₦airaland Forum

Bade007:
Popular Obidient, Nedu was in enugu to welcome tinubu


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTgOlvOn568?si=_R9hOhxptSDDukKF

TimeManager:
https://punchng.com/bid-round-nnpcl-loses-as-totalenergies-others-win-oil-blocks/

TimeManager:
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Exploration and Production Limited, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, lost out in the just-concluded oil licensing bid round as winners emerged on Wednesday.

The winners were formally announced by the Chief Executive of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, Gbenga Komolafe, at the licensing round commercial bid conference held in Lagos.

During the electronic bidding process, it was unveiled that the NNPC E&P bid for three deep offshore assets – PPL 303, PPL 305, and PPL 306 – which it lost to other companies.

However, Komolafe said NNPCL is a reserved bidder for the three assets.

Our correspondent reports that TotalEnergies won a block out of the two it contested for.

In the final result, SIFAX & RoyalGate Consortium won PPL 300-DO; OceanGate Engineering Oil and Gas Ltd won PPL 302-DO and PPL 3007; Homeland Integrated won PPL 304-DO; Hakilat Oil & Gas Consortium Ltd defeated NNPC E&P to clinch PPL 305-DO; BISWAL Oil & Gas Ltd also defeated NNPC E&P to win PPL 306-DO.

After having a tie, MRS Oil & Gas later defeated NNPC E&P to win PPL 303-DO.

Similarly, Petroli Energy Marketing and Supply Ltd got PPL 269; Sahara Deepwater Resources Ltd won both PPL 270 and PPL 271; Panout Oil & Gas beat TotalEnergies and three other bidders to secure PPL 300/301 CS. Panout also claimed PPL 3015.

In the same vein, TotalEnergies E&P won PPL 2000/2001.

As sole bidders, BISWAL won PPL 2002; First E&P has PPL 2003 and PPL 2006; Deywayles International Limited secured PPL 2004; Applefield Oil & Gas got PPL 2005; R28 Holdings Ltd won PPL 2007 and PPL 3011; Tulcan Energy E&P won PPL 2008 and 3012; Broron Energy secured PPL 2009; Hakilat Oil & Gas claimed PPL 3016; and Applefield Oil & Gas won PPL 3017.
https://punchng.com/bid-round-nnpcl-loses-as-totalenergies-others-win-oil-blocks/

Ishilove:
So you're Gen X? You always give the impression that you're a Boomer. Glad to know you ain't a Senior Citizen, because I might have been compelled by my upbringing to call you " Daddy wa"

lawani:
Your fellow okuns have corrected you but you still insist.The Okun are Yoruba wrongly placed in the North by the British. They are not in any way different from other Yoruba.

smeag0l:
Sir, Bayo Ojulari is yoruba. Secondly, he doesnt work for NNPCL. The last role he held in the oil and gas industry was as the MD of one of the companies under Shell Nigeria(SNEPCo). He has a very limited broad experience in the industry when compared with Ahmed Musa Kida and Bashir Bello. Both of these guys also retired in the very top management of Total Nigeria and Shell Nigeria respectively so he cant boast of being more experienced than they are. Therefore, if BAT wants to justify his selection of Bayo Ojulari on the basis of competence or ethnicity, it wont hold water.

smeag0l:
This is exactly the comment I was looking for. BAYO ojulari is yoruba and not a norhterner, period! If BAT wanted a northerner there are northerners that are as qualified as Bayo Ojulari for that job. Bashir Bello, who is one of the northerners on the board of his own Oando and Musa Kida who is on the board of several Oil companies in Nigeria are two very qualified northerners who can do the job.

numericalguy:
Stop hitting your head against the wall like a slowpoke.
You cannot know his tribe more than him. Okun is not Yoruba and you are still exposing your ignorance instead of doing your research.

Igalas have some similarities with Yoruba but that does not mean they are Yorubas.

iwaeda:
Last week’s column on what I called the “relentless Yorubacentric take-over of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC)” based on information I was given by a Yoruba supporter of Tinubu who is close to the circuits of power in the Tinubu presidency drew far more attention than I had anticipated.


Northern politicians like former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai who had defended, or at least had no problems with, Muhammadu Buhari’s never-before-seen provincialism (and who probably hated me for calling it out at the time) used my column as a crutch to get even with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who threw him under the bus after his full-throated support for his election. Well, such opportunistic pivots are part of Nigeria’s political theater.

