₦airaland Forum

He is not sleeping. He is just pretending to be asleep according to one Naija governor.

When you think you have heard it all. What kind of policy somersault is this. Instead of a blanket removal of the ban, why not filter it; must we import toothpick?

This is the disease killing our politics and economy, we just take everything wholesale and slam a total ban or a total waiver. We are so averse to technical or case by case evaluation. CBN with testing-testing.

Toothpick!
I just hope we are allowed to import toiletpaper and bottled water. They must. Someone please Lai Mohammed that CBN is working against his dream of local production of pencils.

That is the plan. Destroy farmlands, chase away the natives, occupy farms and villages for a very long time. When the weaklings they call government mediates in the matter, it would cede some farmlands (especially those close to rivers) to the Fulanis as grazing land.

Peace would reign for about a decade, then herdsmen strike again this time with greater evil. Government settles them like before.

Before you know it, they have surreptitiously taken over the state with their bretheren from North-West, Chad, Niger, Mali, etc.

It is a well coordinated and strategically planned war by the Hausa-Fulani Northern Hegemony. They know what they are doing, but pretend its just herdsmen and farmers clashing. It's a shame the middle-belt, and the South is yet to see the larger picture.

Gravas:
@tyokunbo.
It is Buruku not Bukuru.
About the topic. Just this evening, i was discussing with a colleague about food scarcity in Benue State ocassioned by the activities of those beasts called herdsmen. They have occupied large hectares of farmlands. Farming activities have been crippled to a large extent, leading to acute food shortage.

My question is, what are the parents of those suspended students doing? You suspend students because they missed Easter service. Is it a seminary where it going to church counts as course work? I believe they wouldnt suspend students in the seminary.

Who is the Presidency?
The police or EFCC have not arrested this man
Even the DSS that usurps other authorities is lame at the moment.
The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) is on an unending mid-term break for this case.

Mark my words, "this government is not serious about fighting corruption, it is only interested in dealing with those corrupt persons who oppose Buhari, the FG, or the APC. Conversely it's corrupt allies are not corrupt. This anti-corruption strategy is never effective. Babachir will not be jailed for this. Prove me wrong May 29, 2019."

It's like you dont know the antecedents of these SARS people, if you knew you wouldn't say this. Pray that they don't stop you, the end is not usually pleasant.

dukeprince50:
SARS can't assault his brother for just having 3phones, there is something we are not getting here, there was a news sometimes last month in how a boy was sentenced to death for stealing a phone, they hid the reason that it's an armed robbery. ask the boy what he did, not 3phones, stop spoiling the name of nigerian justice.

Please no need to insult him.

tinktanker:
see mumu. So u no sabi anything as u old reach.

Na treasonable felony for wia police dey o. Infact them dey see am like say na nerve gas you carry wey you wan take overthrow government.

Jabioro:
It's now a crime to own good solid phones in Nigeria..

You welcome.

ztanleechima:
thanks. I now know. I hear you.

Do you just see people on the way and question them as suspects?
We know our Police do beat up and arrest people merely for possessing an expensive phone, even for carrying a laptop. Their treachery abound on various news platforms.

Please don't support police high handedness.

alizma:
there are hundreds of people using 3phones in River state. I guess your brother tried to show himself probably when they accosted him for one or two questions.

Are you telling us the NPF is a department; okay department of which MDA?

Biko SARS is Special Anti-Robbery Squad. Its a unit of the NPF, you hear?

ztanleechima:
SARS not NPF. They two different DEPARTMENTS.

OP Acidosis spoke sense. Don't apply for a loan, don't guarantee one for her and don't give her the money else you would use all your property to pay back a dead loan.

Acidosis:
This thing always happen when women marry money.

Your wife married your money, not you. You were only there as a portfolio; fact is the wedding was between your wife and your money. Like a teller, your main duty is to dispense cash.

It is highly unreasonable for one who has neither managed any reasonable business, nor make profit from an existing shop that cost over N2m to go further to request for a whooping N2m on rent.

I sha hope you harvest money from a tree, else you will soon become broke.

I'd advise you to invest as much as possible on your immediate family. I'm sure someone needs your assistance. Establish a sibling now that you can, they will support you later in life.

I don't know your monetary worth, but please don't go 'forming' a made careless spender. N2m is still a huge money in the current day Nigeria. That's the average yearly earning of a Banker in UBA. Imagine setting ablaze a banker's yearly salary because of an unreasonable spouse!

