₦airaland Forum

Jaftee:
What is wrong with this Igbo guys and tribalism, where is your brain going while we are still here? Did you think most Yobe people are Muslim? Abi na only Igbo de wear jean and T-shirt.
Think of Nigeria for one seconds abeg.

Tribalistic monkeys like you believe you're sleek, so you'll accuse someone else of tribalism, as a smokescreen, while you prance in with your own glaring tribalism. Did the person you quoted mention that he's Igbo or that he speaks on behalf of the Igbo? If you had a problem with his post you address him as an individual, but that would not suffice for a tribalist monkey. You had to drag Igbo into your mess at all cost, just to vilify them.
Notice, I don't give a crap where you come from. You are nobody's mouthpiece, and your foolishness here is yours alone.

Abeg God bless the efforts of our soldiers, but we really need to be more on the offensive. Perhaps isolated observation posts and check points make for easy targets for the roving BH elements who blend in with civilians to stake out their positions for subsequent attacks. Nonetheless, they'll have to be able to effect early detection of BH movement with hundreds of fighters moving across a long distance to attack a capital city.
Seems like our gunships are beginning to turn the tide in our favor as they've given us the upper hand in the latest encounters, from what I've read. With our superiority in the air, we should have the advantage not only in combat but in reconnaissance. We won't win this fight by letting them dictate when and where they wish to engage us.

Hmmm, but when the grim reaper paid him a surprise visit, all the money in the world couldn't bail him out. I'll imagine he assumed life was an infinite experience, with the alarming rate at which he was stockpiling cash for himself.

Damn, CNN says there's intense fighting going on at the moment.

APC is nothing but a retirement home for disgruntled PDP elements. Shikena!

AIYELE:
Maybe na fulani he thought is a White man

You mean somebody that lives in Kano doesn't know what a Fulani man looks like? C'mon man.

This has to stop.

Sirniyeh:
You missed the point! Your claim reveals who you are mentally. The progress, recognition, achievements and impacts of BRF become possible simply because he met a good foundation built by Tinubu and thred its continuity.

Jonathan didn't do likewise because he surrounded himself with men with blurred vision for Nigeria. OBJ indeed, with all conscience laid a very robust foundation for a better Nigeria.

Personalities like
Dora Akunyili: started well with Nafdac
Soludo: CBN was doing fine
Ribadu: EFCC
Ekwesili: tried her effort

But what can you say concerning those agencies today? Rots!

The difference between Obasanjo and Jonathan is that

OBJ: He does not allow himself to be influenced by those myopic and selfish politicians.

GEJ: He is a coward subjected himself to manipulation by his wife and clueless subordinates.
Etc

Save your breath. Is Obasanjo currently sitting on billions and billions of Naira that belong to you and me or not? We can wax poetic on tales of who is being manipulated by his wife or who was straffing his daughter-in-law, but there's no denying that Obasanjo sufficiently enriched himself and his cronies at the expense of Nigerians. He's a thief.

Aaaarghh! This man ruled Nigeria for 11 years with nothing to show for it, now he's out of power and just won't shut up.....somebody put a dild.o in his mouth already!!

Ngwakwe:
Is Gov T. A. Orji a stooge to Orji Uzor Kalu who installed him as Governor from prison?

The answer is resounding No

Aba would been a first class commercial city and a beauty to behold had T. A. Orji played stooge to Kalu

What? Kalu did not transform Aba to a 1st class commercial city, but you are suggesting TA Orji would have done so if he remained his stooge? Doesn't make much sense to me. I'll admit that Kalu was a better governor than TA Orji, but that's not saying much.

Oga OP do you have any pics to substantiate your claims of Buhari plotting and executing a coup? Everyone knows he was mindlessly tending to his cattle in Daura when "they" called him to come and be the Head of State. He humbly obliged the coup plotters.

How can you even suggest that billions of dollars were unaccounted for under Buhari's watch in PTF when Buhari himself has told us time and time again that Abacha was not corrupt. Between Buhari's infallibility and Abacha's holiness, it was virtually impossible for a Kobo to go missing from PTF. Never mind the fabrications of 'recovered Abacha loot' being peddled by PDP since 1999. . . .take it from Buhari, Abacha was broke!!!!!

