₦airaland Forum

From the look of things and as a man, the mum is wrong, she should have discuss this with the son. it is the son that brought this lady, not the mum, she has no power to do what she did, she was wrong, except she wants to or she is married to the son.

Am Married, anybody that comes to my house no-matter the relationship, you're a stranger and you have no right to decide in my house. whether you like it or not, you have to abide on what you see or ,

In addition, if in-case the son gets married to this lady how do you think the family will be? will there be peace between the parties involve? we all should let our mothers know that; when they come our house, whosoever, whatever the see they should let it be or they ask their child what they don't understand.

"sosongo k'mkpanutong"

Indirect Campagne

SOME of the major aspirants for various offices in the 2011 elections have moved from one party to another in the search for acceptable platform. The ease with which they moved and adjusted in their new party is an indication that there is to differentiate one political party from another, writes Assistant Editor OLAYINKA OYEBODE

IT is 11 years since the Fourth Republic was founded. At inception, it held out much promise and the three political parties were seen as the vehicle to lead the country to democracy. Today, a lot has changed. Since the beginning of the dispensation little to differentiate one political party from another.

This is a clear departure from what obtained in the First Republic when the major political parties of the era- Action Group (AG), Northern People’s Congress (NPC), National Council of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC) and the Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU), had clear –cut ideological positions, which they pursued vigorously both at the party level and at the level of governance. One of the major causes of the split in the AG was ideology. While Chief Obafemi Awolowo adopted democratic socialism, the Akintola faction was opposed to it. Zik and the NCNC opted for pregmatic socialism while the NPC was conserctive.

The five prominent political parties in the Second Republic also had some ideological posturing which reflected in the content and character of the parties. In the Third Republic, where for the first time, the country experimented with two party structure, and which were registered by the government, there were some distinction in the policies and ideologies of the two parties- The Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the National Republican Convention (NRC). The government itself described one as a little to the left and t he other as a little to the right.

Many believe that that was the last time political parties in the country truly operated along ideological line. For, the experience with five political parties under the transition programme of the late General Sani Abacha did not allow for any clear cut ideology, since the five were established to serve one purpose-adoption of the late ruler as consensus presidential candidate.

When the General Abubakar Abdusalami transition kicked off with the registration of political parties in 1998, efforts were made by different political camps to register parties that would have distinct ideological standing. But , somehow, the first three major parties that were registered did not have much distinction, as the focus was on political parties with centrist approach.

Many believe that the foundation for the faulty ideological base for the parties was as a result of the manner of their evolution. Both the All People’s Party (APP) and Alliance for Democracy (AD) were formed by politicians who were also part of the formation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). They only added and subtracted a few clauses from the manifest and constitution of the PDP to the APP and AD.

By the time more political parties were registered in 2003 and the massive registration of over 50 political parties ahead of the 2007 election, ideology had been thrown overboard as a matter of exigency.

Many believe this is responsible for the ease with which politicians now move from one platform to another without any feeling of remorse, or inconvenience.

The trend started at the National Assembly where some AD lawmakers were lured into the ruling PDP ahead of the 2003 election. The inability of the 1999 Constitution to curb the trend encouraged the development.

There were instances when national chairmen of political parties even defected to other political platform. For instance, a one time national chairman of APP, Alhaji Mahmud Waziri was made a Special Adviser in the PDP government of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, another chairman of the party, Chie Alani Bankole is at present a chieftain of PDP. In similar pattern, a founding member of PDP, Chief Edwin Ume –Ezeoke, later became national chairman of ANPP. That was after a brief stint in the United Nigeria Peoples Party (UNPP). The list is endless.

Correspondingly, the list of aspirants who have moved parties in the last few years is endless. It includes some presidential aspirants, and countless governorship and National Assembly aspirants. Many seem to have an uncanny manner of jumping ship at the slightest provocations, they lose their movement on exigency.

Many would say however that the spate of defection of politicians in the last 11 years merely reflect the level of desperation with which many of them pursue public office. Whichever way it is assessed, it is certain that the development is a reflection of the character of the current political dispensation.

Muhammadu Buhari
Former Head of State and two-time presidential candidate of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), General Muhammadu Buhari joined the party ahead of the 2003 general elections and emerged the presidential flag bearer of the party, where he led the party to a second position to the PDP. Having sustained his popularity among the party leaders and followers, Buhari again emerged the ANPP presidential flag bearer in 2007 and contested against former President Umaru Yar’Adua.

He raised objections to the election which returned the late Yar’Adua as President, until the Supreme Court in a split decision, ruled in favour of the late President.

