₦airaland Forum

nellyholmz:
I am a very reserved person,,,and i take my time to do things in life,,,i am not sure how i would have explained to people what is right and wrong? anyway like i said my friend,,who in heaven only knows the truth

Good Talk but you cant deceive anyone, anymore.

we have exposed that you and sandra2000 are one and same person.

You sell gold, you sell visa,

what else do you sell?

France is your ultimate get way to Europe, not only that france offers better, cost effective living than most EU countires.
Their minimuim wage of 1380 euros per month surpasses most EU member countries.

France is not a place to be. The difference between Paris and Lagos is very very thin.

Go and check all their train stations, there is amoeba on the wall. while people sleep under-bridge in Lagos, in paris its inside the dirty tunnels.

blacks are selling petty things on the street just like in Oshodi Oke



that said, it is romatic in the night.

as bleak as you want it to be.

ifyalways:
lmao
@topic,what really is there in a "name"

Go to any one and say:

I am from Afghanistan

I am from Nigeria

I am from Swdeen

and see the reaction to each of these statement. You will know whats in name.

why do you think Biafra started? simple: they do not identify anymore with Nigeria

why do you think OPC started? simple: they do not identiy anymore with Nigeria

why do you think AREWA started? simple: they do not identify anymore with Nigeria.

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ikaleguy:
People do not collect salaries in advance so am kind of annoyed why landlords,agents should be collecting rents in advance minimum 2 years.Fellow nairalanders your views please!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is one of the anomalies of Nigeria.

yet Govt has not done anything and people themselves have not done anything.

National Assembly + state Assembly are same. we simply dont love/value ourselves.

EFCC alone should have done something.

Maximu should be 3months = which should be used as caution fee.

who

favcom:
I remember 10 years ago, we didn't get the information on time (it was all rumours) until the evening of that day June 8 1998 when I saw people celebrating! We thought it was a riot, and started scampering helter-skelter! People rejoiced!
So, drop your experience of that day, if you are old enough

who is Abacha?

malaza:
We are a lenient country( i mean our govt) seriously.We allow them guys to come here illegally, offer them free shelter and food after the displacements and now they want to commit suicide? in our country? Can they do that in any other african country esp. Zim? We shoul deport this guys sooner, they are not doing our already tainted image any good. Hello guys, how did?

No Comment

Abdusallam was the luckiest 'corrupt ruler'.

He spent the entire budget for 12months in 5 months way back in 1999.

your guess is as  good as mine.

No, your cellphone is a weapon. You can hit somebody on the head with it continuously till he/she is dead.

If we are to go by your definition above; every thing is weapon. we both know this is not true.

Cellphone is not a weapon. The purpose is to make calls.

will people also be liable for calling wrong number or sending text to wrong number accidentally?

RedHotChic:
It's like asking if you are still responsible if someone else shoots another with your gun.

thats exactly the point: your cellphone is not a weapon.

you dont need special licence to have a cell phone as compare to weapon; so at what point those it becomes a crime for which owner is liable?

Those who have broken the law and stolen her money are just looters and criminals. They're the exact people who have turned the economy into the catastrophe that it is today.

You are still missing the point. Are these people from MARS? NO.

If they truly identify with Nigeria, they will LOVE it and work for its progress but rather they have no identity with Nigeria.

To them, it is just a place to steal money, rape, and stash the wealth in somewhere more safe.

That's the key to Nigeria's problem: We dont identify with it. We only carry the name in passport or documents.

It is people that make a place great and not the resource the place has.

that would only make the SA happy; less people to worry about.

nuzo:
Yes oo. . . . . revolution, but we have to be careful. It has to be well planned and calculated.

before you shout revolution:

how is much is needed to contest and win election in Nigeria?

how is much is needed to contest and win election in Malay?

The answer will guide you better. You need to see the Big Picture.

