₦airaland Forum

lanrexdo: I knew that there was going to be a clash over the presidency especially that Atiku. He has nothing meaningful to offer. You cant just come from no where and claim the Ticket. The reason the merger of CPC and ACN was successful was because acn had no presidential aspirant and cpc under GMB want to add to his own vote.. So you can't just come from no where and steal GMB's dream. I guess at the end of the day, Mr Atiku will port to another party because that is what he does. He wants the presidential ticket by fire by force. It should have been GMB that should have announced first for his presidential ambition not Atiku. They want to have unlimited power,fame and wealth. That is the highest they can ever attain when you become the president of country. They have both tasted power and know how it feels. they want to continue the large life of lawlessness. That is all i feel about this so call people who wants to be Nigeria Top Boss. The only person i have seen who has a dream for this country is GMB. The rest are just bunch of senseless people who wants nothing but power and loot our already damaged economy dry.

shymexx: Sorry, the text in bold cracked me up, and I just had to laugh.

You're definitely a crinkum-crankum!

hercules07: Nigerians think like something else, we are of little strategic interest to the US, New York's GDP is 3 times our own, when you are of little use to the US, they will go moral on your behind when selling things to you, the funny thing is, the US can be a destabilising force in almost all parts of the world, but, they have always had good intentions for Nigeria.

Aigbofa: The idea if Islamic state has been around since the time of Al Zarqawi, the leader of Al qaeda in Iraq who was killed by the United States. It did not start with the Syrian Opposition. The leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was a protege of Al Zarqawi.

GuyFawkes: The whole story just doesn't add up, I don't believe the Nigerian govt intended to get any chinook helicopters, since when did it become a priority to acquire transport helicopters to fight insurgents within our borders?

The helicopter costs between $18-25m depending on the variant and modifications , the UK bought 14 chinooks for $1bn couple of years back so either used or new I doubt Nigeria would spend that much on transport helicopters when their assault rifles,fighter jets and attack helicopters are almost obsolete.

major466: OMG!!!!!!!!!!!
You cited the above as your examples?! You know what? I give up!
Just go and drink some tea and enjoy yourself. The amount of underground info about covert operations on foreign politics at my disposal will be too much for your brain to handle.

Billyonaire: It is easy to believe USA and disbelieve our Presidency, after all we believe the Bible and Koran more than our native gods. After all, they have white skin and our President is black. When are we gonna learn of America's antics ? 6 months ago, US send arms to 'Moderate Syrian Opposition', now that same group is called ISIS. Before then Lybia rebels were funded, and that's where the arms come from.

Make we hear word jare.

4lashyme: You are very correct. these technologies are not hidden. they are in every science textbooks and most of our good lecturers know it. they're just expensive for one person or goup of people to fund and develop alone. All it requires is a national commitment to millitary R & D. i've always seen this [BH, Ebola, western attitude, even war] coming long before now. Even when our leaders are romancing them [western leaders], i see them laughing over our shoulders like we're one big slowpoke of a country. But then, it's not too late. we have to develop real national policy on millitary development to stop the emberassment. Nigeria with her population, resources, real/potential wealth, real/potential power is too big to be buying millitary hardware in this fasion. It's a national insult and [b]our govt [/b]should see it that way and make sure it never happens again in our history.

Symphony007: Goodluck jonathan, his government and party are a band of grotesque liars!! The same man spouting lies about the u.s government to cover up obvious corruption and theft sat across the president of the united states in the UN security council chamber and heaped praise upon him for "all his help for nigeria in our fight against terrorism".... If he claimed the u.s ban us from procuring weapons, how is that help? Why did'nt he raise that issue in the council. Lairs!! They have orchestrated an elaborate cover up from the presidency to the national assembly. They should continue, nigeria is not my business.

san316: Did u read the DHQ press release? They said he was shot in the leg and then captured. The NA used him to get the other terrorist to come out when they made him call them to announce that he had captured konduga. Thence, the soldiers laid ambush on the approaching bh members who were jubilating over their supposed victory. After eliminating the bh members, Shekau tried to escape and he was shot dead. This didn't seem to me like a crossfire but an execution.

