₦airaland Forum

ekt_bear: Up Awoooooo

onandon: Any state "losing" (pdp) "Federal govt touch" should be lucky !

Beaf: I'm getting tired of the silly remarks some people post without t
hinking. NL is a forum many foreigners use, yet we Nigerians use it as a means to portray ourselves as completely instinctive and utterly lacking in cerebral abilities.

This has to stop. For goodness sake, we are talking about life and death here.


I wish Dasuki goodluck and pray that he succeeds. He must have a couple of levers he can pull, because 3 weeks is a very short time and his promise is very confident.
Lets hope the senseless killings come to an end.

Billyonaire: Then the whole of SS,SE and SW is sorrounded by Ocean....we need this nuclear energy badly......I cant wait to stay online all day without buying diesel.

Jikan Hauwa: Nairaland are very good in ad hominem. Why cant any of you refute the above mention facts with facts... without personal attacks. Boko Haram has been hijacked by opportunist..

crux84: Is Boko Haram real or the metaphor of an agenda against a section of the country? - asks Aminu Sarki.....

Agenda against the North, Hausa/Fulani and Islam

Evidence:

So, without doubt there is Boko Haram which aims to establish, according to them, a just social system of governance as they understand it, which path to its establishment is strewn with violence and there is a “Boko Haram” which uses the violence of the authentic sect as a cover for its own violence aimed at psychological warfare, the need to maintain the status quo of northern division and to, through massive propaganda, cast a select set of northern leaders or politicians as sponsors of terrorism “because they have lost political power.” Any objective observer couldn’t have missed how through massive propaganda certain northern politicians are being made to look like the sponsors of the terror group because of their insistence on President Jonathan to honour the zoning agreement of his party, the P.D.P., cleverly avoiding the fact that the terror group’s existence preceded the zoning debate. In fact, this deliberate misinformation and miseducation will benefit more those who want to perpetuate the ethno-religious division in the north as these select northern leaders are cast in the mould of the Hausa/Fulani enemies of Christianity bent on enslaving or exterminating the northern minority tribes to engender a Hausa/Fulani hegemony or oligarchy. This latter “Boko Haram” could possibly be a mix of some Christian and Muslim psychopaths who can do any work for money in the same fashion as there are gangs of armed robbers with memberships cutting across religious and ethnic lines.

Evidences of my claim are:

(1.) The reported arrest of the suspects that sprayed bullets on the Gombe Deeper Life Church worshippers of which the suspects arrested were alleged to be Igbos. Keen observers would remember that “Boko Haram” claimed responsibility for that attack. Noteworthy also is the fact that the arrested suspects were moved from Gombe to Abuja and since then nothing has been heard about them.

(2.) Shortly after the Gombe Deeper Life Church massacre, following quickly also after the Gombe township bombing fiesta two men, named Hassan Ojudu and Samaila Yakubu, all of them Christians, were arrested in the same Gombe town with a vehicle loaded with explosive devices and ammunitions. If they were part of those who did the bombing fiesta Christians should note that “Boko Haram” also claimed responsibility, and if they were not a part of the bombing fiesta be assured that if they had not been arrested and they succeeded in using their own merchandise “Boko Haram” would have claimed responsibility. Curiously, since they were moved to Abuja nothing has been heard about them.

(3.) If the eight COCIN church members arrested with explosive devices at the Miya-Barkatai branch of the church in Bauchi State had succeeded in detonating what they were arrested with, be assured “Boko Haram” would have claimed responsibility and since the village is near Jos, Plateau State some brainwashed youths with hearts filled with hate would begin to pounce on any available Hausa/Fulani on sight for revenge.

(4.) If Miss Lydia Joseph had succeeded in burning down the St. John Catholic church in Bauchi city be assured it would have been attributed to Boko Haram or to Muslims.