However, anyone who follows my public interventions knows that I have no allegiance to any set of narrow, predetermined interests and that my public commentaries are animated by my well-considered estimation of what constitutes Nigerian society’s collective good.

That’s why I have a revolving door of critics and admirers—praised by one group under one administration, scorned by the same group under another. My principles remain constant, even if public sentiment does not.

Several of the people who applaud my critiques of a southern president revile and slander me when a northerner is president, and several of the people who are bent out of shape because of my critical columns on Tinubu praised my “bravery” and “truth to power” when I wrote similar columns under Buhari.

This isn’t the reason, of course, for revisiting my column (which I rarely do) because self-interested commendations and condemnations of the expression of critical opinions are natural to the territory of public intellection.

I am returning to the issue because I felt compelled to clarify an important aspect of last week’s piece.

A trusted older friend pointed out that Bayo Ojulari, who is rumored to be Tinubu’s pick to succeed Mele Kyari as head of the NNPC, is not merely a Yoruba man but a Yoruba northerner from southern Kwara State. This distinction fundamentally alters the narrative

Had I known this earlier, I would not have written the column as I did. I have no desire to perpetuate the regressive, ethnocentric narratives that gained prominence during Olusegun Obasanjo’s presidency where the North was invidiously dichotomized into a “core” and a “periphery.”

Northern identity, as historically defined, transcends ethnicity, religion, or geography within the former Northern Region. It is a shared geo-political and cultural construct.

A northerner is anyone from the former Northern Region irrespective of ethnicity, religion, or location within the region. Being a northerner requires nobody’s approval and isn’t invalidated by anybody’s disapproval.

As the late Sunday Awoniyi used to say, when Frederick Lugard delineated the North and included his people into it, his ancestors were not consulted; he just found himself a northerner and embraced it because it has defined him since his birth. (The only prominent Yagba people from Kogi State I know who say they are not Yoruba are Professor Etannibi Alemika and prominent journalist Tunde Asaju).

The North isn’t an ethnic group; it’s constructed geo-cultural and political identity that encompasses a diversity of ethnicities. It’s Nigeria’s most complex, ecumenical identity.

As I pointed out in previous columns, a real, Ahmadu Bello-type northerner would regard Yoruba people from Kwara and Kogi states, or even Igbo people in Ado, Oju, Obi and Okpoku local government areas of Benue State, as integral “regional kin” deserving of every privilege that is accruable to a northerner.

To argue that certain individuals cannot represent the North based on their ethnicity invites uncomfortable questions about the region’s cultural and political boundaries.

If Bayo Bashir Ojulari, an Ahmadu Bello University-trained engineer who identifies as a northerner by origin, cannot lead the NNPC because of his Yoruba heritage, then the resentment of Yoruba people in Kwara and Kogi seeking affiliation with the Southwest becomes understandable.

It becomes intolerably churlish to talk about “outsiders” “dividing” the North, as we like to do when fissiparous tendencies emerge within the region. Either we accept all as northerners, or we fracture the identity entirely.

This clarification is necessary because I do not want to be on record as having opposed Ojulari’s ascension to the headship of the NNPC on account of his ethnicity, especially after realizing that he is a northerner who just happens to share the same ethnicity as the government.
https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2025/01/nnpc-and-fresh-perspectives-on-ojularis.

Edygrin:
Ahead of the 2027 general elections, the national leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, and former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has accused some Northern leaders of spreading falsehood.


https://dailypost.ng/2025/01/05/2027-northern-leaders-spreading-falsehood-kwankwaso/

Glimpsetv:
Similar to how individuals aim to enter the Guinness World Records by accomplishing extraordinary feats or achieving what no one else has done before, this woman is attempting to set a unique record. Her goal is to sleep with the highest number of men in a single day. To surpass the previous record of 919, she must sleep with 1,000 men within 24 hours. Lady shares her strategy on The Reality Check Show UK.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlwuIJ7jPPY?si=srzDsdNbM_jkZLoI

Islie:
Thursday’s repeal of the Kano Emirates Council Law, which saw the sacking of the five emirs and the appointment of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the 16th Emir of Kano revealed how politics continued to determine the reign of traditional rulers in the foremost emirate.