millionaireman: In every country with Islamic terrorism, there are underlying political and economic causes. Locals fund the aggression before, and if ever, foreigners come to assist the aggressing terrorists. Boko Haram is like that. Stop globalizing terrorism. Or why are all countries in the world not attacked by Islamic terrorists? The Emirs and Islamic clerics under attack in northern Nigeria are those who openly condemn Boko Haram's violent method to achieve what most Muslims in Nigeria may pray for - Nigeria governed as an Islamic Sharia country. The US has been fighting Islamic terrorism all over the world all the time Boko Haram has been dealing serious blows on Nigeria. Boko Haram formed after far north's adoption of sharia criminal codes. The adoption was seen then by many as a form of protest aimed to stiffle Olusegun Obasanjo administration. However, you may wish to continue with your conspiracy theories about genesis and progress of Boko Haram. But truth is that Boko Haram was formed by Nigerians to enforce a government in Nigeria that can implement strict Islamic practices all over Nigeria. You may even wish to tell that Boko fighters are non Nigerians (as if you are addressing children), afterall, it is people like you that believe George Bush and other US right wingers conspired and unleashed 9/11 terror against theIr country, despite overwhelming evidences pointing to the perpetrators and acceptance by them.

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Thank you. It's amusing there are still people who believe northerners are killing themselves! What Boko haram is doing is systematic religious cleansing. Most of the areas been attacked are predominantly christian dominated and that's what they set out to achieve. Their mission is two-facet; to Islamise Nigeria using the northeast as a starting point and in the process, make the entire country ungovernable for the sitting president. The few Muslims who were caught in the onslaughts were the ones seen as obstacles to the realisation of their objectives and that explain why majority of northern elders had been either pro-boko haram or sitting on the fence.

OLADD: [color=#006600][/color]

Thank you. It's amusing there are still people who believe northerners are killing themselves! What Boko haram is doing is systematic religious cleansing. Most of the areas been attacked are predominantly christian dominated and that's what they set out to achieve. Their mission is two-facet; to Islamise Nigeria using the northeast as a starting point and in the process, make the entire country ungovernable for the sitting president. The few Muslims who were caught in the onslaughts were the ones seen as obstacles to the realisation of their objectives and that explain why majority of northern elders had been either pro-boko haram or sitting on the fence.

millionaireman: I have never held the belief that APC sponsors Boko Haram, but sure, APC PROFITS FROM Boko Haram violence; furthermore, people whose public statements and actions are in sympathy with the cause of Boko Haram - sharia-governed Nigeria - are in top level mostly in APC. I shall not insult you back because I am not of the garbage class.

millionaireman: So it is a must that GEJ must rule till 2019? I have been his supporter like you, but today he surprised me with his statement about foreign sponsorship of BH. Does GEJ live in Nigeria or on the moon?

onyfrank: oh! Who knows

dasparrow: All this sermon is highly unnecessary and the insults show your lack of maturity. He has a right to his opinion. Not everyone is an azz kisser to America like you are. Perhaps, you were living a poverty-stricken life in Nigeria before americans allowed you live in their country. So right about now, you must kiss their azz in order to score brownie points. For your information, it takes an arrogant person to know one. If you think you made any sense with your long sermon, think again. Every nairalander is entitled to his/her opinion no matter how crazy their opinion might sound to you. If you cannot stand other people's opinion and want to burst an artery, then I suggest you log out of the internet and find yourself something worthwhile to do. It ain't that serious!

Nimoomosuli: My dear brother, part of the duties and responsibilities of any sensible government should be ensuring good hygiene among the populace and that should be by 'teaching' them or canvassing proper sanitation or good personal hygiene such as simple act like hand washing. Doing so will not only safe the government from the needs to regularly deal with pandemics such as Ebola but also the entire community would be healthy as many infectious diseases are known to transmit mostly through the hands. I think the issues of poor hygiene and improper sanitation in Nigeria, which is allowing infectious diseases and others like malaria to thrive should be of concern to us more than saying someone is getting 'inebriated' that government is teaching us hand washing by inviting lethal virus.

ocelot2006: I beg to differ. Yes some warlords handed over their weapons during the amnesty, but the programme itself lasted for a few months. What followed was the systematic destruction of militant supply points and safe houses and arrest/termination of these criminals. In Delta, the JF captured CAMP 9 and where able to secure a considerable length of the swamps. PHC was even way worse. Anyone who lived in PHC in September, 2007 will tell you that the very month was the turning point in the battle against the militants and cultists. The raid in September saw the use of the just acquired Mi 35 Hinds, special forces, and JTF against these groups. Even Ateke was almost killed in a raid on his hotel. What followed next was also the seizure of assets owned by militants.

deji68: sorry ooo i didnt know u are one of those who believe "buying a super weapon off the shelve, press some button and the war is over"....let me take u away from ur paradise ..before we find buyers for the presidential jet, ur spouse will all be wearing Taliban Hijab and there will be no internet, nairaland,..... ur wonderful contribution on nairaland will be a thing of the past(freedom of speech) ..I think we are winning the war that is why there is lot of ranting BH sympathizers around...God will continue to protect our Gallant Soldiers

Amya: You shouldn't call me a fool because you want to make your point. That's really low.

mojeer678: You still don't get it?