Nigeria's oil is located in the south, it only made sense that the good General awarded all oil blocks to northerners for the sake of equity.

That's all.

Yes, we don't need any internal jostling or Jonah would use us to mop floor again. Buhari should step down for Atiku as he has failed in his journey to nowhere uncountable times. His baggage is too much. At this point one might even see him as a PDP agent that is deployed to any opposition party to ensure a PDP victory.

Linda speaks on the issue:

So something has been going on for the past couple of days that I haven’t reacted to because I wanted to see it play out and see how far these people will go. They have gone far and it’s now time to react.

The only reason this is happening to me is because I’m number one…so I am flattered. I am currently No.10 on Alexa.com, more read than all the other news sites in Nigeria, so I understand why I am the target. If I were them, I’d hate me too…lol.

So here’s what’s going on. Sometime last year, some guys decided it was time to run me out of business (duh, like you can…lol). So they began to spam by blog. And when your blog gets a lot of spam, Google (which hosts my site) can take your blog down. But instead of taking my blog down, Google took my Adsense down for a few months and eventually re-instated it. So they didn’t succeed. These same people started sending strange emails to me…looking for different ways to have access to my blog. But I wouldn’t let them. If they could, they would have hacked it, but they couldn’t so they continued to look for different ways to attack my blog. Please continue…

In April 2014, these guys decided to close down the blog again. In the emails they exchanged back and forth, they said ‘plagiarism is a good excuse to finish her’. (they forget that if they succeed in closing down LIB because I’m on blogger…I could easily start a website). Now let me tell you who these guys are. They are IT people, security experts who know how the internet works. They are hackers and cyber-squatters…and only go after the biggest internet setups.

Immediately after I shared photos of my new SUV, these guys re-connected again and decided it was finally time to end LIB because there were quite a few people who were mad that I bought the car and they wanted to play on their emotions. The head of this team is a guy who goes by the name @MrAyeDee on twitter. They decided to use the plagiarism card. He said it was the strongest claim to make and easiest way to get support from other people. And then the campaign started with him claiming that I took something from him without crediting him or asking for permission. 100% false. If he owns a website, I’ve never visited it. He started by writing all sorts to get people to notice…and then he acted. Like I said these guys are IT experts, they know what to do to get blogger/Google to come after you. So he and his team started filling several reports, sending links of my blog posts and making claims to Google. Outrageous false claims. And because Google acts first before they contact the blog owner, they took down some posts and asked me to file a counter claim if I felt I had a right to re-publish those articles. Now that my blog is under Google review, these guys have started to spam it again.

They want Google to shut it down. That is their aim. Will they succeed? I sincerely don’t know. I’m not an IT expert…I know they are spamming and filing complaints, I don’t know what else they are doing behind the scenes but they are relentless.

Now let me give you guys a bit who this Aye Dee guy is. He’s anonymous on Twitter. Nobody really knows who he is but according to those investigating him, his name is Emmanuel Efremov simply known as EE by his friends. He’s the owner of 15Past8.com media group. Based in Manhattan. Gets funding from some US organization. (His number – 212 9608127). He’s apparently been stalking me for years now and have registered quite a number of my domain names…lindaikeji.net plus 8 others. He also owns 9jalife.com…yep, he owns a blog. He accuses me of copyright infringement but when you go to 9jalife and other websites he owns…98% of the things he has on there are other people’s content. You see pot calling kettle black? Lol.

Immediately he was found out yesterday, the IT expert immediately started to redirect lindaikeji.net to my blog. If you click lindaikeji.net now, it will redirect you to this blog. He panicked yesterday and quickly did it. A name he register as far back as 2011. Lol. Choi!