An average Nigerian based Professor would need to work tirelessly for 4 months to earn that.. Be wise now that your sanity has not been ruined.

That one yeyebrity opened a shop for a slay queen doesn't mean you should do same. Like their marriages, we all know those shops don't stay 3 years. Its all meant to oppress their followers on Instagram.

The aim of business is to make money and if and when your wife proves to be unreasonable with finance, get her to sit indoors or get her trained somewhere.


I've decided to ignore allegations regarding her cheating tendencies.. I believe you're man enough to handle that aspect.

Two fully fledged fools.
Years down the road, these ones will have their separate families. One day while at work, they would be called and told his/her 12 year old girl was caught having sex with her 9 year brother, then all begin to wonder what went wrong.

This act in the video is what went wrong. In a children's party sowing dangerous pictures in their pliable minds. It's sickening.
One goat there went to throw money at them, in other words saying well done.

Is this a joke?
I told one of my Igbo friends something, and let me say it here. "The greatest enemy of the Igbo people is the Igbo man."
Imagine what their own people are saying. Okorocha is gunning for presidency, T. Orji is relaxed being in the senate. MASSOB sees IPOB as a threat to their relevance, some current governor have eyes on retiring to the senate, some businessmen are worried about their investment in other parts of Nigeria, worse still some politicians are contented with ass-licking Buhari and APC. They don't ever speak with one voice, very sad.

Why the restriction, are you averse to religion?
Would you also restrict political activities to offices of political parties, labour union activities to their offices or union headquaters?
It's evident you are against lawful assembly of any and all religious faithfull.

mansakhalifa:
I see nothing wrong with the law from what I have read so far. As far as I am concerned,all religious activities should be restricted to places of worship e.g.churches,mosques. I would implement a similar law here in Nigeria if I had my way.

Aye ne o nabo ju Urhobo ne. Ate abo ke.

Quota system promotion.

nkwuocha:
Cesspit!!!
I'm not surprised at all.If a level 14 Hausa man here cannot write a memo or operate a computer mouse, then one begin to wonder how they get promoted in the first place.

Than you so much. When we saw the signs of this lopsidedness in the composition of FG political appointees during the early part of Buhari's tenure, we complained but some folks said no qualms, that he chose those he could trust and are competent.

I believe also the SSS trusts the North only, hence the appointment is skewed to their favour.

Where is OBJ to accuse Buhari of clanish tendencies like he did GEJ?

Suprnov3r:
Well... according to zombies, this is not corruption

Every statistics and data analysis shows NE, NW & NC are behind the South in education but they always seem to be the most qualified for FG employment since SAINT BUHARI became president

So for admission for our children to take enter unity schools and universities, aboki go remember say quota system dey exist. But when e reach this one pecin no dey know whether na coven formula dem dey use.
One Nigeria indeed!

No way. Job loss will be in the thousands. A branch would have no less than 20 staff both direct and contract.

Mavrick2012:
Shut down 79 branches, ie nothing less than 200 jobs will be lost.
The banking job is really at the receiving end of this government, probably because their are very few hausa fulanis in the sector.
My opinion o, before the sympathizers of this tribes start calling for my head.
Lol

I see you still don't get my drift. Crimes by our nationals abroad isn't a one only tribe thing, it's wide spread.

The Yoruba guys are deadly and intelligent scammers,; Igbo guys push drug; Edo state guys are into trafficking girls to Italy and Europe, and our politicians launder our money abroad.

In addition your government does not help matters, rather take action to see that its nationals get a proper and fair trial it would rather tag them as guilty, even while they are suspects. So we nevet get to know who is actually innocent. Stop being sentimental.

ISTANDWITHBUHAR:
those being arrested for frugs in those Asian countries are Igbo and bringing disgrace to Nigeria, I think it's time we split this country truly so everyone go their separate way.

I disagree with you. We must care because they carry the Nigerian passport. When Indonesia is recording nationility of criminals or prisoners they wouldnt write Igbo but Nigeria. In thesame vein the Yoruba guys in the UK and US who are uniquely dangerous at financial crimes and scam would not be labelled by those countries as Yoruba but Nigeria.
'Water wey touch pr.ck don touch brokus'

ISTANDWITHBUHAR:
As far as the affected ones are IGBO we don't care, The Igbo guys should desist from their shameful act of developing those that country with drug.

