

President Olusegun Obasanjo

“There are only 2 honest & reliable Nigerians. Myself & Buhari. All what PDP is saying of Buhari being fundamentalist is mere hot lies. They just fear let‘s go to jail “

"Muhammadu Buhari as a member of the Supreme Military Council and as Head of NNPC was by nature taciturn and introvert. But he took any work that was given to him very seriously. He is reliable as he is hardworking and honest, his path of moral probity and rectitude” Incorruptible

President Musa Yaradua

“Buhari was a big brother & a father to some extent that mean nothing in life & to the nation always other than good. So, I fear no harm from him.“

General Abdusalam Abubakar

“Buhari was honest & sincere in all his conduct that perhaps, only very few Nigerians could match in integrity.“

General Sani Abacha

“I have realise our collective mistake in over- throwing you. I have seen the terrible damage which our inaction caused to the Nigerian psyche. I am most sorry. Please, come & do what is best known of you. Patriotic service to the nation.“(PTF Inaugural Speech)


General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida

“If Buhari quit PTF job as he promise & as we knew him to mean his words all along, I support the idea of scrapping PTF as no one else can do the job as him.“
"I respect Buhari. He was my Boss .He was an honourable man. And I can say this anywhere”. -General Ibrahim Babangida

ALH. ISIYAKU IBRAHIM-PDP BOT Member

“As a member PDP BOT, i decided personally to donate the #5,000,000 to Buhari‘s campaign organisation because of my firm believe in his ability to right all the nation wrongs .
“Buhari is as clean as the book I am holding”

Prof Tam David West

“The issue of Gen. Buhari‘s presidency was always being dreaded by the criminals who looted the nation to stuppor by embarking upon campaign of calumny so as to smear his name with a view to denying Nigerians having a leader who can improve their lots.“

Sen Ahmed Makarfi-Fmr Kaduna State Governor, PDP BOT Member

“If the truth must be said, Buhari remain the only real threat to PDP wither he run for the presidency or not due to his wider followership among the masses that now hit the elite circle.“

Alh Balarabe Musa, Fmr Kaduna State Governor

"Now my task is to challenge all of us to ensure this man becomes President this year. General Buhari deserves to be given a chance. When he became Head of State after the 1983 coup, thousands of Second Republic politicians, including me were picked and locked up by the Junta. But even in kirikiri, I discovered that the NPN elements among us were giving bribe to prison officials to ensure they got double ration of food. It dawned on me that people who can offer bribes even in kirikiri have no reason to be our leaders. Buhari was vindicated"

Chief Femi Falana, Fmr President, West African Bar Association

"Buhari was a soldier of HONOUR. There are soldiers and there are soldiers. There are soldiers who are men of honor. The man (Buhari) has decided to commit 26% of budgetary allocation to education"





On Goodluck Jonathan

President Jonathan
'If I’m voted into power within the next four years, the issue of power will become a thing of the past. Four years is enough for anyone in power to make significant improvement, and if I can’t fix power, it then means I cannot do anything even if I am there for the next four years.”-

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo 2013
"Jonathan has failed to deliver on his promises to the Nigerian people ... of living of Nigerians, Mr. Jonathan had betrayed God and the Nigerian people that brought him to power, and has been pursuing selfish personal and political interests based on advice he receives from “self-centred aides”.-

Gen IBB
"The best we could do is to always sit with him in an environment that is really conducive and then give him advice, and I think I am glad to say that we are doing the best we can to assist him, while we urge Nigerians to be patient with Mr. President."-

President Museveni
“I have never invited the United Nations to guard our security. Me, Yoweri Museveni to say that I have failed to protect my people and I call in the UN …I would rather hang myself. We prioritised national security by developing a strong army; otherwise our Uganda would be like DRC, South Sudan, Somalia or Nigeria where militias have disappeared with school children. It will be a vote of no confidence in our country and our citizens if we can’t guarantee our security. What kind of persons would we be?”- President Museveni of Uganda attacking Nigeria and Jonathan in its handling of BH

Speaker Aminu Tambawal
“The President’s body language seems to be encouraging corrupt practices in the country

Quoted for posterity sake. Hope no edits since October 2014.

Mization:
Ambassador of Saharawi republic in Abuja yesterday dressed in Agbada, received by President elect Buhari.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2363078_cdsckigwiaaog5e_jpeg9f573cd1b67223bd36d68f647e7c75de

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


That might cause friction with Morocco. But the Ambassador was being slick sha.