Not only that, he’s also a cyber squatter. Yep, he registers 100s of websites belonging to others around the world and tries to make money off them. Guess one of his aims is to run me out of blogger so I come to him and his team and pay thousands of dollars to get one of the several names he’s registered. Not going to happen, boo! Hehe

Below is an article from lawyer and blogger Uduak Udouk of Africa Music Lawabout this guy and his cyber-squatting criminal activities
“According to a twitter handle owned by @MrAyeDee, celebrity blogger Linda Ikeji was accused of copyright infringement of his works. He reported these infringing activities to Google and what resulted was a take down of his articles/works on her site. He also claimed with the rate and way things looked, Linda Ikeji’s site could be shut down within a week.
I get the fact that this guy was concerned about Ikeji’s activities and got Google to do something about it. What I don’t get is his very strong response and continued massive tweets talking about the same issue in an almost vendetta like style towards her. This got me curious to know who he was and what could be a motive behind all of these.
I began by looking at his twitter page and narrowed in on his website www. 15Past8.com. The description of the services he offered through his media group raised my curiosity. He says his media group owns “hundreds of websites.” He also claimed some of the infringing content on Linda Ikeji came from his site. Well one of his hundreds of websites is 9jalife.com because it has the 15Past8.com media group stamped on it. I did a basic search on 9jalife.com to see who owns it. The name ‘Emmanuel Efremov’ came up as the registered owner of 9jalife.com. 9jalife.com is clear it is owned by 15Past8.com media group, @MrAyeDee’s company.
For my article on Linda Ikeji, many have been saying they are surprised she does not own her own domain. Purely out of curiosity, I looked up Lindaikeji.com and noted it is owned by someone else, a case of cybersquatting. I also look up Linda Ikeji.net and see the same ‘Emmanuel Efremov’ come up. Now I am very curious. How is it that Emmanuel Efremov owner of 9jalife.com, a subsidiary of 15Past8.com, also owns LindaIkeji.net? Am I missing something?
Needless to say, I google the name ‘Emmanuel Efremov’ and lo and behold, there is a case by Volkswagen against an Emmanuel Efremov for cybersquatting. Looking at the description of 15Past8.com, the registered domain owner of 9jalife.com and Lindaikeji.net and the case by Volkswagen against Emmanuel Efremov, I am left feeling that the credibility of @MrAyeDee is shot and very weak at best. It also makes me wonder about any prior existing relationship between him and Linda Ikeji as to the issue of domain ownership i.e. cybersquatting. It is not uncommon for cybersquatters to ask you the legitimate owner of a trademark to pay them to own your own website.
If you accuse someone of copyright infringement, it is a good idea to make sure your hands are very clean and there is no connection whatsoever with a possible bad faith attempt to hijack their domain name. I am curious to see where all of these leads.” Uduak Udouk
Now talking about copyright infringement, Mr Aye Dee feels that crediting source is not enough, that I have to write a written permission to the website owner. That’s laughable at best. So if there’s a breaking news on TMZ, I will first write to the editors and wait for the 2/3 days it will take them to reply me…that’s if they even bother to.

I admit that I take content from other sites. Plenty of it sef, but the question is, which website in the world doesn’t? If you go on Bossip.com, 50% of what is there is from other sources. Daily Mail UK takes from other sites, re-writes and give credit. UK Mirror takes from other sites. MediaTakeOut quotes other sources. E! Online, Us Weekly, People and even CNN take news from other sources and give credit, so why is mine an offense to the extent that my blog deserves to be shut down? Even in Nigeria, which site doesn’t take news from other sites? Which? That is how media runs. Perez Hilton makes $10million a year from blogging and 50% of the content on his site is not originally his. As long as you give credit…which I do! Except in cases where you don’t know the original source of the story or photo. So many blogs take content from my site, how many of them have I gone after? In fact, I’m happy that they do so, I have nothing against it. If I take content from another site and they approach me to take it down despite giving credit, I will take it down. But that doesn’t happen.

I try as much as possible to get as many exclusives as I can, but because I work from home my team is so small. I’ve been planning to employ more hands which I will do eventually and then get a proper office. I’m kinda glad this happened. It’s now pushing me to act and take my business more seriously.