The negative disposition of the ANPP leadership under Chief Ezeoke to his petition while it lasted, was said to have informed his decision to ditch the party. The party practically left him mid way into the petition because of its involvement in the Government of National Unity, which the PDP whose idea was proposed by the PDP –led government.

Buhari subsequently started working with other politicians of like minds for the possibility of floating another broad based opposition party. The development led to his romance with the promoters of the Mega Party, where he was a major stakeholder before the arrangement went awry.

The former head of State, later floated the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and will be contesting the 2011 presidential election on its ticket.

Atiku Abubakar
Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, had within the last three years moved from PDP to Action Congress (AC) and back to the ruling party, where he is presently seeking the party’s ticket to contest the 2011 presidential election.

While the former number two man was hounded out of the ruling party in 2006, at the peak of his feud with the then President Obasanjo. He found solace in the AC, which offered him its ticket for the April 21, 2007 presidential election.

Abubakar, like Buhari also pursued his petition against President Yar’Adua to the Supreme Court before the apex court ruled in favour of the late president. Owing to his case at the tribunal, the AC could not participate in the GNU, but as soon as the case was over, Abubakar started exploring avenues to return to the PDP. He eventually ditched the AC earlier in the year and formally rejoined the PDP on whose platform he hopes to realize his presidential ambition.


Chris Okotie
Pastor of the Household of God and founder of the Fresh Democratic Party (FDP), Rev Chris Okotie ran for the presidency on the platfrom of the Justice Party (JP) in 2003. He later established the FDP on which platform he contested the 2007 presidential election. he has again emerged the candidate of the party for the 2011 presidential election.

Isa Yuguda
Governor of Bauchi State, Mallam Isa Yuguda, who is currently seeking a re-election to the seat he first won in 2007, had contested the election in 2007 on the platform of the ANPP. He defeated the PDP to ascend the seat. Midway into his administration, the former minister consolidated his marriage to one of the daughter of the late President Yar’Adua, in what many regarded as a ‘political arrangement’. He later cemented the relationship with the first family by defecting to the ruling PDP. His deputy who refused to defect along with him to PDP was impeached, but was later restored following judicial intervention. Having picked up the PDP nomination form, there is a possibility of the governor, competing against his deputy, who is also seeking the governorship seat on ANPP platform.


Mahmud Shinkafi
Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Mahmud Shinkafi, like Yuguda, was also elected into office on the platform of ANPP, before defecting to PDP mid way into his tenure. Ahead of his coming to PDP, Shinkafi had also married the daughter of former military President Ibrahim Babangida. Shinkafi is currently seeking a second term ticket on the platform of PDP.

Ikedi Ohakim
Imo State governor Ikedia Ohakim came to power on the platform of the Progressives Peoples Alliance (PPA), having defected from the PDP ahead of the 2007 election. He later rejoined the PDP, on which platform he is seeking re-election as Imo State Governor. Former President Obasanjo drowned whatever justification the youthful governor would have had for his defection , when he told a crowd of PDP supporters in Owerri that the party had obtained a promise from the governor that he would return to the ruling party after his election. Not a few people were jolted by the revelation.

Theodore Orji
Like Ohakim, Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State was elected governor in 2007 on the platform of PPA. He along side some PDP members had left the ruling party to join PPA at inception. His predecessor in office and founder of PPA, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, had shown preference for him and went out of his way to ensure his success at the poll. But the two soon fell apart and when persecution arose in the PPA, Orji sought for solace and found one in the All progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) which welcomed him to its fold with pomp and pageantry. The romance did not last long, as the governor headed for the PDP shortly after his former principal, Kalu, rejoined the ruling party. Many believe the governor ditched APGA for PDP in order to avert being rubbished by the ruling party. He has since picked the PDP nomination form ahead of the party’s primary.

Abiola Ajimobi
Senator Ajimobi was a prominent member of the AD in 1999, on which platform he got elected into the Senate. When a section of the party joined other groups to form AC in 2006, he was a front runner for the party’s Oyo State governorship ticket. He left the AC in protest against the selection process and secured the governorship ticket of the ANPP for the governorship election in 2007. He lost to the incumbent Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala and pursued the case to the Court of Appeal, which upheld Alao-Akala’s election.

He is back in ACN now and is seeking nomination for the 2011 governorship contest.

Ibikunle Amosun
Renowned accountant and former PDP member of the Senate, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, sought for the party’s nomination for the 2007 governorship election but lost out. He later joined ANPP on which platform he contested and lost the 2007 governorship election in Ogun State. He has since ditched ANPP and joined ACN on which platform he is seeking nomination for the 2011 governorship election.

Ayo Fayose
Former Ekiti governor and now a senatorial aspirant of the Labour Party (LP) in the state. Fayose was elected governor of the state in 2003, but was impeached in 2006 in a controversial manner. He later teamed up with the AC during the Ekiti State rerun governorship election in 2009. Prior to that, he had identified with the PPA.

