₦airaland Forum

Caseless:
this made my day. God bless you and your family.


The ratio of dunderhead to intellect is very high in this country.

uncleiykeman:
No referendum! No election.

wingmanII:
You lack any iota of common sense. Read the link again. If the story was pro APC or Buhari you will not be looking for a circular but believe it outright. May your partisanship kill you. Animal

OAUTemitayo:
I don't expect better from a Buhari propagandist like you.

You will do anything to justify your pay.

PointB:
Enugu was effectively boycotted.

You'll only hear what you choose to hear, that's if you are not suffering from selective amnesia.

Disgracing IPOB is not same as defeating the ideology behind the movement. Don't confuse battles with war!

PointB:
That's a good question.

The ordinary people are already living under state of emergency, it the politicians that will be affected.

The politicians have taken the people for granted for too long. The propose boycott is simply a way of the people reminding them who the boss is.

Good politicians should empathize with the people and proffer solutions. Waiving their concerns/aspiration off with a wave of hand is condescending. It's hardly a proper way of dealing with highly educated and fiercely republicans in equal measure.

PrecisionFx:
Of there's no election in Anambra, The speaker of the state house of assembly will automatically becomes the governor.
Don't follow senseless people to argue trash.

PMBNG:
Anambra Election: PDP Senator Predicts What Will Happen To State If It People Refuse To Vote



http://headline.com.ng/anambra-election-pdp-senator-predicts-will-happen-state-people-refuse-vote/

PDJT:
You Nigerians are the terrorists. How many Biafrans have you killed to deny the people their right to self-determination? A million? Maybe 2 million? Nigeria harbors and supports terrorism all over the world; The Christmas pant bomber? The London Woolwich terrorists? Boko Haram? Fulani terrorists? The Nigerian-military Terrorists? The list is endless.

OAUTemitayo:
Stoppage of the Admission of Female Cadets, another reason to doubt "One Nigeria"

While we are still looking at slightest of chances to prove ourselves wrong that one Nigeria is a fallacy, the Northern mafias released another crude and hegemonic policy, stoppage of admission of female cadets into Nigerian Army.

The Nigerian state looks like it is heading for apartheid jungle.

Without regard to the right of Females from Southern part of the country to participate in the all combat actions of the army, the Nigerian Army has issued an order stopping the admission of Female Combat Cadets because Northern leaders complained.

Northern leaders and politicians threatened fire and hell because they said "Our males from the North cannot take orders from Infidels from anywhere" (apparently referring to the South)



Because of the conservative nature, history and culture of Northern Nigeria, our females from Southern Nigerian are now denied their right to serve their fatherland.

Begging questions have been left unanswered.

Who set the conditions for admission of military cadets? Northern Nigeria or the Army Council?

Why should the beliefs of Northern part of the country affect the chances of Southern Females?

Must we always please the Northern Hegemonic Class at the expense of the South?


If the north don't want their female children at the cadet camp, they can simply tell their daughters not to apply for cadet positions.

The Nigerian Army has proved consistently that it is a Northern Fort for oppressing helpless Southerners.

We have tolerated the sitting of almost all strategic military installations in the North all these while, now another insult has been thrown on our face.

Why should the North be the one to dictate the terms of operations of the Army that is supposed to be impartial?

We have not forgotten how Southern heroes of the civil war were edged out of the army or incapacitated.
The Colonel Iluyomades who stopped Biafra at Ore were discarded while a Muritala Muhammad who didn't see action at the Ore front took the praises.

We have not forgotten how Brigadier General Adekunle aka Black Scorpion who led the first modern amphibious landing in Africa war history was unceremoniously retired from the army.

We have not forgotten how General Ransome Kuti was demoted and imprisoned because Book Haram overran Bama while Northern Generals who ran away from Lake Chad villages were promoted.

Our Senators and governors from the South that are supposed to raise questions and demand the stoppage of such quite demeaning practices are busy globetrotting.

Is the Nigerian Army now the Northern Army??
Excerpts and Links


http://punchng.com/military-stops-admission-of-combatant-female-cadets/




OauTemitayo writes from Ife

Kenzico:
I wish that I can be like the cool rich kids!

iGISTMORE:
@GISTMORE

DJ Cuppy, the daughter of Billionaire oil mogul Femi Otedola, turned 25 on November 11th and threw a lavish ranch themed party at her father's mansion that was attended by her friends, musicians and all other rich kids in Lagos.

Nigerian Billionaire businessman, Aliko Dangote and Oil mogul, Femi Otedola are good friends and he decided to surprise his daughter DJ Cuppy by making a stop at her 25th birthday party in Ikoyi, Lagos.