When you call something 'a conspiracy theory' or 'a conspiracy website', it shows your low mental level and 'extreme irrationality' of those who prefer to 'label' rather than analysing the issues confronting their worldview. If you chose to deride a 'freelance journalist' as 'highly biased' without providing the reasons for such conclusion, then you must be very confused.

If your definition of the 'real' journalists are those who like fawning over GEJ or Deziani or BRF or BAT or those rising oligarchs in the country or whoever is controlling the purses in any economic sector for your daily dosage of 'news', then I could only pity you. The media really only has but one purpose and that is to inform the public.The rest is just fluff. The ones crowding the available space have failed miserably at their job. They are owned by vested interests. And that's where independent journalists exist. They are not owned. They are not afraid of offending any establishment sensibilities which are often in conflict with reporting the truth. If a person is a freelance, does it mean that his reports are not to be taken at a face value?

Continue exposing your ignorance, it makes for some comedy in an otherwise a serious topic and you can continue with the abuses and insults. Indeed the more virulent the abuse, the more I realise that GenBuhari and I are right, since abuse is the resort of those who have no arguments.

Meanwhile, Why no Ebola pictures?

A serious question must be raised about this current outbreak - why no pictures of classic Ebola? If this outbreak is real, and this is Ebola at all, it is so radically altered from it's earlier type that it is effectively not the same bug at all. Clearly, what we are seeing with this outbreak is not normal Ebola.

Do a dated Google search of the Ebola outbreak. Set Google to only recall pictures from the last month or so. You will discover that there is not one photo of Ebola with this outbreak, with all photos of real Ebola being drop ins from past outbreaks. That is really enough to make me think that there either might not be an outbreak of Ebola, or that if there is, it is not the normal Ebola from the past. If people are dying (the latest number is 2400) it is not classic ebola doing this. At any rate, the death rates are taking an exponential curve now according to the WHO, if this is even real at all.

In light of the fact that there are no pictures from this outbreak, I would like people to consider something

Consider that even in Africa there are cell phone cameras and internet. Why no Ebola photos? In fact, Liberia and Sierra Leon are English speaking countries, so any photos posted would be listed as Ebola, in English which would make it easy to find them in English. Why are we seeing NADA? Even Al Jazeera's "Ebola, In Pictures" does not show JACK, if they really put it in pictures SOMETHING, ANYTHING should be there. Instead, there is NADA.

The fact that quarantines are now supposedly in place cannot account for the lack of photos, because a cell phone can send a picture out of a quarantine zone. Liberia is almost entirely wireless now, with almost 70 percent of Liberians having cell phones, and there are 4 cell phone companies there. Though only 7 percent of Liberians have internet, the rest can get on the web with cyber cafe's, and there would no doubt be a few in the quarantine zone, WHY NO EBOLA PICTURES THEN? If there was a disaster in progress you can bet SOMEONE, ANYONE, EVEN AN AMERICAN DOCTOR WHO WORKED THIS would have gotten a shot of Ebola out of there, with the classic symptoms. And Sierra Leon may not be as well off communication wise, but there are still more than 2 million cell phones there. Something stinks with this, reality on the ground is obviously not matching what the media is saying.

And there is another problem to address with all of this - and that is that the people in the Ebola zone do not believe there is an Ebola outbreak. One would think that if Ebola was real, that in Africa, where people still talk and rumors spread by word of mouth and almost 70 percent of the people have cell phones in Liberia that even one case of Ebola would cause such a ruckus that they would not need the WHO to tell them something is going on. The fact that the people there do not believe it is real stands as a serious red flag.

So the question is then, is this Ebola outbreak just a false flag setup for forced vaccinations?

I am seriously questioning if that is in fact the case. Millions of Liberian cell phone cams surely suggest it. All the Ebola photos that are associated with this outbreak show body bags and hospital wards with people who could be there for anything, there are no bleeding eyes and ears, no blistered arms, NOTHING showing at all from this outbreak, which if it was real should have been the most well documented and published of all. No other outbreak has matched this one in size, and no other outbreak happened with such a presence of the ability to document it. The lack of photographic proof in hard set terms is damning, it really does look like it could all be a ruse

And how can you have an outbreak THAT BIG have no confirmed cases outside of the hot zone? Quite frankly, the stories of American doctors getting cured are lies, because Ebola blows people away for months if not years because Ebola causes serious organ damage, and the doctors are already out and about, playing Tennis and Golf. They did not have Ebola.

