₦airaland Forum

Yee, this is interesting.

My vote could have made the difference but I didn't vote because I knew little about them. Almost voted for madlady, but I just didn't know why I was reluctant to click. I didn't want to vote half-informed.

edoyad:
Chai ! O boy ! ! i'm shocked beyond words. I used to think Nigerians liked Momodu
that's why Meryl Streep said you should visit the blogosphere anytime you beginning to think you're something, quite a humbling place.
Nairalanders if you don't like anything about me better tell me now o, don't embarrass for nothing one day.

Ok, lemme tell you what I used to think of you
What is this Yoruba guy doing in Kaduna?

eleshin:
is he aware of all dis bashing?

Not sure. But he knows generally that he's not in Nairalanders' good book. I can easily send this thread to him too, but why not let him go jeje. That is if he has not peeped here already.

mbulela:
^^
aha!!!
i for say.
I do not read Dele's articles any longer, so since it was quoted from your post, i assumed it was yours.
My apologies on that note.

apologies taken. . , haba, I have not been 'captured' or  'degenerated' to the extent of uttering such a statement

mbulela:
Jarus,
If you repeat such comments again, i will lose all respect i have for you as a person and an intelligent one at that.

Which comments pls?

Or are you referring to this Dele's paragraph in the article:

Those who attack Segun Adeniyi for doing his job today are very unrealistic. What do they expect of him? Once a man accepts a job, he must obey his boss. He may privately advise his boss, but it would be reckless of him to criticise him in public. Segun has not behaved like the usual loquacious spokespersons of government. He has comported himself with decorum. The vicious attack on people like him is one reason good people are afraid to serve in government. The alternative is for bad people and rogues who don’t care about the name-calling to continue to rule us.

?

Or you don't know how quoting in NL works again?

So because I was the one that posted the article, and somebody quoted it, which automatically means, the poster's name will appear as the quoted, mean that statement was mine.

The statement is not mine, and can never be mine.
It's just a paragraph in DM's article I posted, quoting which my name will appear as the quoted.
Take time o

bilms:
why do u enjoy speaking english instead of your native even with your friends that u re sure understands your language,

or may be u saw a lady whom u no understand your language, so y speak english?

Who told you I speak English?

Barcelona 2004/2005.

I think it should eb in this order:

1, Zidane
2, Ronaldo
3, Ronaldinho
4, Messi
5, Henry

Hmmnnnnnn, watching

WINNERS:
AMODU SHUAIBU: Despite the criticisms, still qualified Nigeria for WC
OSAZE ODEMWINGIE: Passion and commitment for Nigerian football
PETERSIDE IDAH:When all hopes appeared lost for Super Eagles, and it became embarrassing to defend Nigerian football oustide our shores, stood firmly behind Nigeria on Supersports, amid jests from Ivorian Momodu Ganye and South African Thomas Mlambo. Even I was feeling ashame and pitying him behind screen. Peterside boasted that Nigeria will qualify. He had the last laugh.
LAMIDO SANUSI: Zeal and passion to sanitize Nigeria's rotten banking system
MIKE ADENUGA: Continued with his many firsts in 2009.
JUSTICE OYEWOLE: Delivered the landmark judgment that sent Bode george to jail
BABATUNDE RAJI FASHOLA: Infrastructural development of Lagos
THE NEXT NEWSPAPER: Broke into Nigeria's print media industry unannounced, and within a short time, make a mark.

LOSERS:
ERASTUS AKINGBOLA: Needless to rehash his undoings
CECILIA IBRU: Afefe fe, ari furo adie(Fowl's yansh exposed)
FRANCIS ATUCHE: Disappoints his admirers, including me, with revelations about his many atrocities
DELE MOMODU: His junk journalism exposed
FAROUK ABDULMUTALLAB: Brought Nigeria's name into global limelight for the wrongest of reasons
MIKE AONDOAKAA: Continues to embarrass Nigeria
BODE GEORGE: Oju ole ree
TURAI YAR'ADUA: Shows what power-hunger can do



IN-BETWEEN:
BECOMMRICH: I'm still wondering what is wrong with the guy.

mbulela:
Jarus,
Please extend my gratitude to your friend

rasputinn:

I wanted to see what Jarus will have to say about his "friend's" resignation

I am not Dele's fan. I'm his critic. I don't fancy his style and I have told him to his face.
The fact that I communicate with him doesn't mean I am his fan.