He formally joined the LP earlier in the year and is seeking the party’s nomination for the governorship ahead of the 2011 election.

Femi Pedro
Former deputy governor of Lagos State, Chief Femi Pedro, sought the governorship ticket of the AC for the 2007 election before leaving for the LP on which platform he contested and lost the 2007 Lagos governorship election.

The former bank chief later joined the PDP on which platform he will be contesting the 2011 governorship election

Mohammed Kumalia
Hon Kumalia was ANPP member of the House of Representatives between 1999 and 2007 and was the Minority Leader. He made an unsuccessful bid for the party’s governorship ticket in Borno for the 2007 election , but lost out. He later defected to AC on which platform he contested the governorship election. Today, he has again, moved to the PDP in search of the governorship ticket for the 2011 poll.

http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/politics/15909.html

If there were to be a Nigerian dream, would its story have been one of a faulty start and a clumsy run? Right from the time of independence, Nigeria has been seen more as a geographical entity than a nation. The sectional crisis and tribal jingoism that have ravaged the country from the early years have succeeded in painting an image of a divided house. That was the reason the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, said Nigeria should break into separate sections of Christian and Muslim nations. Some of our leaders called him ‘mad" in response.

With the Boko Haram crisis, ceaseless Niger Delta militants’ attacks, epidemic outbreaks, electoral violence, unending abductions and kidnaps; one may be forced to agree that we are yet to truly convince the world of our sanity.

What will it cost us to have a dream of our own? A dream nurtured and powered by our own reasoning and the intellects of the various tribes occupying the geographical entity called Nigeria?

Even if it will take the form and shape of the American dream - we can still have one.

If there were to be a Nigerian dream, it should be one fuelled with passion, grace and vigour. A dream in which people are recognised not by their birth or fortuitous circumstances but by dint of hardwork.

If there were to be a Nigerian dream, its substance must be that of a land in which life will be better and fuller for everyone. A place where opportunities abound for those who are wise enough to know and bold enough to take daring steps. What efforts will it take to build a society where men and women would be able to attain the fullest stature of that which they are innately capable of? Nigeria is indeed a land of extreme and remarkable contrasts.

The Nigerian dream should not be that of big machines, big cars or Nollywood red carpets alone. We need a vision and strategic plan that will be all encompassing, a place where education is not neglected for ephemeral things. Constantly trying to find answers to questions like "what will become of our future should the West finally find an alternative to oil?"

Let’s dream a dream where womanhood holds virtues and femininity is a pride. A dream where girls won’t bow to economic pressures by becoming dominatrices, draining their fathers of energy that would have been put to good use for the sake of posterity.

To achieve this dream, we the youth must purge ourselves of the infirmities which present circumstances have lured us to. We must be ready to make sacrifice by depriving ourselves of some needs so as to save the future of a country that hasn’t offered us much.

So let us begin anew with democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope as ideals. At 50, our level of development reveals that we are still a giant on mosquito legs, but it is not too late to make changes. In the words of JF Kennedy, "civility is not a sign of weakness and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate." Let us always bear in mind Mahatma Gandhi’s words: "The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice."

With gut and God, we can create the Nigeria of our dream. So shall we rise!

http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/education/campus-life/15360.html

sessy2:
you had better disqualify all of them becos they are a bunch of rogues and Megalogamaniac thieveries. if they meet correct oyibo man dat has money they'll sell Nigeria and share d money becos dats what they are good at. they are all bloody Nicompus and a bunch of Nonentities who call themselves our leaders.

All this ex-criminals should be stopped, non of them has good intention for this country, before OBJ left, he sold Bakkassi to Cameroon, now IBB is coming; only god knows if he is coming to sell the entire Niger Delta 

When the latest crime of kidnapping came to the fore in Nigeria, many did not see it as a serious criminal act instead those who ought to have thought out a way of nipping it in the bud, slept off for the seed of kidnapping to germinate.

I remember calling on the Obasanjo government to wade into it and see how to stop it. It was when top politicians were recruiting young men to follow their convoy with arms as personal thugs and guards, at this time, the Niger Delta insurgency had not taking off, but no sooner had these politicians won their elective offices, than they laid off these boys since they have no need of their services any longer and their services were being replaced with government security agencies as their official guards.

The enlightened and educated ones among them did not feel betrayed but were fast to re-fashion a new way for their survival which was the struggle for the emancipation of their home land the Niger Delta, and so began the struggle known as the movement for the emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).

