₦airaland Forum

Bolustical:
1)How come PDP, the dominant party in the SS & SE never thought of this?

2)How come it's the tyrant Buhari and 'mere commissioner' government that has this goodwill towards people who hate them the most?

3) How come GEJ, the Hero never did something like this?

Think am o!

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has said the current administration was implementing the masterplan introduced by former President, Olusegun Obasanjo for the development of Nigerian Railway Transport.

Amaechi while fielding questions from journalists yesterday in Abuja, said the federal government was currently working on Lagos-Ibadan rail project adding that the contract for Ibadan-Kaduna and Kaduna to Kano rail projects has been awarded. He said hopefully, the China Nexim Bank would approve the loan to commence construction adding that they are negotiating for the contract for Port Harcourt to Maiduguri, which is about 2,000km. Amaechi however debunked rumors that armed robbers attack Abuja-Kaduna rail at the Rijana Community, stating that there are armed policemen in all the coaches.

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://guardian.ng/news/we-are-using-obasanjos-masterplan-to-develop-railway-transport-says-amaechi/amp&ved=2ahUKEwjryfPlsrfiAhW4QxUIHVeVB1UQFjANegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw3q7x4RvEm4Xz3mBrU8cKZK&ampcf=1

Honor10:
All the blacks from Nigeria here are Yorubas apart from Dangote and Rabiu.

we dont make noise or chest beat like people from that side. Some people make #50k per day in their 4 by 4 shops yet they wont allow us to hear word or maybe they think the profit they make in their Gala hawking can make dem a billionaire.

omoluabi ni mi

You made it sound like there are 7-10 Nigerians on the list and all are Yorubas apart from Dangote and Rabiu.
There are 2 Northerners and 2 Yorubas on this list.

It's something, so I won't deny you whatever feeling of euphoria it gives you. However, these people have been billionaires for several years now, and we've always known that they are billionaires. There's no new info provided by this list especially regarding Nigerian billionaires.

Having billionaires (in dollars) is only useful for ethnic bragging as we normally see on Nairaland. It doesn't necessarily have any impact on the lives of average citizens of the region, otherwise Dangote's North West wouldn't have been one of the 2 poorest geopolitical zones in Nigeria.
To appreciate it better, there's no South African or Egyptian on that list, yet they have far better economies than Nigeria and Zimbabwe that are both represented.

RIP Kennedy aka HungerBAD. I was never close to you but from what people are saying, you were a good man.
May your death serve to remind those of us who are still alive that our departure will come one day, and may that consciousness help us put our lives in order (especially as regards our relationship with God) as we await that great day.

anyimontana:
Lol..the kids are happy to see light for the first time in 30years..

30years old kids

As in eh, I tire for the OP o.

windhunter:
Please where do I get the magnesium and epsom salt mag from ? How many miligrams of magnesium should I consume at once and how many times a day ? How much quantity of epsom salt mag should I add to how much quantity of water ? Did the antibiotic cause you neuropathy or something else?
Thanks for you reply.

Sorry about your condition. Meanwhile, you should go and see a neurologist. Go to any teaching hospital or federal medical centre close to you and request to see a neurologist. You may need MRI of the spine done if you're having pins and needles in the limbs.

Harddiskng:
Don’t mind some people with their double standards. Gender equality; if a man hits another man he has right to defend himself but if a woman hits him all his right evaporates

Well na only push she dey push am, If she had assaulted him first he had my full undiluted support to defend himself. Trust me that won’t be the last of her matter, girls like that don’t rest while they are ahead.

Isn't pushing a form of physical assault?