So Mr Aye Dee, Mr EE, Mr #bringmedown or whoever you are and Jeremy Weate (look who is talking ..lol) and all the others talking, I am not afraid of you! You didn’t bring me this far and you’re not enough to bring me down. Like if you dream it, speak it, act it, hope it, envision it, see it, pray it….YOU are not enough! You can’t bring a good woman down. You can try boo, or please keep trying…but you see this lady, she ain’t going nowhere. You don’t even know who you are dealing with. You don’t know what drives me and how far I plan to go. I’ve been a hustler since I was 17, doing it on my own…on my own terms. Plus I have the backing of God…and of course my hundreds of thousands of readers. I repeat, YOU are not enough!

I have been blogging for close to eight years and I plan to be around for many more years to come, so get used it. If you manage to close down LIB, I’ll come back bigger and better. So keep trying boo! And enjoy all the attention you will get from this post…you’ve earned it. Kisses!

Oh by the way Mr EE, one of your friends who you were doing the #bringlindaikejidown campaign with has turned against you and contacted me. He’s a LIBer just like you…hehe…but decided it wasn’t fair and reached out to me. God bless you Mr Aye Dee. I hope your hustle also pays. All the best.

To others reading this, if you want to be successful in life, please prepare yourselves for something like this. People don’t go after failures. You have to be really crazy to gather to plot the downfall of an orange seller or a gate-man (with all due respect). These people go after successes. Once you succeed in any field, they will come after you…it’s inevitable. Ask everyone who has succeeded. It’s not whether they will try, because they will…it’s how you respond to it that matters.

Don’t you ever, listen to me, ever let anyone defeat you. You didn’t work so hard to get to the top for somebody who didn’t know how you struggled to bring you down. You will be disappointing God. You don’t even know how disappointed He will be. How dare you let them win? They will come for you…that’s a guarantee just make sure you defeat them.

These people are not even haters..they are excuses…they are the natural reaction to success…put in this world to take actions against people who are climbing the ladder of success. If they see you’re about to fly, they will try to cut your wings because when you fly, there’s no stopping you anymore. And that’s what they want to do…to stop you! Don’t let them distract you. Stay focused on your dreams and keep flying.

Lastly, You know how negative voices can be so loud that you can’t hear the positive ones? In moments like that just quiet the noise and listen again…listen only to the positive ones…because they are all that matters.

May all your dreams come true! May everything you put your hands into succeed. May your enemies show their faces so you know who they are…but may they never win.

Thank you so much to all LIB readers for your loyalty all these years. I keep saying you changed my life and I will always be grateful. Long live LIB.

Thanks guys and have a blessed day.
Now back to blogging!

RevDesmondJuju:
Because I am smarter than you

You will now appreciate why the govt will need it top secret.

The top brass in the Nigerian Army will not like to see their jobs outsourced and the opposition may spin it that Jonathan is using his snipers.

The Mercenaries would have had multiple roles from training, intelligence gathering and assisination of top Boko Commaders.

It is a signal that Aso Rock does not believe in the capability of the Nigerian Military brass and their sincerity.

The money would have been required in cash as maintaining an army is highly expensive to run on a daily basis.

Most private military companies in South Africa hide under guise as security firms and arm dealers. They are also exclusively owned by white south Africans linked to the radical right wing Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaner_Weerstandsbeweging which are opposed to the ANC led government.

Remember the story of these guys who are currently serving long prison sentences in Equitorial Guinea for staging a coup:
https://www.africareview.com/image/view/-/1513464/highRes/401119/-/maxh/283/maxw/432/-/2b5gyl/-/Mercenaries.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_du_Toit

They are all white south Africans

Ok, smart guy We can only speculate but it would really be a desperate play by our govt, and is certain to evoke some backlash. Mercenaries are in it strictly for the money, so I've always had my reservations about their commitment, even though they tend to be highly trained and specialized former military personnel. I suspect the bottom line for them in this kind of conflict is to stay alive and hope the conflict continues and they can continue to get paid. They aren't cheap either. The best thing is to have them on short term contracts, and task them with very specific missions that can be easily verified, or let them focus on training. Bottom line, our Army would still have to do most of the heavy lifting if we intend on ending this scourge. It would be damn near impossible to source a private Army that can duplicate the efforts of a standing Army like ours.