(5.) If Emmanuel King, the guy who disguised as a Muslim wearing a turban and kaftan, had succeeded in bombing down the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Yenagoa the Bayelsa capital “Boko Haram” would have claimed responsibility, and the intended desire for reprisal would have further brought the real desire, which is polarization. It doesn’t matter whether the guy is sane or insane as he was later touted to be. Also, possibly in further pursuit of this polarization agenda some persons were reported to have burnt down a worship centre of the Church of God Mission International in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital as reported by the LEADERSHIP newspaper of Sunday, January 15, 2012 on page 9. Who did it may not be known now, but there is the possibility it could have been meant to trigger some kind of attacks against some undesirable elements with the added benefit of maintaining a national division.

(6.) If Madam Ruth had succeeded in bombing down the ECWA church in the Kalarin area of Kaltungo in Gombe State verily, verily I say unto thee “Boko Haram” would have claimed responsibility notwithstanding whether she was hypnotized or not as some may want to claim.

(7.) After the COCIN church headquarters bombing in Jos defence authorities issued a statement disclaiming the man lynched while trying to escape from the vicinity as not a soldier, whereas the man was wearing military uniform and was later identified as a member of the church. To lend credence to this possibility the Special Task Force (STF) on security in Jos on Sunday, March 25, 2012 paraded one Mr. Alex Danladi who was caught wearing army camouflage t-shirt, cap and boot while parading himself as a soldier. He was paraded alongside one Mr. Dung Bulus, a suspected fabricator of guns and some others whom the authorities said are students of the University of Jos. Also on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 the 2 Brigade, Nigeria Army, Bori Camp, Port Harcourt paraded one Abba Ibrahim allegedly caught with military uniforms and other gear including weeds suspected to be cannabis. He was said to be a dismissed military personnel and hails from Billiri, a predominantly Christian town in Gombe State and that at the time of his arrest he was standing trial for another case of impersonation (see THE NATION newspaper of Wednesday, March 28, 2012 page 57). Now, for a fee wouldn’t this Alex Danladi, donning his military gear, ask some persons manning some church entrance to open the gates and some paid murderers would drive in and detonate their bomb laden car? Or wouldn’t this Abba Ibrahim do the same for money?

(8.) On January 11, 2012 two Nigerians named, Sunday Eze from Anambra State and Samuel Taiwo from Ogun State and some three Ghanaians were arrested in Ghana with some heavy weaponry carefully concealed in a truck, which was to be brought to Nigeria. Opposing bail for the suspects in court on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 the Office of the Attorney-General of the Republic of Ghana said “the arms and ammunitions seized on transit to Nigeria were to be used to fuel terrorists’ activities in the country.” See the DAILY TRUST newspaper of Wednesday, March 28, 2012 page 3. These Nigerian suspects are from southern Nigeria and bear Christian names. So, on whose behalf were they bringing in those arms of which the Ghanaian authorities said were to be used for terrorism in Nigeria? And which terror group do they belong to?

(9.) On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 a 38 yea- old man named Monday Davou was arrested while planting a timed Improvised Explosive Device (IED) or time bomb, if you like, at the Makera weekly market in Riyom Local Government Area, Plateau State. This was with intent to commit mass murder, for that is what planting a bomb in a market will do. Now if Monday Davou’s bomb had exploded be sure that a “Boko Haram” spokesperson will have claimed responsibility and even before the statement of claim comes Monday Davou’s kinsmen would have launched “reprisal attacks” on any person that looked like Hausa/Fulani and their properties, and would have probably roasted some of the Hausa/Fulanis and eaten them like they did sometime in 2011.

(10.) The DAILY SUN newspaper of Monday, February 20, 2012 on page 12 reported the arrest in Akure, Ondo State of a gang of five armed robbers led by one Evangelist Wale Adelu, “an evangelist of one of the old generation churches, which has branches in the state capital…..and they were said to be meeting in his church before they proceeded on any robbery operation.” Wouldn’t this “evangelist” and his gang agree to bomb churches for a good fee?