Since the First Republic, emirs of the ancient city have had to contend with the whims of some political leaders holding forth in the territory.

The first to taste this bitter pill was the 11th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, who had a running battle with the northern regional government headed by Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto.

Relations between Sanusi and the Northern People’s Congress (NPC) government led by Ahmadu Bello was said to have turned sour when senior members of the party in Kaduna became disenchanted with the emir’s towering personality, and rising influence.

A probe panel set up by the northern regional government headed by D.J.M Muffet, the sole commissioner recommended the forced resignation of the 11th Fulani Emir of Kano.

On March 28, 1963, the then Regional Governor, Sir Kashim Ibrahim received the letter of resignation tendered by the embattled emir, which the government accepted.

Sanusi, was subsequently deposed and banished to Azare in Bauchi State, where he maintained a low profile.

He was succeeded by his uncle, Muhammadu Inuwa, son of Emir Abbas and younger brother to the late Emir Abdullahi Bayero, whom Sanusi succeeded.

His ouster created political tension in Kano leading to the formation of Kano People’s Party (KPP), which clamoured for the creation of Kano region, independent of the Northern Region.

KPP members were largely sympathetic to the deposed emir.

The Action Group, led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo, tried to make political capital out of the seemingly declining political fortune of the NPC in Kano ahead of the 1964 general election.

Emir Inuwa’s reign was short, as he died on the throne six months later. Inuwa, however, managed internal rebellion from older children of the deposed emir.

Ado Sanusi, who held the traditional title of Daniya, was promoted to Galadima by Emir Inuwa, a position he rejected and instead tendered his resignation. This action angered the emir who decreed a dismissal instead.

Ado Bayero, a younger brother to Sanusi, was appointed Emir of Kano by the northern regional government on October 22,1963, to succeed Muhammadu Inuwa.

He was the longest reigning emir in the history of Kano emirate after the Sokoto jihad, but he also had collision with politicians in the course of his reign.

After the military coup of January 15, 1966, the enormous powers of the native authority, which was under the emir, was reduced and this was compounded by the local government reform of the 1970s, depriving the emir of full control over local government councils.

Continued...
https://dailytrust.com/the-many-battles-of-kano-traditional-rulers-with-politicians/#google_vignette

MasterJayJay:
The board said the suspension followed complaints from concerned citizens about her "revealing dress and provocative videos."

The Kano State Censorship Board has suspended popular Kannywood actress, Samha M. Inuwa, from appearing in films for one year.

The board said the suspension followed complaints from concerned citizens about her "revealing dress and provocative videos."

In a statement issued by Abdullahi Sani Sulaiman, Information Officer of the Kano State Censorship Board, the board revealed that Samha had been warned multiple times about her "crude dressing, vulgar displays, and language in her some videos."

The board emphasised that the actress' conduct had violated cultural and moral standards.

In addition to the suspension, the board has revoked Samha's licence and ceased censoring any films in which she appears.

"Kano State Censorship Board is empowered by law to ensure that all videos, writings, and other forms of expression align with the state's religion, culture, norms, and values," the statement explained.

The board claimed that the suspension is part of the board’s ongoing efforts to uphold moral standards in the Kannywood film industry and enforce the board's regulations.
https://saharareporters.com/2025/01/04/kano-board-suspends-popular-actress-samha-over-allegedly-revealing-dress-provocative

blamingthedevil:
Honduras’s president threatened to push the U.S. military out of a base it built decades ago in the Central American country should President-elect Donald Trump carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants from the United States,” the New York Times reports.

Said President Xiomara Castro: “Faced with a hostile attitude of mass expulsion of our brothers, we would have to consider a change in our policies of cooperation with the United States, especially in the military arena.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/world/americas/honduras-trump-mass-deportations.html

Fineman2:
Not a good experience


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm2tZZYtoA0?si=uqcPOxVl-OBM52rv

aswani:
Please forgive my manners, happy new year.

As it happens, your (as usual) thought provoking response has done just that and adjusted my thoughts somewhat on the topic at hand.

Thanks.

BullBearMkt:
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aswani:
Sir, whilst a touchy subject, we must face up to the fact that there are different levels of rape.

I don't expect you to agree with me and I know our professional bra burning victims will come for me, that's OK.