Here are some of my previous posts on NL to criticize him, far back August last year:

Wow!   This guy beat me to writing rejoinder to that Dele Momodu article. I have been thinking and conceiving my rejoinder to that article since I read it in his column, PENdulum, this week Sunday. I have already captioned my rejoinder: DELE MOMODU: THE COLUMNIST AS A PRAISE-SINGER but have not had time to sit down and pen it.

My own rejoinder however slightly differs from the guy up there's. I do not support envy and Pull Him Syndrome syndrome, and Indeed, in my piece, ENTER SANUSI THE SANITY HARBINGER , I also expressed reservation over how some people went beyond issues to jubilate over the sack of Ibru and Akingbola, but Momodu's slighting of a genuine move, to me, is praise-singing taken too far. I'm not unaware of his association with the Akingbolas and Ibrus. My own piece is more general. I follow Dele Momodu's writings in his Sunday column, PENdulum, and if he's not praising MKO Abiola or Mike Adenuga, he will be praising Ghana. The most predictable columnist. It's not a crime to praise-sing really, but I just can't help penning my view of his writings in that my DELE MOMODU: THE COLUMNIST AS A PRAISE-SINGER and it was triggered by his latest piece on the sacked bank chiefs.

I'm so surprised to know I'm not the only one having this opinion.
Dele Momodu should stick to his celebrity journalism(which is about praise-singing or as nairalanders would call it, backside-licking) where he's earning his bucks and which has made him one of Nigeria's richest journalists.
Most of his analyses in serious political and economic debates are at most laughable.


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More frequent statements like, 'When i saw with Aunty Dora at. . .' or 'At a party i sat between Ndukwe and. . .'.
Makes me remember one of his recent pieces where all he had to write was how he sat in the 3rd row in Michael Jackson's burial.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-314903.0.html

DELE MOMODU: ABUSE OF COLUMNISM
There is no disputing the fact that Dele Momodu is one of Nigeria's most successful journalists, if popularity, connection and depth of pocket are anything to go by. We can't take that away from him
I don't have any problem with his Ovation magazine, my problem with him is what he writes at the back of ThisDay every Sunday in the name of column writing. If he's not praising MKO Abiola or Mike Adenuga, he will be praising Ghana. At other times, he will be telling us how he flew from one airport to another or how he sat close to one personality. That is all he has to write on serious national issues. The most predictable columnist, if you ask me.
Doesn't he see what other ThisDay columnists like Simon Kolawole, Kayode Komolafe, Yusuph Olaniyonu,Ijeoma Nwogwugwu and Chidi Amuta write on weekly basis.

His analysis on serious issues are at best laughable.

Dele needs to go back to his celebrity journalism. I can point to tens of Nairalanders that can do better, if given the opportunity to write weekly in ThisDay. Let ThisDay stop wasting that space.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-316170.0.html

@Muhsin,
May almighty Allah, the supreme healer, put you through and give you sound health. Insha Allah, we will not foregt you in our prayers.


@all,
Pls I need your prayers too. I want to bid farewell to bachelorhood this year o.

I don't have any problems with it. It's a price we have to pay for the misdeeds of some bad eggs among us.

He knows about teh bashing he gets from Nairaland. It is obvious he had NL in his mind in that sentence.

He sent this to me a couple of months ago:

Dear Jarus,
Many thanks for your mail.
My attention had been drawn to the hate attack on my person on Nairaland.
I can never join issues with fellow Nigerians who have the right to hate and attack people they disagree with it. And in particular someone they don't know obviously.
I wish all of you well in your chosen endeavours, and pray that God will crown your efforts with success,
I hope you'll kindly check out the OVATION INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE(LOUD FOR A PURPOSE) on Facebook and join the great things that God is doing in our lives, Just as there are a few people on Nairaland who wish Ovation dead, let's consider the over 7,000 fans of Ovation on Facebook, Their opinion counts as well. If 20 out of 100 disagree with our huge success in African journalism, that's a fair deal.
Our dream is to be a global brand, and God is supporting us definitely. That is why the OVATION FRENCH EDITION has maintined a beautiful office, where Nigerians are employed, in Cotonou, for over three years now. We also have our production office in Ghana where electricity is fairly stable to reduce our overhead costs, and to promote the best of Nigeria abroad. We opened a beautiful restaurant, HOUSE OF OVATION in Ghana, to cater to the unique tastes of Nigerian tourists and investors in Ghana. We have been worthy Ambassadors of Nigeria in over 60 countries, and we've been well-applauded for our breath-taking efforts.
To borrow MKO abiola's favourite saying, EGAN KO PE KOYIN MADUN, NO AMOUNT OF HATRED CAN CHANGE THE TASTE OF HONEY, Rather destroy my work, why don't you just do yours, and make it better than mine. The same energy being dissipated at killing Ovation can only produce a better magazine that can showcase the lifestyle of poor Nigerians. There is room for more magazines considering our huge population.
I give you the right, dear brother, to post my comment wherever you choose.
My love to you and your family,

DELE MOMODU
London

javalove:
Salam Alykun. . .

Congrats Muhsin. . .!

W/salam omo iya,
So u dey around and u never come ds side all ds while.

semid:
Let me add to what you posted - This is serious. Ogbuke, Adeleye, Adefemi and Ajilore not making the list and peeps like Eneramo and Nwaneri making it. No be na wa, na real wa!

It is very serious

This is serious. Ogbuke not making the list and Eneramo making it. I'm afraid.

Some people have taken permanent residence on the internet to attack fellow citizens without any justification. My only sin is that I publish a very popular magazine that gives space to saints and sinners to feature their events. Our magazine is largely pictorial, and we don’t write editorials which glorify “thieves and rogues”. My critics can’t seem to appreciate the risk I take by speaking up against those they claim to be my friends. Is it not easier to dine with the devil and see no evil?

When I started reading the story, I was just too sure Dele will not forget his 'friends' on Nairaland, and other less popular internet forums. I was sure he will ahve a message for Mbulela and co, and I was right. I came across this!!!

Dele Momodu has decided to say 'Good Bye' to column writing for ThisDay.

He bids you all farewell in his last column:

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=163231

I  had planned to say a different kind of goodbye to my ardent readers last week. A call to the Editor of THISDAY the Saturday Paper, Ms Ijeoma Nwogwugwu changed all that.

THISDAY was on holiday last Saturday, so I didn’t have to stress myself writing the Pendulum column. I had nearly completed what should have been my last piece for my THISDAY column. My target was to quit my weekly writing by the last Saturday of 2009. But that was not to be. That break turned out to be some kind of blessings, even if on some sad notes.


First was the unthinkable news of the alleged Nigerian bomber on an America-bound flight. I thought someone was cracking some cruel joke when the news broke. Nigerians have been widely advertised as the world’s happiest people. We often boast that a revolution cannot take place in our dear country for that simple reason.

We’d readily enter the Guinness Books of Records as the unsurpassable merry-makers on planet earth. How was I to believe that a 23-year old charming boy was capable of not just killing himself but also attempting to terminate almost 300 innocent souls? The story of the handsome young man remains stranger than fiction. Even as I write this the whole world is agog with the story of “The Nigerian”. 


As if that was not rattling enough, I was in the ancient city of Ile-Ife last Sunday, December 27, 2009, when a text message flew into my phone like thunderbolt. I was instantly dazed by its content: MARYAM BABANGIDA IS DEAD! Like a somnambulist, I tried to clear my head of the confused state I was in. 

And the journalist in me immediately took over. This was the second time in less than two months that I was receiving such terrible news. I decided to crosscheck with someone I knew was very close to the Babangidas and was able to confirm the breaking news.


I was more familiar with Maryam Babangida’s daughter, Aisha, but did not know where she was at that moment. As tradition demands in Africa, it was necessary to offer my condolences to the bereaved. I decided to send mine to Aisha and prayed for Allah to accept her mum’s soul. Surprisingly, I received a response from Aisha shortly after: “Dele, thank you very much for your thoughtful prayers. Thank you.” I could imagine how she felt at moment being a veteran of the same motherless status. My mum died over two years ago but I still cry like a baby once in a while. It is not easy to lose your mother, especially if she was as sweet as mine was.