You folks over there in Indonesia dont expect any thing from the Nigerian Ambassador there.
What do you expect from the ambassador when the Nigerian President travels abroad and calls his citizens living outside the shores of Nigeria criminals. Your government all of you must return home. I bet you the embassy is yet to even issue passports to you in time due to poor administration.
Kindly avoid crime, be careful who you choose as friends or house-mate, flee from drug even ordinary weed, stay safe and God bless you. Amen.

This is fiscal irresponsibility of the highest order.
How does the FG keep pumping funds to states that cannot account for it. If Buhari were a company MD would he keep authorising funds for directors who are failing in their business unit?
Buhari's FG is just dashing our national patrimony to it's political sons called governors.
This is a well organized stealing.

In one sentence: your mother-in-law has a very negative influence on your wife, and she knowingly submits to it.
She woul rather obey her mum than obey you. She sees you as just the father of her child.

Mazi Kanu,
Make sure you properly sterilize your ring and glasses before putting them on, if they return it. We don't want to hear 'stories that touch' when you come in contact with them, because this FG cannot be trusted.

Pls avoid sarrki like an Egyptian plague. His thought process shocks even psychiatrists.

ahaika23:
Have you seen Buhari since thus week? I heard one reporter was expelled from the zoo rock that he's insinuating baba is on hibernate. #saibaba

It amazes me that the EFCC is so clever in bungling cases anywhere and anyhow. You freeze someones account because you suspect the funds are proceed of crime. For goodness sake investigate the matter well and get a water-tight case before prosecution.

I believe the EFCC sells out its cases or their prosecution team is just loaded with mediocres. You recall how the former governor or Rivers state Peter Odili got an order or perpetual injunction from arrest or prosecution, or EFCC loosing a case of over 100 charges against Ibori of Delta State. It's sad.

Tallesty1:
They're losing cases back to back.






BMC right now

CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF KAFANCHAN
Bishop’s House
P.O Box 85
Kafanchan, Kaduna State.
18th April, 2017

A PRESS STATEMENT ON THE ASSO VILLAGE MASSACRE IN SOUTHERN KADUNA

On 15th April 2017, at about 7:00 pm, an attack was launched by Fulani militias in Asso village, Jema’a local government area of Kaduna state. The attack came when the people were in the church for Easter vigil celebration. The killers took advantage of the event by sporadically shooting at the faithful killing at least 12 persons on the spot with many injured.

Having presided over the mass burial of atleast 10 Catholics along with their parish priest Revd Fr. Alexander Yayock the following day, I’m by conscience compelled to make the following statements:

1. The attitude of the state government has been marred by lots of complicity and bias which exacerbated rather than ameliorated tensions. The Governor in most cases seemed to have abdicated his responsibility of being Governor to all us, and instead gave in to the luxury of waging an unrelenting media campaign against Southern Kaduna people. He unabashedly takes sides with the armed herdsmen (His kinsmen) thereby failing in his responsibility as a true statesman, becoming therefore a biased umpire who blames and criminalizes Southern Kaduna victims as the cause of the mayhem. The Governor has made several efforts in the media to discredit figure of casualties that were arrived at through painstaking research, and is known for trying to change the true narrative by presenting the victims as the villain and the aggressors as the prey. The Governor has the penchance of using state apparatus to insult, denigrate, intimidate, arrest and put in prison all voices of reason from Southern Kaduna who dare to challenge his handling of this crisis. Among those that have fallen victims of his tyranny are: traditional rulers, journalists, youths, political leaders, academicians, while threatening our lawyers and other leaders (Religious and Unions) with arrest for daring to speak out against the genocide.

2. The primary responsibility of government as enshrined in the constitution is the protection of life and property of citizens irrespective of ethnic and/or religious persuasion. Any breach of this fundamental principle of social contract contravenes the very reason for which Government exist for. Unfortunately, our government both at the Federal and State levels have failed woefully in this regard because of their inability to rise above ethnic and religious bias. If anything, government has shown outright partisanship in favor of the herdsmen to the disappointment of the majority Southern Kaduna indigenes. Because of Government’s inability to serve as an un-biased umpire in the face of these crises, we are sometimes tempted to belief that there is a well-planned Jihad against the people of Southern Kaduna, and Christians generally in Northern Nigeria as this is amply demonstrated by the incessant attacks and atrocities committed against the aborigines of the Middle Belt region in Northern Nigeria. The sole aim of these attacks is to conquer our people and occupy their lush lands and turning same into grazing fields for the marauding nomads. The Governor of Kaduna State is pursuing this detestable policy by his plan to forcefully take over lands in Southern Kaduna and turn same to Grazing Reserves and Routes for his kinsmen. To show Government’s insensitivity on this volatile matter, there are ongoing expansionist plans to annex more land to the already existing grazing reserves at Ladduga in Ikulu Chiefdom of Zangon Kataf Local Government area and transmute that locality from being a district into an emirate.