RevDesmondJuju:
With all honesty there is really more to this than meets the eye.

It is my opinion that I believe the Nigerian govt where not out to procure weapons but to recruit South African Mercenaries.

South Africa is a leader in Private Military Contractors stemming from the Boer Wars.

The FG needed to make it a covet OP so as not to draw criticism from both the general public and military circles.

I strongly believe that the SA govt knew about this but scuttled it on behest of the U.S.

THIS IS MY HONEST ASSUMPTION.

This is a strong possibility, never thought of that.

I've never seen where a legitimate government with cash at hand is having so much difficulty acquiring arms to fight a terrorist group. I'm very much interested in knowing why the SA company that had already accepted payment from Nigeria all of a sudden couldn't get clearance from the SA govt and had to refund the money. Could it be that the same powers that frustrated our efforts to purchase military equipment from Israel and elsewhere have struck again?

Meanwhile, BH is armed to the teeth and the latest unsubstantiated rumor is that they now have some gunships at their disposal. Keep playing politics with everything till the day "Boko Haram" starts flying fighter jets over your villages.

Roaches, as he is fondly called in PDP circles, is a decent governor. Now, I'm not speaking from the vantage point of an indigene, but peeping out from the factory of sadness known as Abia, I see an Imo governor that is doing okay. However misguided his politics at the national level might seem to some, he has not become as raucous and desperate as Amaechi has become. I can't wish the debacle in Abia on my brothers in Imo, so if Rochas is doing okay, retain him regardless of his party affiliations. In Nigerian politricks, the individual's desire to serve the people matters more than the party he/she belongs to.

Ummm, lets not get cocky. Thanks to good fortune, the combined efforts of a lot of determined health care workers, and divine intervention that saw an unusually high 60% cure rate among Nigerians, we were able to contain the outbreak. But, if the rest of the world is very much at risk, so are we. It behooves us to offer as much aid as we can in helping other African countries contain the virus, or it would inevitably find its way back to Nigeria. Imagine that we were almost done in by the recklessness of just one or two individuals from Liberia, then realize that the dire situation in Liberia and Sierra-Leon is really too close for comfort. As a matter of necessity, for our own preservation, we must help them contain the outbreak.

Quite frankly, I can't fault the Americans. All blame must be appropriated to Nigeria for insisting on a friendship where non exists. Lately, American disdain for anything Nigeria has been on full display for all to see. Since we've refused to get the message, and desperately cling on, we leave them no choice but to come up with all sorts of flimsy and outrageous excuses for why they cannot be of any help to us. We're so used to having the West's foot way up our colon, that we don't know when to quit.

It's no minor affront for another nation, much less a supposed ally, to predict another countries disintegration publicly and even offer an expected date. It's no surprise that the western media has continued to rubbish the efforts of the Nigerian military, even given their own struggles in dealing with similar insurgencies in the Middle East. I'm not shocked that they've failed to send any significant personnel or that they've found every excuse in the book to frustrate our efforts to acquire arms from them. These are the same people that had no qualms in arming ISIS when they were fighting the Syrian government, armed the Libyan rebels, and are on the verge of arming 'moderate rebels' in Iraq and Syria. Not too long ago, they unveiled another head-scratcher about how Niger-Delta militants were working with Boko Haram. Certainly, they are aware of the fault lines in our nationhood, and the no-love-lost relationship between the Christian South and the Muslim North, hence the desperate efforts to pitch Ihejirika against the North. If he's not on a genocidal mission, then he's a BH sponsor or he's diverting the funds meant to fight them. Take your pick.