Alapafaari:
Are you kidding me? Did you mean this question or just faking ignorance? Tinubu was d first governor in Nigeria that started IPP, independent power project, constructed a whole lots of roads in Lagos, one of them is Igando Ikotun road, which was eventually completed by Fashola. The first gov that started BRT buses, the tyrant, Obasanjo seized Lagos allocation for years because Tinubu created LCDA and Tinubu ingenuity raised Lagos IGR to enviable one. Pls among his 1999 peers, name a better performer, including your own State

Lagos has everything on ground to be great: busiest International airport, seaports that receive 80% of imports into Nigeria, massive population, corporate headquarters of most multinational companies in the country, a large number of industries, former federal capital territory etc. None of these were by the making of Tinubu.

Even a dullard will make an excellent governor of Lagos as long as we keep comparing Lagos to other states. It's when you compare Lagos to other cities of it's status in Africa (not even the whole world), like Johannesburg, Cairo, Cape Town etc that you will know Lagos it's all hype but little substance.

post=78573052:
We know the kind of youths we have in the country when a thread of Games of thrones gets very high comments and views than a thread on anything Nollywood!

God help Nigeria!!

Just the same way EPL threads have far more comments than threads on NPFL (which are almost never seen anyway). It's all about quality.

iammo:
your 20k talk seems stupid and gets you muted by most people, and by my own standard its quite insulting.. 20k is less than $60 dollars , that coffee for two at a good cafe, change your mindset pal

Kennydoc:
Yeah, because it's a gift not a bet. If you want a bet, we can stake £500 or £1000, if you so desire.
Are you in?

If the point in bold is a reference to the kid last night, he was too little to get me engage him in a bragging contest. There was simply no need. With you, I can go that length if you want it so.

iammo:
just lets redifine the Arguement / betting scene locally and what better way than a nairaland $1k wager with much publicity.. lets try it, since you are quite certain of your figures which is buhari federal aointment from SouthEast not up to 16.666%

Iammo, you're a very fake online braggart. I feel disappointed in myself that I regarded you more than you're worth. You're just an empty noisemaker. The young boy who was showing himself last night, that I referred to, probably deserves more respect than you.
Anyway, I now understand your type. I've learnt my lesson.

landmark86:
Not that OBO will not or can't give them the money, just that the boyz are out of patience.

But why must will show/display before giving out? Davido need 2 answer this.

Rate at which Nigeria celebrities are abusing social media toooor.

Really? It's over 4 months since he made the promise, and I'm not sure he reminded them that he would still give them the money. Infact, he has probably forgotten he made such a promise.
The best time to fulfil a promise is immediately you have the means. If you delay, you may lose motivation.
Davido is fake sha.

Yujin:
His argument has no basis hence he's beating about the bush. He wouldn't stake any money! Don't expect any sincerity from such people.

His argument is actually disgusting. He's actually trying to argue a fact known by every Nigerian including Buhari himself. I don't know what he hopes to achieve.

iammo:
why not benefit from your arguement, lets finalise things you might win as we work with different data

I am not following you to any betting site. Show your proof here on Nairaland so that other members can see it. We can sort out the bet here.

iammo:
why not benefit from your arguement, lets finalise things you might win as we work with different data

Which different data are you talking about? Where else do you want to get your data from?
This is from the presidency, young man. I even have reservations about the figures cos many of those appointments (especially those from the South East) don't fall under the key appointments I insisted on.

iammo:
just lets redifine the Arguement / betting scene locally and what better way than a nairaland $1k wager with much publicity.. lets try it, since you are quite certain of your figures which is buhari federal aointment from SouthEast not up to 16.666%

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/248347-ogun-imo-kano-highest-number-buharis-appointees-presidency.html

...Mr. Adesina showed a graphical illustration of different states and the number of top appointees from the respective states...

The link above gives us a graphical representation of Buhari's appointments so far based on states.
Adding the figures from the graph:

South East = 36
South West = 54
South South = 45

North West = 60
North East = 50
North Central = 54

Total = 299

South East ratio = 36/299 x 100 = 12%

So based on this, South East accounts for 12% of Buhari's appointments.