3. The killings continue unabatedly in fields and bushes, thereby preventing farmers from visiting and cultivating their lands. This is happening today as the Military and other security forces mount road blocks in towns and major roads while bushes remain un-safe for farming. In the Godogodo and Pasakori attacks in Jemaá Local government area for example, the military merely watched and supervised the killings and burning of homes on the pretext that their mandate did not include fighting the herdsmen. When the youth mobilized themselves to repel the attackers, the soldiers deliberately blocked them from entering the town. The herdsmen and their collaborators turned the towns into killing fields and killed mostly women, children and the elderly who couldn’t run for cover. The level of barbarity was such that pregnant women got their wombs blown out and massacred before their children. And these innocent children were not spared either. This level of viciousness was never witnessed even in the brutal tyranny and regime of Adolf Hitler. What is most intriguing is the level of sophistication of weapons; Ak 47, Machine Guns and many other deadly instruments of death are being freely used by the Herdsmen, leaving wondering how these weapons got to their hands.

4. The Governor has described the Fulanis as vindictive and un-forgiven people. This may simply be the projection of the Governor’s own mindset to an entire people. Our experience living with Fulanis for decades does not prove this. The indigenous communities of Southern Kaduna have been living peacefully with the Fulani herdsmen who came to join them as neighbors until the architects of the view that the average Fulani man is vindictive and un-forgiving came into power. The mayhem and killing with impunity in Southern Kaduna and the Middle Belt region and beyond by the Fulani Herdsmen, using sophisticated weapons is a recent development fueled by this kind of philosophy. To present any person or group of persons as revengeful and to go ahead to support and sponsor a praxis of retaliation as we are witnessing in Kaduna State today, is not only a detestable behavior but an evil mentality that will not engender social cohesion and harmonious coexistence in a plural and heterogeneous setting such as ours. The natives and herdsmen of Southern Kaduna have always had their differences as is common in herdsmen and farmers relationship everywhere in the world. These differences sometime end up in clashes and skirmishes resulting from invasion of each other spaces, but such differences have assumed an un-precedent height under the current government with the use of very sophisticated weapons of destruction. What we are witnessing in Kaduna state is not the so called un-forgiving spirit of the Fulani people towards others, but the transfer of a hate mentality from a handful of people in leadership within the State to an entire ethnic group, with disastrous consequences. All humans are created by God with rationality and the milk of human kindness in their hearts. This often shows itself in love expressed in mercy, compassion and forgiveness. No rational human person is created without the disposition to overlook some offences committed against him or her. Only those with dead consciences are indisposed to show compassion and forgiveness. A world that does not forgive is doom to fail. An eye for an eye philosophy renders the whole world blind it is said. Describing an entire people as un-forgiven is not a plus but a minus for such people. If the Fulanis stop the aggression in Southern Kaduna today, there will be peace in the environment and the entire State. The non-retaliation of Christians to great abuses and violations of their human rights is termed as weakness, which is not correct. God has put the feeling of mercy and compassion in each of us regardless of our ethnicity and religious affiliations. If the Southern Kaduna had been trouble shooting people, they too would have established militia groups and go on rampage in domains other than their own. But alas this is not what is happening. They are being attacked in their sleep and places of worship right in the land that divine providence has given as their own. And even at that, they are told not to defend themselves in the face of aggression. The earlier we rediscover this truth of conscience (that all rational beings are imbued with a spirit of mercy and compassion) and begin to live this truth to the full, the better for our Society. Therefore the promotion of the philosophy that any offence committed is like a debt that must be avenged for either now or in the future is not only false and un-wholesome but it is the figment and projection of the personal idiosyncrasies of a few but powerful people. This mindset if not checked and corrected has the potential to erode the fabric of any social organization.