It's a far cry from the truth to even suggest that the initial unpreparedness of the Army to take on BH lies with Ihejirika. Like everything else in Nigeria, the deterioration of the NA as an effective fighting force had been ongoing for many, many years before Ihejirika. Some deluded themselves citing some success recorded against ragtag forces that did not see us as their primary enemies, during peace-keeping missions. Truth be told, this Army got it's butt handed to it by a vastly outnumbered and out-gunned Biafran Army during the civil war. Neglecting the civilian casualties, the NA probably had more casualties than the opposing forces during the civil war, and were bailed out by timely intervention by allies who actually acted like allies at the point.

The chop-i-chop affair that ensued in the military after the civil war had continued unabated till the BH issue and the apparent lack of readiness in the military started to call for some accountability. Ihejirika had his work cut out for him in reviving a lethargic Army, and most indications are that he made great strides to that effect. I don't know how much money went missing under his watch, but to cite this as a reason for refusing to aid Nigeria is just another case of America telling Nigeria to "Bleep off". Where do they find the morality and the audacity to tell Nigeria who to probe? Can we demand they probe Dick Cheney, and would that elicit anything more than a chuckle from the Americans?

While I'm all for transparency in government, I think its a joke that people feign outrage only when the first Igbo Army Chief in a long time is at the helm. Where's the outrage for all the other Army Chiefs and Generals that have ruthlessly looted this country for ages. Why is Ihejirika a perculiar case? Any so-called fight against corruption is a joke till we arrest IBB, OBJ, Abdulsalami, TY Danjuma, Atiku, and the rest of the thieving multi-billionaires you so dearly adore. You are a jester if you tell me you want Ihejirika arrested for what amounts to peanuts to what Obasanjo stole from this country and still walks around freely. Alert me when you people are serious about fighting corruption in this country.

There's no kind of rubbish one would not encounter on nairaland. Nigerian Army troops led by Murtala Mohammed engaged the Biafran forces at the battle of Ore, not some foolish Ore hunters. Seemingly, some Yoruba in a desperate effort to puff their chests out diminish the greater efforts of the Middle-belters, Northerners, and even the heavy lifting done by Nigeria's foreign allies to secure victory for Nigeria during the civil war. All these claims and counter-claims pulled out from people's a.sses can only fool the gullible, and are only useful to deluded minds. While we bask in our delusions, let's not neglect the glaringly precarious state of Nigeria at present. Do we really crave another war in this country? Who is fighting who this time around? Did anybody really win the last showdown, given the incredible loss of lives on both sides, resources expended, and the mutual suspicion and hatred that we all now have to live with? It's not sufficient to sit in some western country and aggressively punch your keyboard to boast of your prowess, but step back and take a long hard look at what war is really about. Indeed, we might have to war it out again in Nigeria, but at the end, all those who are fortunate enough to survive(speaking of the brave that actually fought, not those who hide away only to come back to rewrite history when the conflict is over) would simply realize that it was a futile and painful exercise. By all means, if any group invades your territory, they leave you no choice but to give them hell and defend it with every ounce of your blood, but warmongering online for the heck of it is foolishness.

GPA5: THIS ACT IS COMMON AMONG THE IBO

I'll concede that only a full fledged homo like you would be familiar with the activities of your secretive cohorts. Only a veteran and well-traveled homo could authoritatively declare which ethnic group has a lot of ga.ys. I bet you could tell the flavor of a popsicle by sitting on it.

Great keeper!!! But what was he doing when he rushed out on that corner that led to the first goal against France? He should have either caught the ball or punched it far away, instead he succeeded in tipping it to the head of a French player. Not his best moment, but he made many other great saves.

Aderupoko2: Let the wise decipher the answer.... America has told you who is not sponsoring Boko Haram

America also told the world that there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Always keep in mind that American foreign policy is geared towards the advancement of the USA and nothing else. America is not your friend, it's never about you, but always about them.

zeelo2014: one of his major achievements, Building roundabout.

Lol....2015 cannot come fast enough!!

Babatunde has been just okay. He had two things going for him; expectations were very low and the guy he replaced(Azeez) was downright awful. If we are looking for Nigerians that have been impressive we'll have to look at the likes of Emenike, Osaze, Omeruo, Enyeama and Musa for his efforts against Argentina.