Maryam Babangida’s battle with cancer had crept in like a thief in the night exactly ten years ago. As a matter of fact, Ovation International had published exclusive pictures of Maryam on her return from Paris where she had gone for the initial treatment in 1999. In the picture which appeared on our cover, she looked drained and darker. Our cover was a screamer of sorts: MARYAM BABANGIDA’S FIRST PICTURES AFTER HER PARIS OPERATION. But she bounced back to her usual gaiety in subsequent years and we all hoped the worst was over. In fact, she looked more radiant, and enjoyed life to the hilt.


But she had added a new kind of religious piety and her friendliness was palpable when we met at the swearing-in ceremony of Liberia’s first female President, Madam Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, in Monrovia a few years ago. She was very warm and pleasant. She made appearances here and there at birthdays, weddings and other such celebrity events. She remained a head-turner and newsmaker to the end. 


I’m pleased to have had the opportunity to say goodbye to a stormy petrel whose stint as Nigeria’s First Lady was remarkable in many ways. Love or loathe her, Maryam Ndidi Babandida was a woman you couldn’t ignore. Her controversial Better Life for Women project was pursued with the agility of a wrestler. She eventually received her crowning glory when she won and shared The Hunger Project Award in 1991 with Kenya’s Nobel Peace Laureate, Professor Wangari Mathai. I was privileged to witness the powerful ceremony in London.


It was the tonic Maryam needed to continue her pet project to the very end of her tenure. Even when it seemed her husband had committed the terminal error of annulling Nigeria’s best election ever, and the people of the South-west of Nigeria felt aggrieved Maryam was the pathfinder who made it possible for the Babangidas to meander their way back to the Lagos social circuit. She was an energetic bridge-builder and a great networker. 


From paying tribute to Maryam, I have the pleasure of saying goodbye to my readers. Whatever has a beginning must have an end. For me, it is time to move on. I’ll be 50 by God’s grace in a few months and I need some time to finish my books. I owe that project to the strident calls of readers who believe I must make my works permanently available to my ardent fans.

I sincerely thank both my fanatical supporters as well as my vociferous critics for making it possible for me to enjoy the cult followership I seemed to have commanded in the past few years. I’m particularly flattered and bemused that I have my chief critics who hate my column with so much venom but can’t wait to read and attack it every week. I’ll surely miss you all.


This voyage began about 30 months ago. I had just landed in Lagos that brilliant morning from my base in Accra, Ghana. As soon as we touched down, I had planned to speak to the THISDAY publisher, Mr. Nduka Obaigbena, on some important issues affecting a few of our mutual friends.

I was already on the Third Mainland Bridge when I got through to Nduka and he told me he was on his way to the airport to catch a private flight to Benin City. He insisted I must join him on the flight in order to discuss the matter of our friends. In less than one hour thereafter, we were already airborne and cruising towards the ancient city of the once powerful Benin Kingdom.


It was in the course of our flight that Nduka revealed that Segun Adeniyi was on his way to joining the Yar’Adua team in Aso Rock. I asked what would happen to his extremely popular column, and Nduka said he would find a good replacement. He asked if I was interested, and if I’ll be able to find the time from my very hectic lifestyle to write a regular column and I answered in the affirmative. I love challenges and the discipline required to oil it. I was ready to resurrect Pendulum again, and that was it.


It was really a kind of homecoming. I had been a part of the foundation that packaged the birth of Leaders & Company, the parent company of THISDAY newspapers, as far back as 1992. I had secured the services of some of the key staff at that tough beginning in the Ikoyi office. THISDAY would always be dear to my heart for that reason. I’m proud that the THISDAY media brand has grown into an octopus with fingers in many pies. It was only natural that I’ll always love to contribute to its phenomenal growth.


My biggest challenge was the difficulty of creating the time every week to write the column. The fact that I was constantly on the move made matters worse. A lot of the times, I found myself typing frantically on the plane. There were times I had to contend with the problems of time difference and internet connections, even in the United States.