MzJackBaueress:
Shattap! Who are you to determine who is real and fake Igbo?
Are both Willie Obiano and Arthur Eze not real Igbos too?

You will go to hell and not the General. Infact,you are already in hell.

This Berem Ooo!

T9ksy:
http://tribuneonlineng.com/content/how-my-troops-stopped-biafran-soldiers-ore-%E2%80%94col-iluyomade-rtd



Ija ore- oleku...........The battle of Ore was fierce!!!

To be honest, I wanted to read a lot more about it (the battle in Ore). I have been hearing bits and pieces about it my whole life. Especially the danger to civilians and civilian casualty. It appears the soldiers all survived, but the townspeople, I believe were the worse off. Or is that the towns the Biafrans passed through on the way to Ore?

I like his assessment of Buhari, which is in line with what most objective people who have dealt with the general also say.

shamecurls:
Biafrans never lost the war, they killed themselves

Dude, what's the point of those pictures?

doctokwus:
Dimeji bankole was young:he was as fraudulent as they come.
GEJ was relatively young. He has turned out to not only b fraudulent but grossly incompetent.
Let's focus on competence of individuals because incompetence and fraud has been shown in Nigeria to know no age boundary

Thank you, sir.

Octogenarians (people over the age of 80 ) are active and engaged in all aspects of life. People are living longer and staying active and useful longer. Below is a photo of a sitting Justice in the U.S. Supreme Court, who is called upon to make important decisions every day. She is in her 80s as well. With age comes wisdom. I think Nigerians were so used to seeing young people (like 30-year old Gowon) in power and in charge when the republic was still young, they thought it was always going to be like that. With age comes wisdom. Respect, please. I know for a fact my late grandfather when he was 85 years old could make better decisions, and was of sound mind more, than most people half his age.

https://media.salon.com/2009/02/hell_hath_no_fury_like_ruth_bader_ginsburg.jpg

adeyeb:
by grace we are saved nd nt by the law,lest should anyman boost he is perfect,,,i ll advice u ppu to always do good~always

You sound like a good person and the executions have really touched you and a lot of people.

But the fact remains, drugs, especially heroin, are a killer - for sure - sometimes fast, often slow. If it doesn't kill outright, it ruins lives and families and turn addicts into degenerates and criminals. If you deal or traffic drugs and are willing to push it to others, you are willing to kill. If you are willing to take another's life, you in turn should be prepared to give your life when the time comes. It's the deal criminals made with the devil.

We had this same law in Nigeria during Buhari's first regime, (though I'm unsure why was applied retroactively to those who committed their crimes before the law went into effect). It seems those times of anti-criminality and anti-corruption are gone forever and we are now prepared to accept any immorality in our country. Why is that? Do you see how dangerous the country has become? A family friend told of their house being burgled recently, in area that such would never happened a decade ago. A friend told of a "pickpocket" who walked up to her at a bus stop in Costain and pointed a gun at her to give her purse. A gun! A gun! In Naija. ordinary pickpocket has graduated to an armed robber now walking around in daylight unafraid to point a gun at someone at a crowded bus stop!

We are not only comfortable with high levels of criminality, we routinely export it to other countries. Why out of the 8 executed in Indonesia this time, 4 are Nigerians? Do you have any idea how the reputation of drug trafficking affects other international travelers with a Nigerian passport? Do you know how many years Western countries have been stopping honest businesswomen at airports and demanding body searches of them simply because they caught one 3 or 4 Nigerian that month with drugs hidden on their bodies?

Don't do the crime if you're not prepared for the consequences.

Nigeria will be great one day.

macanu:
Do any1 here studying in this schools over there,who have connection directly to european free tuition universities in any of the countries.pls let me knw.thanks so much

I'm not in Europe, but in USA the free or reduced tuition is usually for the citizens or permanent resident (green card holders) who are one year or longer residents in a particular state - since the schools that do free tuition are mainly state-owned public universities.

Good luck, bros.

haywire1:
Not true, ask ur elders. Ghana left when ther economy was better

Lies from the pit of hell! How old are you?

mummyson26:
Walahi If I were to go to indonesia the best thing
for me is to go there without luggage, imagine
me stepping on the indonesia's airport one police
man just call me sey oya come here omo na faint
I go faint oo

Hahahaha! my luggage will be a clear plastic handbag. Lol.