(11.) Similarly, the SATURDAY SUN newspaper of Saturday, March 10, 2012 on page 10 reported that 11 cartons of explosives imported from South Africa and “carefully packaged to beat security checks” were intercepted by the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The consignments were said to be for “Miero Marble Granite and Stones Limited in Kaduna State, with one Mr. Michael Awara Ernest as the representative to collect the explosives at the cargo terminal.” The Customs Area Controller in charge of the airport, Mr. Charles EporweiEdike while parading the suspect said “If these items were released to him, they could have been used to cause mayhem; we are now going to hand him and the items over to the police for further investigations.” Well, since the handover to the police nothing has been heard about it again. And let the Muslims bearing Michael Awara Ernest step forward to the nearest police post for proper identification and documentation, please.

(12.) The THISDAY newspaper of Friday, January 13, 2012 on page 6 culled a news report from the BBC in which a British-based arms dealer, Gary Hyde was being prosecuted in a London court for unlawfully arranging the shipment of about 80, 000 guns and 32 million rounds of ammunition from China to Nigeria in 2007. But, the big question is, to whom did he make his shipment? To Muslim radicals or to some church going criminals?

(13.) On Sunday, February 19, 2012 four persons were arrested while trying to detonate explosives at the St. Theresa’s Catholic Parish, High-level in Makurdi the Benue State capital. The LEADERSHIP newspaper of Wednesday, February 22, 2012 on page 10 reported the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the state’s command, Mr. Alaribe Ejike as saying those four persons arrested were Christians and not Boko Haram members as speculated by members of the public. He said “We are still trying to find out certain things about them, but we have not confirmed whether they are Boko Haram members. It remains one thing, and as soon as we find out, we shall inform you accordingly.” Up till now nothing has been heard from the police. But, poor Alaribe Ejike may not have known that there is a “Boko Haram” with members possibly cutting across religious lines impersonating Boko Haram for some people’s strategic interests.

These few examples are possible involvements of Christians in betraying the church and Christians and the nation.

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Billyonaire: All, yes I mean all Industrialized nations use Nuclear Energy because of the potency and the capacity of electricity generated. I am not playing down the major health hazards, but we do have uninhabited deserts and rainforest where nuclear facilities can be installed underground. We cant power this country only on gas, we need cheap nuclear fuel so gas can remain our revenue generator. Nuclear is the way forward. In 22nd century, cars and planes will be powered by nuclear turbines, the faster the world harnesses nuclear energy the earlier we will invent nuclear saucers that will fly us to the neighboring galaxies. The time is now.

Kuforiji Thomas: God go put him through.

koruji: Please list your top three fundamental principles to guide Nigeria to the path of rapid, but sustainable, development.

You can list them here or visit this open discussion at the NAO Forum (with all the spam bots I'll probably regret this ):[url]http://nao.nigeriaanew.org/forum/index.php/topic,83.msg531.html#msg531[/url]

Ngwakwe: Lets create a ministry for Boko Haram - Osun State Governor

Ogahtech: Please, readers should note. This has nothing to do with criticism or sectionalism. 1 Northerners were never selfish in polititics. Because the north brougt obasanjo to power collectively to compensate the blonders done by one of their sons IBB to the yoruba's. Despite obasanjo was a christian. 2 GEJ got about 60% support from the North in 2011. Despite he is a christian. I remember when shagari told the people of sokoto to vote GEJ because the niger deltan's are their brother's, the gave them maximum suport during the second republic. And certainly GEJ was ahead of buhari in sokoto. Don't forget, sokoto is the centre of islam in Nigeria. 3 The boko haram chaos, should'nt be used against the entire north. Because, if we could remember the days of the militants in south-south. Many people pointed accusing finger on the leaders and youths of the south-south. until yar'adua came to realized, the government is the only solution to the problem.
4 finally, i would like every southerner to agree with me that we from the north are more concern and worried on this issue of boko haram. We pray day and night for a rescue mission. hoping one day the government will wipe away our tears, the way our son yar'adua wipe away the tears of our brothers in the south-south.