The little firearms they had was insufficient for such a struggle and they saw the foreigners who came to their land to extract oil as interlopers who must be dealt with by abduction for a ransom. As they were intensifying their abduction system, so they were they also moving to the high sea to seize ships and the arms used on board. As their activities began to prosper, other gang leaders emerged with their own gangs and many of the boys were unemployed Ibo youths who hitherto were school outs, and as some of them were already in the robbery , they fathom out that the new crime was more gainful and less hazardous than robbery.

In robbery, there is the slim tendency for a confrontation with security agency than in kidnapping. In robbery, apart from the fact that you have succeeded in carting away money from a bank or a house, you may still not escape or go scot free and your mind can only be at rest when you get to your hide out. While in kidnapping it can be a sail through for the gang from the beginning of the operation to the end. No wonder after the Yar'Adua's presidential amnesty granted to all the militants, many of them who were natives of the old eastern states only signed their names but did not wait for other parts of the programme before trouping back to their states in Anambra, Enugu, Imo, Abia and Eboyin to regroup and commence their operations.

It was the sporadic growth of kidnapping that attracted those in authority, especially when VIPs were kidnapped and ransom collected. When there is a kidnap incident there are the possibilities that someone witnessed it, even in the remotest area of the country. Most kidnap cases are carried out on our roads and not in our homes. There is no road that is virtually deserted in any village or town in Nigeria. One therefore wonders why Nigerians love to keep sealed lips to perpetrated crime like robbery, rape, kidnap and so on. If the truth must be told, there are average populations of over 1.5million law enforcement agencies in Nigerian, all scattered all over the federation. That is when you line them up as the Nigeria Police, Armed Forces-Army, Navy and Air-Force, SSS, Customs, Immigration, NDLEA, EFCC, ICPC, FRSC and Civil Defense Corps etc.

That everyone is pointing accusing fingers at the Nigeria Police Force, shows the extent cooperation has declined among them. It is very unfortunate that majority of their security activities are not coordinated and so, one can solidly say that there is no coordinated strategic approach among these agencies to prevent crime in all facets of the country. One major reason why they join the civilians to blame the police for the crime of kidnap is because each of these law enforcement agencies does what it feels it's supposed to do.

The truth is that where there is no cooperation in a family, and then the center cannot hold. One can clearly observe that others are happy when the police is being wiped by the civil rights and the media, for a misdemeanor that should have been jointly avoided. All have what criminologists would describe as protectionist tendencies and approach to their job and care less about cooperation. No wonder they are all reactive in their approach rather than being proactive, this is why it is difficult for the country to have a centralized evaluation body where collated crime statistics are analyzed for the betterment of all the law enforcement agencies and the nation as a whole. Then law enforcement community is a family and when a part of the body is affected all is automatically affected.

The truth is that every part of the human body does what is not only beneficial but in the interest of the whole. It is that same system of cooperation that should exist among law enforcement agencies in Nigeria because when one is being antagonized, it means all is antagonized.

http://www.npf.gov.ng/news/?newsid=44

is this computerized machine still available?

Please any information about this 2 movies, am in need of their next season

Guyz, this seems to as a man breeding a lion in his house, the level of disaster awating such house is high, this is against the Human Laws of Marital Safety,

Some say hardcore, some says security reason while some says uniform beauty, but all I can say is that "na the thing wey de sweet sick person for mouth na him wey him dey chop die"

Guys put ur heads straight, if incase u don't just know what and how to marry u can kindly and honourable abide by the rules of pay-as-you-go.

sosongo ke mkpangutong,

wow, guyzs, to me this seems like breeding a lion, the risk is high, some guyz de imagine hard core, what if you are not able to play the hardcore game no-be hard punch u go receieve? this thing no go work @all, u fit perform today tomorrow u slag and u will not be forgiven for that.


any guy were want marry and go to bed with 2 eyes, make him look for better ekaette,

This Commander-in-chief-of-kidnappers should be worried about the level of insecurity in the state, not online news.

In addition, The said UK office; Akwa Ibom State now wants to have their own Embasey and the Ambasador will be Amb. Idongesit Nkanga (Esq).

Confused state, lol

Holi moses, what is the price of this computerize3d machine

, Durex or Karex

@ larryshow4

I did like Acura, but if you have one send the pictures and price to johnwellconsult@msn.com.

Thanks

, what is the cost of this computerized machine?

This is the result of Jealosy and Unforgiveness in the side of men

Need Honda Legend 3.5 (2000 - 2003) for urgent purchase, contact me if you got one,

There's nothing to be positive about, lets face the reality,,,, Naija is our country and we know what her leaders are up to,, I pray this should be real, but am scared this could be the Season II of The National Flying Coffin , whatever the case maybe, the end shall tell, but as for me, I can't fly,