Gist from GistMore
https://www.gistmore.com/photo-dj-cuppy-25th-bithday-party-billionaire-aliko-dangote-suprises

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midolian:
what has this got to do with the government? Most of you are hypocrites. Prove to us having an affair with an unmarried female colleague at work is against the Nigerian constitution..I mean what exactly has the IG done wrong? He had an affair with a junior colleague that has attained the age of consent (18)...Even though it takes two to make it work, you guys are still calling for his head.. Did he rape the lady? The fact that she had an affair with the IG does not mean she can never meet requirement for promotion. The brain is there, you guys should let it perform its duties. Think before you type and not the other way round.

As the IG rightly said, this is highly laughable

joeyfire:
Smallie if you want to argue go to the first post

joeyfire:
Today is 22 years since the Nigerian state killed Ken Saro-Wiwa on the allegation of murder of Ogoni Chiefs. Ken Saro-Wiwa was tried alongside other Ogoni leaders and citizens, including Mr. Ledum Mittee for allegedly instigating and killing their brothers. The death of those Ogoni chiefs was an unfortunate and unexpected turn of event, occasioned by intolerable disagreement on the strategies for the emancipation of Ogoni people.

This could be a case of what behavioral scholars call ‘predictable surprise’. With ‘hindsight bias’, one could say that the level of venom and angst in this strategic contention would definitely lead to epic tragedy. But, in the thrills of self-determination, no one would have expected the gruesome killing of those who disagreed.

Ken Saro-Wiwa was tried by a special military tribunal headed by the immediate Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, who was then a junior judge of the Federal High Court, Lagos. Other members of the tribunal were Col Ali, former Military Governor and now Comptroller General of Customs, and a senior judge from Cross River State whose name I can’t easily recollect. The trial was my closest and most insightful encounter with the Nigerian state.

I was a young lawyer, barely two years from the Law School, when Ken’s lawyer and my principal, Gani Fawehinmi, drafted me as co-counsel in the trial. The trial became a ruse to put away a very costly irritation to the Nigerian state. As one of the tribunal members explained to us, it was a strategic mistake that the Nigerian state did not deal ruthlessly with the Ogoni ‘insolence and provocation’ long ago. In his view, Abacha should have exterminated this irritation. But, nevertheless, General Abacha got around doing what a ruthless state gets to do: brutally put off the agitation.

The ‘persecution’ of the Ogoni leaders was expected but the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the other accused persons-minus Mittee- was a real surprise. Both Ken Saro-wiwa and Gani Fawehinmi knew the trial was a sham. As I explained to the Newsweek magazine, the Auta tribunal was a ‘hangman’s court’.

In fact, Ken Saro-wiwa, realizing that the trial was a predetermined extermination of the dangerous Ogoni agitation, counseled Gani Fawehinmi not to put up a defence on his behalf. In Ken’s view, the Nigerian state wanted to kill him after a sham trial whose only redemption would be that such high caliber lawyers represented him. Gani, understood that this Auta Tribunal was a ‘hangman’s court but countered that we needed to push the Tribunal to serial errors to discredit the trial. Thereafter, we would back down.

The defence strategy was delivered up to the hilt. We so exposed the tribunal’s bias and partiality that the envoy of the Law Society and the Bar Council in the UK wrote a damning report of the trail. The Report resulted in worldwide denunciation of the trial. But we missed an important point. Ken had asked me whether I thought Abacha would execute him after conviction and sentence (we knew that Auta and co would convict and sentence Ken and his comrades to death).

I painted scenarios and predicted that how Abacha would treat General Obasanjo and Yaradua, two eminent leaders he had convicted for coup plotting in another Kangaroo military tribunal, would determine his treatment of Ken & co. in my flawed thinking, I believed that if Abacha listened to international outcry and reduced the death sentence on Obasanjo and Yaradua to prison terms then we should be sure he would put Ken into prison and not to the gallows. Then, perhaps, Ken’s dream Nobel Prize could be on the way.

But we failed woefully. I did not reckon that the Ogoni struggle is a different kettle of fish. To the grand commanders of this unfair republic to challenge the unity of Nigeria (a euphemism for challenging the neo-feudal foundations of the Nigerian state) is the unpardonable sin. A coup plotter is pardonable. But the one who puts his hands against the Lugardian knots pays dearly. Ken Saro-wiwa paid the price for raising his voice in the manner in which Adaka Boro and the Biafran soldiers did. It is a legendary irony that Ken Saro-wiwa thoroughly deprecated Ojukwu and his comrades for foolishly rushing to self-determination instead of parleying with the Nigerian state that was already murdering Igbos.