SmoothCrim: Give me Ghanaian rule or Give me death!!

Never has dignity been so personified in one state. No to Al Qaedaism! NO to French rule! Let Ghana rise!!

SmoothCrim: Nigeria is hopeless weak and divide. Only Ghanaian rule can save West Africa. It is the most African of any country in West Africa. Others are too French, too Al Qaeda like, too violent, too tribal etc. Once again only Ghana can save West Africa!

http://www.punchng.com/news/bharam-foreign-groups-sharing-bombs-money-us/

June 26, 2012 by Agency Reporter 6 Comments

ACTIVITIES of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, may get worse given revelations that the group is sharing funds and swapping explosives with two other terrorist organisations in Africa.

Commander of the U.S. military’s Africa Command, General Carter Ham, said indication of cooperation between Boko Haram, al Shabaab in East Africa, and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb could signal a dangerous escalation of security threats on the continent.

The three organisations are said to be the continent’s most violent and they are believed to be sharing money and explosive materials while training fighters together.

Reuters reports on Monday quoted Ham as saying, “Each of those three organisations is by itself a dangerous and worrisome threat.

“What really concern me are the indications that the three organisations are seeking to coordinate and synchronise their efforts. That is a real problem for us and for African security in general.”

He spoke at an African Centre for Strategic Studies seminar for senior military and civilian officials from Africa, the United States and Europe.

The United States classified three of the alleged leaders of Boko Haram, as “foreign terrorists,” on June 20. But it declined to blacklist the entire organisation to avoid elevating the group’s profile internationally.

Police confirmed that members of the sect seized a prison in Damaturu, Yobe State, on Sunday and freed 40 inmates.

Islamist militant group al Shabaab is active in war-ravaged Somalia and has been blamed for attacks in Kenya. Last year it claimed responsibility for the death of Somali Interior Minister, Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan.

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, an affiliate of al Qaeda based in North Africa, is mainly a criminal organisation operating in the Sahel region. It kidnaps Westerners for ransom and aids Africa’s drug trade, according to intelligence officials.

The U.S. and regional officials fear that a power vacuum in northern Mali following a military coup in March may open an expanded area of operations for Islamist militants. Some western diplomats talk of the country becoming a “West African Afghanistan.”

Ham said AQIM was now operating “essentially unconstrained” throughout a large portion of northern Mali, where Islamists have imposed a harsh version of Shariah law.

“The group was a threat not only to the countries in the region, but also has “a desire and intent to attack Americans as well. So that becomes a real problem,” Ham said.

Emphasising that the U.S. military played mainly a supporting role in Africa, Ham said the US was providing intelligence and logistical help in the hunt for Ugandan warlord, Joseph Kony, whose Lord’s Resistance Army was accused of abducting children to use as fighters and hacking off limbs of civilians.

The International Criminal Court in The Hague had indicted Kony for crimes against humanity in 2005, and his case hit the headlines in March when a video entitled Kony 2012; put out by a U.S. activist group and calling for his arrest went viral across the Internet.

Ham said he was confident that Kony would ultimately be apprehended by African troops.

“This is an African-led effort. It is the African Union increasingly taking a leadership role with a little bit of support from the United States military. We think that is the right approach,” Ham said.

Meanwhile, Ham said on Monday that the U.S. military was increasing its operations on the continent as terrorist groups began to work closer together to carry out attacks in the region.

He said the terrorist threat in Africa was growing and that the U.S. forces under his command were focused on al Shabab, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb in the north, and Boko Haram.

The US new defence strategy calls for a greater focus on Africa, but only with a limited presence of U.S. personnel to train and assist the militaries of countries on the continent to counter security threats.