Can I see your proof that it's at least 16.67%? If you can't show it, you'll have to send me 360k tonight.

iammo:
you have a visa or mastercard , send your email i will send you modalities on it lets change how people argue on nairaland forever,

You sure aren't ready for this, are you? You won't want to swim in this deep water, I'm quite sure of that, cos there's absolutely no basis for this argument. I'm even appalled we're talking about this.

iammo:
publicise the bet, then people can stake for either side... makes it more painfull to lose

I don't understand. Haven't done a bet online before.
Why do people have to stake?

Well, you're obviously deceiving yourself in this matter. Even Buhari himself cannot bet on this. All the facts are out there in the media for all to see.

Perhaps, you can start by giving me the South East match of the first set of positions I listed since we started this argument. That will be a good point to start.

iammo:
yes pal the terms of the bet just got captured in the quote above, we can both move on to selecting the site and needed publicity perhaps a thread or a frontpage optimization if needed,. but outside staking may insreases the bonuses if you are in. seems smart to me....

So which site and how is it going to be carried through?

What do you mean by the point in bold?

iammo:
i am, but lets pick a two way bet site... this can be quite intresting... i dont do unsolicited gift but a bet i can

Which site and what is the modality of the bet?

Remember the bet is that you prove to me that there are as many as 16% South Easterners appointed by Buhari in key positions (or 1 South Easterner for every 3 Northerners).
Key positions obviously are heads of MDAs not members of boards.

Remember this is what I said first:

Prove to me that there are as many as 16% Igbos (and 50% Christians) in all Buhari's key appointments and I will pay you 20k this evening.

iammo:
your 20k talk seems stupid and gets you muted by most people, and by my own standard its quite insulting.. 20k is less than $60 dollars , that coffee for two at a good cafe, change your mindset pal

Yeah, because it's a gift not a bet. If you want a bet, we can stake £500 or £1000, if you so desire.
Are you in?

If the point in bold is a reference to the kid last night, he was too little to get me engage him in a bragging contest. There was simply no need. With you, I can go that length if you want it so.

iammo:
north has 50% of nigerian stake, and southeast 16.66% that means while north gets 3 southeast gets 1

you mentioned finace minister adeosun been replaced by her minister II after a controversy 6 month to collapse of goverment, should buhari appoint someone new with hostility of saraki's house or prolly seat it through,


you ask whats economical with works, housing , labour , health... and i laugh ... it might be dificult been out of power and favour since jonathan but you gotta respect 5 other nigerian geopolitical zone

Prove to me that there are as many as 16% Igbos (and 50% Christians) in all Buhari's key appointments and I will pay you 20k this evening.

Nobody is disrespecting any other zone. Ministers of Labour and Foreign affairs are from the South East, so I am not looking down on other zones cos they had some of those positions you listed.

iammo:
Be honest with yourself and show us all economic apoinments not goin southward, from works, housing, trade, labour, finance, tax and revenue, cormerce, tourism, Infotech, health, foriegn mission, tourismtransport, Nimassa, CBN and many heart and soul of nigerian economy

I should be advising you on the bolded, cos I am surprised we're even arguing this.

What's 'economical' with Works and Housing, Labour, Health, Foreign Mission, Information Tech, Transport etc ministries?

Why should the North be security favoured? Is it only in the North that there are security issues? Are herdsmen not killing people in the South? Is there no militancy in the South? Are there kidnapping and armed robbery in the South? Are there no serving security personnel from the South? So why should the North lead all security-based parastatals apart from the Navy?

Hope you remember that the current Minister of Finance is a northerner? Adeosun resigned and was not replaced by somebody from Ogun state.