He even called ‘Ojukwu ‘inglorious braggart’, and queried the wisdom of the Igbo struggle. He was not alone in this put-down of the Biafra insurrection. Prof Ali Mazrui seriously lampooned the poet, Chris Okigbo, for abandoning poetry and taking up arms to defend Biafra. I confronted Ken with this irony while he was in prison and he gave me a copy of his ‘On a Darkling Plain’ to debunk allegation of Igbo hatred. Obviously, he did not hate the Igbos. Like most of us he simply failed to see the body in the corpse until death hit home.

About 25 years after the Biafra revolt, Ken inspired a powerful Ogoni rebellion. About 22 years after the Ogoni rebellion was fiercely exterminated, the Nigerian army moved again to the east to quell another insurrection against the Nigerian state. The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) hoisted another flag of a separatist enclave (don’t forget that MOSSOP had Ogoni flag and Anthem). A young man, Nnamdi Kanu, who, like Ken Saro-Wiwa, is privileged with good education and quality of life, swore that he wanted either Biafra or death. Nnamdi Kanu thinks that his Igbo people are being enslaved in Nigeria.

Ken thought Nigeria turned Ogonis into hewers of woods and fetchers of water. Kanu believes that the problem of his Igbo people is that they are enslaved by the Fulani caliphate. Ken believed that the Nigerian military-business complex was imprisoning Ogoni people. Both of them wanted some kind of out.

The pacification of Ogoni was brutal and unfair. In the guise of restoring peace to a troubled land and bringing murderers to justice the Nigerian state brutalized Ogoni and dismantled one of the most vehement and revolutionary political agitations in Nigeria. In his written address to the tribunal Ken Saro-wiwa warned that if Nigeria rebuffed his peaceful agitation for environmental justice and political self-determination, it would contend with violent challenge to its iniquitous order. But Nigeria was not in the mood for reason. And as predicted, the Ijaws took over from where the Ogoni left. Militants swarmed the Niger Delta and forever changed Nigerian politics.

After Ken’s execution, a Nigerian journalist, Adewale Adeoye, and myself decided to publish a book on the Ogoni trial and the political future of Nigeria. In chapter 6 of the proposed book I argued that the future of Nigeria after Ken Saro-wiwa requires a rethinking of the federal system of government. I argued that until we reconceive the Nigerian state on the line of democratic citizenship, without subjecting the state to ethnic and religious competition and dominance, we could lose the nation. In mimicry of the fabled but failed nation-building project in Nigeria, we abandoned the book project. That was over a decade before the present feverish clamor of restructuring and the thunderous chant-down of ‘Nigerian unity is non-negotiable’.

Presumably, we have neatly dispatched off Nnamdi Kanu and his noisome pestilence through the ‘Operation Python Dance’, just the way we extirpated the Ogoni struggle through the Rivers State Internal Security Committee of dreaded Col Okuntimo. The clamor of the Biafran agitators has been drowned in the cacophony of bullets and martial law. We have cured the disease but multiplied the virus. As we ruthlessly fall down those who stand up to question the political fundaments of the Nigerian state and refuse to deal with the issues they raise, we continue to weaken the foundations of Nigeria’s sustainability.

The union grows weaker and weaker after each successful expedition. The Nigerian unity is more threatened today than in 1995 when Ken Saro-wiwa and his colleagues were hanged for asking inconvenient questions. Yes, we dealt with them neatly but we did not answer their queries. 22 years after we are still dealing ruthlessly with, perhaps, a much more inconvenient and insolent query: the new Biafra self-determination movement. It is now time to stop bolstering and bluffing, sit down and ask really difficult question: why does the nation has to be severely threatened every other decade? We can’t we secure the nation on something stronger than individual and group aggrandizement? Can’t we form a less imperfect union?

Dr Sam Amadi, former chairman and chief executive of Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), was a defence counsel to Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni leaders at the trial

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Ola514:
bros , i see you are more ignorant.

why can't government dialogue with them them instead of killing them

it could be your turn tomorrow

CHANNELStv2020:
INTIMIDATE US IN OUR OWN LANDNEVER YOU MUST BE INSANE, THE SILENCE OF A LION SHOULD NOT BE MISTAKEN, WE ARE IGBOS/BIAFRANS WITH OR WITHOUT NNAMDI KANU WE WILL GET THE JOB DONE,I WAS THERE LIVE N WE WERE READY FOR ANYTHING AT THAT MOMENT NOW GO N TELL JIBRIN THAT WE BIAFRANS SAY HE IS MAD AND UNEDUCATED.