Source: http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/

Liekiller: Your source: another american conspiracy website. You rely on a highly biased "freelance journalist" for medical and biological facts? Sorry, but that says it all. Why on earth don't you get information from virologists before copy-pasting such nonsense? They actually know what viruses do and don't do. This writer obviously doesn't.

mojeer678: New Ebola vaccine will be worthless

With 368 mutations already found, there will be no vaccine that will work. Any pushing of an ebola vaccine will be for something other than providing immunity for Ebola, and for anyone who is aware of the recent CDC bust of vaccine links to autism, that "other" is not likely to be good.
It may not even be Ebola at all, and is likely to instead be some sort of engineered hybrid.

Prior to this outbreak, Ebola had a very high genetic stability and remained unchanged through multiple outbreaks. In fact, Ebola has been so stable that it was considered remarkable for this. Why then, with this outbreak, are there so many mutations of this new type, when in past outbreaks NO mutations have been noted at all?

Additionally, this new outbreak has none of the characteristics of previous outbreaks.

There is something missing in this Ebola outbreak, and it is the bloody eyes and ears, and bleeding through the skin. This time all the bleeding is internal and nothing shows outwardly. All the bloody blistered skin photos on the web are from previous outbreaks, with this particular strain people look outwardly normal up until death and die from internal bleeding, vomiting up blood and having massive stools of black goo from internal bleeding. In this way, the new Ebola is mimicking Parvo in dogs, and I would at least tenuously bet that traditional Ebola has been merged in a lab with a different virus that is known for causing only internal bleeding, possibly parvo.

368 mutations in a previously stable virus screams BIO LAB

This is where things may go amiss. Previously, Ebola was a stable virus that could have had a predictable cure. The current strain is mutating so rapidly that if all the recorded cases were added up and divided by the number of mutations, each mutated strain would have only infected an average of 20 people. That is a phenomenal mutation rate, which will render any vaccine attempt useless.

And how could it have happened other than willful intent? The answer is obvious - a lab created this new strain, that lab did not have endless people to kill to prove their virus stable and they just let it go in live tests, out in the wild. And because it was not stable, they now have a mutating monster on the loose. That is the best explanation there could possibly be for why Ebola, which has remained stable as far back as records go, suddenly became a chameleon. This new bug is an unstable bioweapon, possibly more unstable than its creators intended.

Beware of history rewrites, which will provide plausible deniability for whoever did this.

Watch out for any news saying how Ebola mutates continuously without mentioning that prior to this outbreak Ebola was VERY STABLE, and question strongly WHY this new strain is so different from past strains, from outward symptoms, to incubation times, to mutation rates, it is all far too different for this to have happened naturally in a formerly stable virus. Someone did this and the question WHO DID THIS should be kept front and center until we get the answer. We know an American biowarfare firm was in this area "testing Ebola detection kits", I suggest people start with that.

There are very few pictures of people infected with this new strain, and none show the normal bleeding. Why?

Take a look at a google image search with all photos dated a year or more old, and compare them to a google image search of pictures dated to within the time frame of THIS OUTBREAK AND NOTICE THAT EVERYTHING OUT THERE FOR THIS OUTBREAK THAT IS RECOGNIZABLE AS EBOLA IS JUST A REPEAT OF OLD EBOLA PICTURES with anything new just showing people without any blisters.

Almost all of what we are seeing is body bags which show NOTHING, with all other pictures showing none of the classic symptoms. The picture to the left is a prime example, this man who reportedly is an Ebola victim is showing NOTHING that would indicate he ever had Ebola at all. So why is this so different? People in Africa could certainly publish pictures to the web, why then is all we are seeing is pictures of something that is obviously not normal ebola? Pictures dated to before this outbreak clearly show what ebola looks like, I challenge you to find any photo at all from this new outbreak that looks even remotely similar to traditional ebola.

The symptoms say it all:

Here are the symptoms from the current strain,
•Fever (greater than 38.6°C or 101.5°F)
•Severe headache
•Muscle pain
•Weakness
•Diarrhea
•Vomiting
•Abdominal (stomach) pain
•Lack of appetite

In other words, the current symptoms mimic the flu (except for the noted internal bleeding this outbreak has). Now for the classic ebola symptoms:
"After 3-4 days of non-specific symptoms and signs, patients typically experienced progressively severe sore throat, developed a maculopapular rash, had intractable abdominal pain, and began to bleed from multiple sites, principally the gastrointestinal tract. "

And the pictures of this current outbreak prove the classic ebola is not what we are dealing with this time around. The biggest thing in common is gastrointestinal bleeding.