In all those appointments both the ones I listed and the ones you listed, how many people from the South East are there? Is South East not supposed to have 1/6 of appointments in the spirit of equity and justice?
Don't tell me there are Federal Ministers from the SE cos it's purely a constitutional matter that every state must produce a minister. If it had been strictly the president's choice, I'm sure there won't be more than 3 ministers from the SE.

iammo:
Buddy i consider you a smart guy, please dont join the sentimental folks.... an healthy oposition is needed in an arguement, north shares 50% of our population however unlike south that we have a 50% / 50% muslim and christians while north has 60/40 % .. inevidiently this means apoinments may sound northern because it has a muslim name but North represents 3/6 of nigerian geopolitical zone while Igbos have south east and yoruba has southwest. army boss is a kanuri from northeast, defence staff from southwest , naval boss from south south, airforce northwest... this principle applies to all national agency however Secuirity favors north while Economy favour south

President: North.
Senate President: North.
Speaker: North.
SGF: North
CJN: North.
Pres. Court of Appeal: North.
CJ Federal High Court: North
IGP: North.
DG DSS: North. 
DG NIA: North.
CG NSCDC: North.
Minister Defence: North.
NSA: North.
Minister Finance: North.
Minister Petroleum: North.
Minister Aviation: North.
Chief of Air Staff: North.
Chief of Army Staff: North.
CG Customs: North.
CG Immigration: North.
CG Prisons: North.
GMD NNPC: North.
Chairman CCB: North.
Chairman CCT: North.
Chairman EFCC: North.
Director of NFIU: North.
Chairman INEC: North.
Population Chairman: North.
DG/CEO Nat'l Identity: North.
FAAN: North

If you want to consider religion in those appointments, I think only the Speaker and SGF are Christians there.

Having looked at those positions (mostly appointed and a few elected ones), does it appear to you like Buhari understands what equity and justice imply?

Those are the most critical positions in Nigerian government. Where is the South and where are Christians in all those appointments?

iammo:
Wawu… North isnt a single tribe, there are Kanuri, hausa , nupe, gwari, igala, okun, tapa and Fulani etc.. . Buhari's tribe is fulani, and fulani and kanuri had historicaly hated and waged war against each other.
ironicaly buhari's mum is kanuri.

This is how Some ignorant Northerners call Igbos and other Southern tribe like ishekiri, ijaw, ibibio and efik nyamiri.


Dont be ignorant

Still doesn't change anything.
If 80% of Buhari's appointees in key positions are from the North when ideally it should have been approximately 50% (considering the principle of federal character), then he's a tribalist and a northern supremacist. It doesn't matter if all the appointees are all Fulani or not.
That said, more of his appointees are Fulani than any other ethnicity though.

YoungAncient1:
Rubbish! The President just had to follow through on his June 12 promise. The fact that it is still being talked about shows it wasn't properly thought out.

So you will invite foreign dignitaries on June 12 to celebrate what exactly when the President had already been sworn in?

Exactly. What makes democracy day interesting is that the president and governors are sworn in, and have their anniversaries on that day.

Ugosample:
and you think he loves them?

every man has a favourite

You can't love two women the same way...

You are only interested in other things
not the love

Never said you can love 2 women the same way but you can at least love 2 women at the same time.

A woman's heart is not built to love 2 men at a time, at all.

Ugosample:
A man can love two girls at a time ?


I read interesting things on this forum daily

Of course. Haven't you seen and read news of men that got married to 2 women on the same day?

EditZone:
Nonsense.
When you liken humans to keys & padlocks, it makes a nonsense of your argument.
Married or not, women do have sex with multiple partners at different times in their lives and that's a fact.
So do men.
And nature has no problems with that.
But we humans have chosen to attach undue importance and a false connotation to what a woman does with her body.

I'm neither for polygamy nor polyandry, but it doesn't make sense naturally for a woman to marry 4 men. We all know that the primary reason for sex is procreation. If a woman marries (not just sleeps around) with 4 men, what if they all decide they want to have kids in the same year?

Even in animal husbandry, just one bull is needed in a ranch to take care of 20 or more cows. Same with other animals that can be reared.