I was fortunate to have had to deal with understanding editors like Simon Kolawole, at first and later Ijeoma Nwogwugwu and Laurence Ani, who gave me some flexibility. Ijeoma in particular became my chief critic. We discussed issues a lot and I found her extremely knowledgeable. She was as comfortable with financial matters as with political topics. Her versatility extended even to the choicest wines in the vineyard. Nigerians should watch out for this terrific Amazon in the future.


A second challenge was how to respond as quickly as possible to a nation and a people perpetually on the fast lane. News items are often produced in Nigeria with the rapidity of popcorn. Keeping up sometimes could be breath-taking. We also had a cynical public to deal with. They sometimes know you more than you know yourself, and they judge you by your appearance than by your real thoughts. The critics sit in the comfort of their homes to dictate who you should be and not what they should become.

Some people have taken permanent residence on the internet to attack fellow citizens without any justification. My only sin is that I publish a very popular magazine that gives space to saints and sinners to feature their events. Our magazine is largely pictorial, and we don’t write editorials which glorify “thieves and rogues”. My critics can’t seem to appreciate the risk I take by speaking up against those they claim to be my friends. Is it not easier to dine with the devil and see no evil?
There is also the issue of literary appreciation which has become lacking in our society. Some readers find it hard to appreciate the literary skills of a writer. They are only interested in his message. But writing is not always about its didactic relevance, the literary styles of the writer must be enjoyed and enjoyable. Experience they say is the best teacher. But when a writer writes from his personal experience and encounters, he’s often attacked as a boastful, name-dropping and egoistic columnist.

My favourite columnists and reporters are those who throw themselves into their art. May Ellen Ezekiel’s column, MEE, was extremely influential and inspiring because she was able to feed her readers with her incredible life experience. It is difficult to forget her Classic, Over Cognac, in which she detailed what she had to go through to have a child, including being asked to drink concoctions made from her own body fluids. An ambitious writer must be bold and be ready to shock sensibilities.


There is no law that says all columnists must write alike. That is why a column is the personal property of the writer. A reader is at liberty to read his favourite column and ignore the ones he doesn’t like. You may choose one for his message and read the other for its literary style. It is wrong to insist that every writer must embrace the same ideology and methodology. A writer is a member of our society.

He’s not a saint on account of being a social critic. He must feed his family and pay his bills like the rest of us. He’s not a masquerade from heaven. His mission is to seek for a better society, not necessarily a perfect society, because none exists in our world today.


Those who attack Segun Adeniyi for doing his job today are very unrealistic. What do they expect of him? Once a man accepts a job, he must obey his boss. He may privately advise his boss, but it would be reckless of him to criticise him in public. Segun has not behaved like the usual loquacious spokespersons of government. He has comported himself with decorum. The vicious attack on people like him is one reason good people are afraid to serve in government. The alternative is for bad people and rogues who don’t care about the name-calling to continue to rule us.


I have been asked by many readers why we bother to write in a nation where leaders don’t seem to read, and even if they do they don’t really care.  My answer had always been that I write personally as a form of psychotherapy. It heals my mind to think that I can talk freely when others have been cowed. I feel good that I can risk my business and everything to criticise a system that has kept us down as a people. Writing for me is a personal victory over the principalities that inhabit our corridors of power. Nobody should take that joy away from us.


We must all engage in constructive criticism. Abusing people for fun will never change any system. Our country needs to be rescued, and we can no longer afford to keep our arms akimbo. The days of arm-chair criticism should be over. It has led us nowhere. If we truly love our country, we must join hands to liberate Nigeria from the backwardness that stares us all in the face.


I have had great fun on this page and I’ll always treasure the memory of the wonderful goodwill the Pendulum column has brought to me. May God bless us all.
Happy New Year.

OAU beats them all: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=147071.0;viewResults#bot

Barka Jum'ah

A nice piece from Ijeoma there.

[quote author=Tudór link=topic=374335.msg5227896#msg5227896 date=1262324007]What is the nairaland news service?[/quote]I also wonder o

But Elrazur went overboard in trying to correct teh faux pas:

Nairaland.com as stated in your report is not a news website. It is more or less a forum that is populated by bickering, insult trading and little intellectual debate.[/b]To quote from a forum as your source does nothing but degrades the quality of your news report and raises serious question on the type of research your Journalist carries out prior to the report.