Cedarseeds:
Please help I had to create a new account for this.

When I was 15, a man in our neighbourhood had sex with me. I was too confused and embarrassed to tell anyone about it. I didn't get pregnant. While growing up, I still remembered the incident and kept away from dating through out my university days.

I met my fiancé in 2014. Somehow I told him I was still a virgin when we were still getting to know ourselves. He asked me to marry him soon after. It seemed as if the main reason he wanted marriage was because he felt I was a decent girl and I didn't want him to find out after our wedding. I did some stuffs to my vagina and we had sex. It was like the whole process of deflowering again. He seemed satisfied.

The issue is that I feel scared starting my marriage on a lie. Standing before the priest when there's a secret between us. We've done the necessary intro. I don't know what to think anymore. Should I let him continue believing he's the only man I've been with?

egbej:
i have 10 years plus experience in banking,law
That interim order from the court is garbage
The commercial banks would throw in litigation against the fed govt soon and the court order would just be mere interim instrument with no locus standi,set aside and eventually vacated
The govt has no absolute right to ask hard working citizens to forfeit their hard earned money and in some cases their live savings.
Have they tought about deceased whose relatives couldn't get letter of admin to apply those funds,dormant account whose owners are outside the country and BVN center not available in some areas,sick people who are on wheels and can not undertake any actions
This shows how clueless and useless the current govt is.Why talking about forfeiture?why not even ask the bank to deactivate those accounts and move the funds to suspense account,dormant account etc
Banks have numerous GLs where unclaimed funds are warehoused,even some people have not collected their dividend warrants and such are posted into unclaimed funds GL
I think the present govt is looking for funds for the nest election and think they can play with peoples funds
By the time litigation begin to fly every where they will know its not easy to play with customer'S Funds

ijustdey:
•Over N100bn trapped in dead people’s account

•Next-of-kin: Our late father’s gratuity, savings affected

•’I’m yet to access our joint account since my wife died in 2012’

•Presidency: Those without BVN have themselves to blame

•Lawyer: It’s illegal






https://newtelegraphonline.com/2017/11/bvn-forfeiture-order-stealing-dead/

frenzyduchess:
So you want to tell me a man that gave his wife std even when their sex life was great and nothing was wrong has been celibate for the past one year? Hahahaha you People will kill somebody with laff.

frenzyduchess:
Please tell us how a man that comes home late probably after banging a strange lady in a hotel has learnt his lesson? Or you skipped that part where he comes home late?

desreek9:
Please take time to read this, I really need your advice.

I am a working mother of four kids (2 sets of twins) been married since 2012; I and my husband communicate well, our sex life is great (we explore diff. styles) and I make sure everyone is contented and satisfied or so i thought.
How i found out he was cheating

I noticed I didn't see my period for two months which is weird, I checked if i was with child but it was negative, before then I noticed burning feeling when i pee and pains so i decided to see a doctor, that was how i received the greatest shock of my life. I was told i had STD, I was in shock, crying and shaking cos i know i got it from my husband, was told to do an HIV test.

After the longest wait of my life and vomiting due to anxiety and panic, it was negative. Three months later was still negative, I went home thinking of ways to kill my husband. Later that night i first asked him if he was cheating he blatantly denied but when i showed him the test result, he was dumbfounded and started begging, i asked him why with tears rolling down my eyes, he couldn't give any reason because he knows everything was great btw us, i told him we would never make love anymore that i can't risk my life because of sex, he was begging me saying he would change, i told him i can never trust him cos once a cheat, always a cheat.

My people, it's over a year and we've not had sex, he can't chase me away from the house because we both built it and the land is in my name, sometimes he comes home late but i really don't care since we have separate bedroom. He said he can't leave because he will have to tell his and my people but he doesn't want the embarrassment.

Apart from all these, every other aspect is great at home, so my question is this; is my decision too harsh or am i justified?

Ikechuob:
Then explain to me why my family was affected with the 20 pounds saga then oh history distorter. I'll be waiting.

Considering Asaba was not among the Biafra and my family lived in Lagos prior to the Biafra war, none changed their money to Biafra pounds. Therefore, history rewriter, explain to me why my grandmother couldn't take it her husband's own money from the bank despite she had evidence it belongs to her husband, instead she received 20 pounds. I'll be waiting for that answer. Thank you.

OZAOEKPE:
@bolded, can never be great

Replacing a northerner with another northerner


That jubril is sick