When interacting in an "intimate" setting with some one you know, not giving consent explicitly, withdrawing consent at the "last minute" , withdrawing consent during the act. These are all wrong but different to stranger danger rape situations and Iyabọ Ojo is trying to hide under the umbrella of the latter.

It happened 5 times apparently, don't you think she should have put herself in more circumspect mode after the first time?

My take sha

Christ4ever:
No wonder she's always bitter.

I pray you find healing Iyabo. That's if you are not lying.

altteemy:
For those asking, this is where she spoke of the unfortunate incidents.

https://www.nairaland.com/6457781/iyabo-ojo-armed-robber-raped

Best not to condemn others if you don't know what they passed through.

Fineman2:
Nollywood actress, Iyabo Ojo, also known as Queen Mother has opened up about some personal and traumatic experiences from her childhood.

In a conversation with her colleague Biola Bayo on the talk show, Talk to B, which was shared on Friday, Ojo revealed that she had been raped five times.

She highlighted the prevalence of rape apologists in society and stated that she would hold anyone, even her own son, accountable if accused of such a crime.

“I was raped five times in my life. I discovered we have a lot of rape apologists. I don’t care who the person is; if that person is my son, I am going to come for him unapologetically,” she declared.

Iyabo also revealed that her father disowned her when she insisted on marrying her late husband.

“The only time I lacked was when I insisted this was the man I was going to get married to because, at that time, my dad and I disowned each other.

She spoke about how her father struggled with alcohol and drug addiction, which ultimately led to his death at the young age of 40.

“My dad did everything, alcohol and drugs, so it messed him up at a young age. He died at 40,” she added.

Reflecting on her early years, Iyabo disclosed that she was raised by her grandmother and only met her mother when she was around seven years old.

“I grew up with my grandmother, who is half Delta and half Igbo. I think I was seven before I knew my mother,” she added.
https://punchng.com/video-i-was-raped-five-times-iyabo-ojo-opens-up-about-abuse/

naptu2:
I think it's the other way round. It had already been said on New Year's Day that President Tinubu was going to visit many states and Peter Obi simply copied the statement.

Governor Abdulrahman said it at the 2:34 to 3:30 minute mark in this video.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziOnvQ-lV14?si=Lcmu-FoqXwQlYRRC

And you can see that President Tinubu initially said it (and talked about this visit to Enugu) here (read the third picture)

https://www.nairaland.com/8306574/shettima-governors-nass-members-visit#133540730

Doxy1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHVjvTgd0Io?si=zbbcgV7HzteRB105

naptu2:
A generation is basically all the people born and living within a particular period of time.

Generations are usually categorised by signifcant events or things that are common to people born or living within this period of time, for example, in Nigeria, people talk about the Indomie Generation, by which they mean people that were fed with Indomie Noodles when they were babies or toddlers

The generations listed on the first post are categorised based on major global events, for example, World War 2 was a major global conflict that affected nearly every single part of the planet. Nigerian soldiers fought in World War 2, as did soldiers from many countries around the world. Babies that were born immediately after World War 2 are called Baby Boomers.

The Gregorian Calendar is used in most countries around the world. A third millenium began (according to the Gregorian Calendar) in the Year 2000. People that became adults in or around the Year 2000 are known as Millenials.

naptu2:
Children born this year will be the first of the Beta Generation. These are the named generations and their year of birth.

Lost Generation 1883 - 1901

Greatest Generation 1901 - 1927

Silent Generation 1928 - 1945

Baby Boomers 1946 - 1964

Generation X 1964 - 1980

Millenials (Generation Y) 1981 - 1996

Generation Z (Zoomers) 1997 - 2012

Generation Alpha 2013 - 2024

Generation Beta 2025 - 2039

ARISHEM:
They can call it different names.
When I asked one lady I was interested in on what she does she replied that she is a researcher with job descriptions I am yet to understand.

Just as yahoo and other frauds are engaged by young men who have gone deviant and rogue as a result of the distasteful economy. Olosho and hookup are activities engaged by ladies who went rogue when they get broke.

And just like some of this cunning young men explain that they are into tech, cybersecurity and IT expert services when in reality they are into yahoo and online fraud, a seductively dressed lady can say she is a health instructor, instagram influencer, masseuse, herbal mixture vendor or sexual wellness expert when in reality she is into olosho and hook up.