5. The killings with impunity in Southern Kaduna must not be allowed to continue. And Government in the State has a special and irreplaceable role in bringing this scourge to an end. The current Government in the State must follow the example of past Governments by initiating measures that would unify rather than divide the people of the State on ethnic and religious lines as this Government has been doing since its inception. We have had our challenges on harmonious coexistence in the past. But past Governments demonstrated statesmanship in Governance by bringing stake holders across board to parley on how to resolve our indifference. The current administration in the State seems to dread this kind of interface which had proven to be effective in the past. Government must change its attitude from alignment with people of one ethno-religious group in the State, she must resist the temptation of acting as the mouthpiece of one group against others and begin to display true statesmanship in seeing and treating the entire state as its constituency. The current Government got it all wrong right from the beginning when it openly stated that she will treat the citizens of the State not on the merits of their being Kaduna state indigenes but on the basis of who voted and who did not vote for the party that won the election. This is a wrong premise to operate under a democracy such as ours, which promotes and respects diversity particularly on political matters. We cannot all become members of one Party in Kaduna state. It is unfortunate that this kind of segregational mindset seems to be teleguiding government’s policies, utterances, appointments, and the distribution of infrastructure for development and social initiatives. This Government has taken discrimination on religious and ethnic lines to a height that has never been witnessed in the history of Kaduna. Today we are left with a situation where there is much concentration of development in the North and Central Senatorial districts to the utter neglect of the Southern Senatorial District which is predominantly Christian. The Northern part of the State monopolizes the Executive, the legislative, the Judiciary and occupies all slots of federal appointments such as the ministerial and those of parastatals. This disgusting mentality of premeditated discrimination and marginalization is shown by the lopsidedness in both political appointments, locations of infrastructural facilities, and worst still the delineations of political constituencies and polling units which institutionalizes rigging at source. While the Hausa/Fulani dominated areas in Kaduna State have cornered over 48 Federal Institutions to their domain, southern Kaduna can hardly boast of one of such institutions in her domain. Instead of the current government to work towards redressing this disturbing, inhuman and unjust imbalance, she is rather shamelessly contemplating the removal of the Kaduna State University (KASU) Campus and the College of Education (COE) from Southern Kaduna to his Fulani dominated space. What a shame and a slap to justice, fairness and objectivity in dealing with people.

6. In all these we have watched with pains and patience for about two years now how Government in the State is being managed as a personal estate in a way that excludes many stake holders from the State. We want to state emphatically that Kaduna State is for all of us, regardless of political, ethnic and religious affiliations. Therefore, the Governor should stop running it as his personal establishment. Kaduna State is the only State that we can call our own. And because Kaduna State is our State, we are contributing significantly for its progress not only on the Spiritual level, but also our works in the areas of education, medi-care, social upliftment and building of capacities of the people cannot be ignored. Government must recognize us as equal stake holders in the management and running of the affairs of the State. We do not accept being treated as aliens in our State.

7. Despite these imbalances in our Nation and in our State, here we are again celebrating another feast of the resurrection of Christ. The fact of our Lord’s resurrection revolutionized the lives of the Disciples of Christ. It transformed them from being a timid and sometimes a seemingly clueless group of disciple, to a fearless and courageous team that turned Jerusalem at some point upside down. Our faith therefore in the risen Christ must so influenced and transformed our lives as it did to the lives of the Disciples of Christ particularly at the times of persecution such as we are facing. The injustices in our Society notwithstanding, we exhort believers not to be fainthearted but courageous in facing the challenges of our time. We are to renew our faith and commitment to the living and resurrected Jesus, who triumphed over death and evil as the way to surmounting all the abuses and discrimination that we suffer in Nigeria today.

SIGNED:
Most Revd. Dr. Joseph Danlami Bagobiri
Bishop of Kafanchan Diocese and Chairman, Southern Kaduna Christian Elders Association

@ sarrki,
I don't understand you. From all of comments on Nairaland I am compelled to ask you.
Is it that you choose to speak unwisely all the time due to political leaning or you are just suffering from a hyper-deficiency of intelligence from birth?

sarrki:
I can't vouch for all this modern day pastors

This thing you just said now, can you repeat it before a judge if Sinach drags you to court? Just let me know.

2shure:
Abegi.
If jesus nor come .
Who wan come .
Abi u wan impersonate.
Abegi God of Man who fuc sinach throway

Why should talk like this. It was his wife who sued for divorce claiming neglect. He did all within his power, but the wife was hell-bent on the divorce. She filed it in the UK, the court granted it even when pastor Chris wanted to keep the marriage. In her mind she has won.

eezeribe:
He is now the advocate for Jesus.something we have been hearing since childhood.
I think he should prepare for the coming of Jesus christ by reconciling with his wife.