Recovery times also indicate this new ebola is more like a souped up flu than ebola.

Usually, with ebola, recovery takes months and sometimes never happens completely because the liver, kidneys and other organs including the brain get damaged. Yet we see in the media pictures of ebola "survivors" that are up and about only two weeks after having it. This is not possible with real ebola, this outbreak really is more like a really bad flu than anything else.

The bottom line is that the symptoms are not consistent with classic ebola. Recovery times are too fast, and the current CDC list of symptoms does not match the old list except when the CDC combines the new list with the old list to muddy the water. Something is amiss with this, and the new vaccine can only be bogus with so many mutated variants. There is no way any vaccine can be real, we are dealing with a bioweapon this time around which makes that impossible, avoid any "vaccine" like you would the disease itself.

Source: http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/ebolanotnormal.html

dotmanz: Men can be funny..

We want to settle with decent and beautiful girl,
At the same time, we want to be attributed with a well ambitious woman with all the degrees..
But does it actually occur to us what a lot of ladies holding a prestigious position in the society has been through?
Do we take our time to check possibilities of some rapid achievements that sets our women on that pace?
The same achievement that took a man over 6 years to achieve, a pretty lady would appear from no where and knock it silly in lightening speed.. Hahahaha..
My good friends, we really have a complicated situations at hand
If only one of those ladies we admire so desperately due to their position and achvmnets can give a sincere accounts of what they went through in terms of sexual abuses and molestation, and sometimes voluntary acts of immorality and blunder, we would know convincingly that they are of no good but cursed.

A lady confessed to have allowed a man abused her sexually just for promotion. Infact, she allowed him used objects on her just for the man to hear her *morn and scream out of her se*xual appealing pretty face of a goddess. She eventually got promoted, and that's the definition for our supposed ambitious women.

Come to the level of our University ladies, it is easier for them to pass any course than answering phone calls..
It is so bad that the ugly situation celebrates itself, it happens from time to time even at employment level, a man can afford to deny his company of a first class graduate than let a pretty but incompetent woman slip through his bosom.

This pose a huge disparity in considering the appropriate candidate for marriage. We have pretty, eloquent, matured but morally rottened, ambitious, 2.1 grade degree holders in our society.

On the other hand, we have ladies with little or average education, well reserved, not eloquent, perceived to be less ambitious, morally upright with fear of God in all they do..

The choice is ours. But only the men of wisdom know which is best for them.

Let's go back to the bases and retrace our steps..

bukatyne: The problem is not marrying out of school or marrying young; we have Omotola a very typical example close to us (she married at 18)

The problem is forsaking your dreams (if you have) because of marriage or seeing marriage as a means to an end. She is saying you can be a mother, wife, grandma sef and still shake your world or do something fulfilling.

I think people miss it because they equate career & dreams into becoming a bank manager

Our dear Seun is an entrepreneur and I doubt he has a corporate office. He doesnot have to wear a suit daily to the office either.

we have people doing well in fashion, cobbling, dress making, production of stuffs, doing well in their various occupations etc.


@ Grandma in fifties, I doubt the marry in school part

My mum will be a grandma in her early fifties and she married out of school (But again, we both married early)

tpia1: humble beginnings dont really include trips and schooling in overseas imo. Not to mention well connected family.

Sacrifices? Maybe not having so much access to nigerian food overseas or or the other hand, enduring the harsh nigerian weather when not abroad.


All the aforementioned mean different things depending on social and economic status in nigeria.

MsNas: Sorry if I sound harsh, but it is absolutely not my fault that anybody's family cannot afford to pay for their education. I made my point from my own perspective and I didn't expect a gazillion lines of whines trying to prove me wrong neither did I expected to be crucified for it.

If you cared to read my post well enough, I pointed out that some women have ambitions which does not end in simply living in a man's house and popping out them tatas while some want other things including that. So what's the issue here? What don't I get?

Be aware, that you as a man, have absolutely no business with whatever I chose to do with my life and future. If I like, I have ambition, if I like I don't. so stop going all self righteous on me please. Again, I apologize if my post comes off as harsh or rude, but I see no reason why you'll just go H.A.M on my post and write that long-ass whatever you call it. Laters

tpia1: all the women are from rich, not poor homes.

being nigerian doesnt always automatically mean someone comes from a poor background. Majority do, but most of the VIPs do not.