I hope this error is corrected swiftly and amends are made so it do not happen again in the future.

PS
Below is a link to Nairaland home page. [b]Have a look at the various discussion and see for yourself, if it is worth writing home about.

Haba, this is damn too harsh!

Knowing that she's going out with another man. Omo, she's a goner o

Can't say, but most likely sleeping.

[quote author=sleek_p link=topic=374076.msg5224095#msg5224095 date=1262267276]Alhaji Abdulmutallab reported his son to the US embassy like they were guardian to his son. What a failure this creature of a father is.
I bet this was to divert attention away from the banking crisis that has seen him removed from office.
If you haven't heard the latest, well the CIA and FBI have summoned him to American embassy to explain himself.

P.S
If you can't control your kids, the CIA will do it for you. . . . nice.[/quote]The proliferation of dumbheads in Nairaland politics section these days is worrying.

Do you know anything at all? Who told you Mutallab was removed from office? And you think reporting your biological son as a security threat to US authorities is a risk worth taking to 'divert' attention from banking crisis? Between banking crisis(a national offence) and security risk( an international offence), which one is more grave and which one would you choose? You seriously need to have your head examined if you believe what you wrote. I'm serious.

But to lecture you, Mutallab was not removed from office. He resigned after clocking seven years and spending ten years as FBN chairman. He has not been mentioned in the banking crisis either.

SECTION CLEAN UP

After the section-wide clean up we embarked upon some six months ago, we have observed that insanity is gradually returning to this section, with constant off topics, abusive words, useless threads, duplicated threads, etc.

It therefore becomes imperative for the authorities to embark on a clean up exercise. In the next few days, we shall be deleting all off-topic posts no matter how important, all irrelevant threads, and all abusive posts. Recalcitrant posters may be banned.

We advise everyone to cooperate as we look forward to having a peaceful 2010.

Thanks
Moderator.

The complaints here is about the use of this section.

Go and ask those at the open forum or dig out threads where those have been treated before.

Abu Zola:
Salamu alaikum, is the issue of Abdul muttalab.

I don't support suicide bombing, likewise the killing of non combatant.

I believe am the youngest in the midst of this honourable brothers, i want to know what i don't know, knowledge is said to be vast.

Lets take just a piece of the atrocity, lets go to Gaza - our brethren in Gaza 1,200 innocent civilian were killed by the israeli and the U.S instead said it was self defence. Now between farouk and Israel who is the real terrorist, mind you farouk is just an attempt,


Do you believe in the verse in suratul baqra that says 'fight them (disbeliever) the way they fight you and transgress not' how do you explain this, in Iraq and afghanistan the invaders massacre innocent civilian in the name of fighting insurgents, the jihadist point of view believe that the verse is since they kill our civilian we too will kill their civilian,'fight them the way they fight you'. What do you say to it and what is the criterial that makes it unislamical, thank you

Pls no insult, am here to learn and by Allah if your explanation is eloquent i shall heed to it.

Wa alaikum salam,
Yes, there may be oppression and massacre of innocent souls in Iraq and Afghanistan, that definitely does not make an haram become halal. It's like somebody having a good intention and using wrong methodology. Methodology is an important as intention in Islam, from the littel I know. I have not seen Islamic material that sanctions suicide bombing or killing innocent souls. If anything, we are warned strongly against suicide. Even when somebody is in serious pain from injury, it is not permitted to kill oneself, remember the case of a man during the lifetime of the prophet(SAW) that killed himself because(i.e committed suicide) he was in pain, and the prophet(SAW) said he was in hellfire. That is how grievous suicide is in Islam, not to talk of terminating innocent lives.

Pray, were the Delta fight passengers the ones killing innocent souls in Iraq and Afghanistan?


We should not hesitate to call a wrong for what it is. Discussing the oppression in Afghanistan and Iraq is another thing, and does not justify Farouk's actions.

Allah knows best.

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=373507.msg5219044#msg5219044 date=1262201354]Why isn't my name there and who are those users up there? [/quote]This woman takes herself so seriously. That's how she went ahead to open a thread for most popular nairalander, putting her name in the poll. Cheap publicity stunt.

Sorry, we didn't nominate based on useless threads one opens.