Also, by nature, it's very much difficult for a woman to love more than one man genuinely. When women love, they love deeply with all their hearts. They commit their whole lives into the person. Men on the other hand love superficially. Men fall in love more easily but it's usually not that deep, and that's why a man can love 2 girls at the same time and find it difficult to choose one over another.

Let me reiterate that I am not in support of polygamy or polyandry. I believe a man should have one wife and vice versa. By God's grace, I am going to "eat one egusi" for the rest of my life. So help me God.

Muyiwaipere:
I am not saying student shouldn't have fun.... But with the frequent news of drowning thats flying around... . who knows the spirit that's lurking around?

My take..... I guess every parents should warn there pinkins about going to any social gathering

A word is enough for the wise

Same thing that went thru my mind when I saw the headline. The spirit of death is hovering over Nigerian universities. These things aren't just normal.

idonhammer:
Igbo indeed,just because his name is kachikwu doesn't mean he is an igbo man because they don't see themselves as igbos.kachikwu is from SS and not from SE.He got the job because he is from SS, Dem no born buhari well to give such Job to a bloody igboman.

Take note of these facts:

1. South East doesn't mean the same thing as Igbo. While SE is a geopolitical zone, Igbo is a tribe. There isn't any tribe called South South. In the SS geopolitical zone, there are many tribes which include: Ijaw, Urhobo, Itsekiri, Isoko, Igbo, Ibibio, Annang, Efik etc.

2. Before Babangida divided Nigeria into geopolitical zones, Igbo already existed. SS and SE are recent introductions to Nigeria.

3. Most of the Biafran soldiers that caused the 1966 coup were from the present day Delta Igbo like Kaduna Nzeogwu and Emmanuel Ifeajuna, yet that coup is still referred to as Igbo coup today.

Westtimeline:
Yes, not everybody on nairaland is poor, all of you are billionaires.

I just completed a 3 drawings for 3 different clients and got my cash from each of them which is not less than 5digits each. I am not a hungry begger like you that is only rich on faceless forum.

Here is one of my work.

Lol, I no talk am, when you see a traffic gala hawker forming billionaireon nairaland, they are easier to know.

Oya, show me otuba's house and tagg it as your house as usual.

₦99,999 x 3 = ₦299,997.
All these noise you're making is because of less than ₦300k? I'm sure it's actually not up to ₦200k. Wow! There are indeed many kids on Nairaland.
You won't be able to push me to engage you in this show off. It's not necessary.

Just a little assignment for you. Go and check out the post I made on 16th May at 12:11pm. It's the 30th post of mine, counting back from this present one.

Good night.

Westtimeline:
Lazy thinker, dumb fool that believed Yoruba did not vote Jonathan in 2015 now calculating useless percentage to save face so he can be pitied. So it is 20k you want to send now and not 10k from gala business. Has your hungry family put something in their stomach.

Your votes are very useless, I said so. Results proved it.

Can you show me where I've ever mentioned that Yorubas didn't vote for Jonathan in 2015? Big shame on you if you can't show that to me.
Arguing with you is simply irritating cos you're irrational, and you sound very stupid.

Not everybody on Nairaland is poor and wretched. If you're in need of monetary help, you can ask with respect and I will give you. Go and check my post on Easter day. The brother that didn't even specifically ask me for recharge card got it from me.
Stop being silly with all these gala talk. There are multiple thousands of Igbos who are landlords in that same Lagos.

Westtimeline:
See someone that wants to send 10k, Is it from your Gala hawking or what. Always try and try to think deeply before posting. Your brain is theirs for you to use and not to hawk gala. Your hungry family never see something to put for mouth and you dey talk of 10k.

Zombie personified, here is the election result where abiola won massively without your useless insignificant region.

I said it that you're lazy and dumb, and you keep proving it.
Calculate the total number of votes Abiola won in the South East and divide it by the total number of votes cast in the South East, then multiply it by 100. If the value is less than 48.35%, I will send you ₦20k now.
Stop showing your stupidity to the whole world.