Last year, President Barack Obama authorised the deployment of about 100 U.S. troops to Africa to help the armed forces of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic in their campaigns against Kony and his LRA.

Ham said that enabling the militaries of partner nations was a more effective approach than sending the U.S. forces to do the work in the vast area where the LRA was operating.

“We can help in terms of logistics, some information and intelligence sharing, of communications, and a little bit of mobility. I think that’s the best way for us to provide what I would term unique U.S. military capabilities to assist our African partner,” Ham said.

The US has only one permanent military base in Africa, in Djibouti, with about 2,000 American personnel.

Ham said there were no plans to build any other base on the continent.

Ehyncmosync: Obj(baba) is undesputedly the best president Nigeria ever had ,but funny enough he is hardly appreciated,Baba did indescribably well for this country unfortunately he his the man "they love 2 have".Quite ironical.pls post your views and give reasons why you think object is treated this way

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news-update/51554-why-nigeria-must-decentralise-by-fashola.html
By Our Reporter25 minutes ago

Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has said decentralisation of power would help develop the country.

The governor spoke on Friday while presenting the state government’s Position Paper on the proposed amendment to the 1999 Constitution by the National Assembly.

Fashola, who spoke at the Lateef Jakande Auditorium of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Alausa, said without decentralisation of powers and functions it would be impossible to have a true and fiscal federal republic.

He said: “Does the central government have the human, institutional and governmental capacity to provide basic needs such as primary education, water supply, sanitation and primary health care in a reliable manner in all the 774 Local Governments?

“As a corollary, we might also ask whether the Federal Government is able to maintain all the 9001 roads in Lagos State and make them pothole free all year round and whether it is able to do the same thing in the remaining 35 states.”

He said there was an urgent need to move away from the current unitary order.

The governor said: “This is the reason why the shackle of unitarism evident in policies like a quota system, central agriculture, central electricity, central VAT, central driving license, central judiciary, central Police, central railways and so many like them must be immediately removed, to enable the people of Nigeria take control of their own destiny through their States.”

The Governor stated that the position paper is an aggregation of the harmonisation of the 2005 and 2009 Lagos reports and relevant parts of the various communiqués issued during the various State Executive/Legislative parleys.

He informed that his presentation covers the areas of devolution of powers, creation of states, geo-political zones, traditional rulers, local government, land use Act, NYSC Act and Code of Conduct, fiscal federalism, Immunity clause, Mayoral status for Abuja and Nigerian Police as stipulated by the National Assembly.

On the issue of fiscal federalism, the governor stated that revenue allocation is central to the existence and functioning of both the Federal Government and the federating units and proposed a new formula that gives the Federal Government 35percent, State Governments 42percent and Local Government Councils 23 percent.

He added that in the case where Local Government Councils are eventually expunged from the Constitution and the states having to fund the councils, a further amendment would be sought to give the Federal Government 25percent, State Governments 45percent, Derivation 25percent and Intervention/Support Fund makes up 5percent.

The governor called for a re-examination of the concept of derivation in order to ensure equity and fairness.

He said: “In addition, we take the view that derivation should not be limited to petroleum alone. It should be applicable to all resources and all revenues collected into the federal purse. Further, the right of all communities in the management and exploration of resources within their territories should be guaranteed by the Constitution.”

achi4u: by the time our population spring upto 20 to30million vibrant igbos______we'll push you out your region.

you may own the land but owned everything in it inclouding human.

Anyday we decided we annihilate and level dat ur land.

MDYA: in your heart, judge nt a man by his action but by wht his religion teaches. Islam teaches justice n equity to all. It enjoins wht is good n forbid evil. Get a copy of d translated Quran n read. Den u can make ur references to its teachings. May God guide u

Beaf: ^
The unbalanced one! Can't you even muster a single argument for ACN?
Lol!

Prediction:
Osun - PDP
Oyo - PDP
Ogun - PDP
Ekiti - PDP?