This is a landmark judgement.


are we now saying that 'text messages' is tenable as evidence in court?

what if someone else have used your phone to send the text?

what level of punishement is to be given for such text message offence?

how do we define when a 'text message' becomes a crime?

Pastor Enoch Adeboye, should shut-up.

Does he think, we have forgetten his role in OBJ third term??

He can only decieve those, that wants to be deceived.

FB,

YES, Coscharis workshop is located at off KiriKiri Road in Apapa.

because I haven't seen where the poster also suggests that Lagos be renamed since Lagos is a Portuguese name

you are not reading the post.

Lagos is identified as EKO. Eko ile. Eko Akate. Eko Federal

Thats why it has a soul. Eko o ni Ba je.

Can we not remember the important people he killed, ken saro-wiwa to name but one

False Abacha did not kill Ken.

The court of law found him guilty and sentenced him to death.

Go and ask the judge that passed that 'death-sentence'.

beystwin:
Abacha is a saint?

Lord have mercy! that coming from IBB, I am not surprised he is also a saint including hitler and mobutu seseko. all the saints in the house holler.

well, it all depends on who define SAINT. is pope a saint?

Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas on 18 June, 1452. It authorised Alfonso V of Portugal to reduce any “Saracens (Muslims) and pagans and any other unbelievers” to perpetual slavery. This facilitated the Portuguese slave trade from West Africa.

yes ABACHA is a saint when compared to this pope and OBJ.

texazzpete:
um. . .Wyoming, Oklahoma, Missouri et al are all INDIAN NAMES!!!

PS: Despite the fact that most of the present day Americans emigrated from great britain, the word 'America' is not of British origin. See any poets making noise about that?

Please kindly forward my earlier offer to the 'poet'. There's a lot of work for him to do, the traffic at Rumuobiakani (did i spell it right?!) this morning was terrible. You can also join him since you're apparently lacking in work to do.

thats exactly the point. They formed a new identity for themselves.

Oklahoma was named by the indians themselves and not the EUROPEAN invaders as one of the negotation points in1865.

And its faultless; Nigerians dont identify with Nigeria; if US/EU FREELY open their gates.

Nigeria will be empty in 24hrs; it would be exodus!

The POET has spoken.

Nigerians don't identify with Nigeria. . . . What hogwash! Where do they identify with? Pakistan?

if they identify with Nigeria;

why steal money here and take it abroad?

why send your kids to school abroad?. Note BOLD its not same as 'exchange program'; just to see whats done in other places

why run away abroad when small wahala here?

why obey laws abroad and same nigerians break all laws once they land in MM?

why is it that degree abroad is valuable than degree from here?

why is it that Nigerians kill each other at slightes provocation?

why is nigeria waiting for abroad to come and solve their problems?

The problem of identity is sublime but it's what shape everything.

Thats why the EUROPEANS that went to America, killed all the RED-INDIANs and change everything to identify as their own history.

It same reason UK will never change their identity to be French or French to German etc

The worst part of colonialism or occupation; it rubs you of your identity.

what Nigeria presently witnessing are just after-effects; we live in Nigeria but dont identify with Nigeria.

it is similar to what we just saw in South Africa last few weeks

People that live others people's life are lost.

You guys need to see the Big Picture; Kudos to Onwumere.

Yes, Abacha was saint compared to OBJ.



if you have contrary view provide facts and not some idle talk.

PS: Does he know how many streets are named after Patrice Lumumba? Or the university in Russia formerly named after Lumumba? The streets in Western countries named after Nelson Mandela?

you missed the whole point.

There is no problem naming place after successful/famous people but the naming of that town to PORT-HARCOURT was not from the people of that area; it was impose on them by some colonialist as sign of master-servant relationship.

the problem of identity is sublime but it's what shape everything.  For city to develop and be prosperous; the people need to identify with it.

Thought Provoking,

what is in a name?

Nigeria was named by Lugard's wife when he was on top of her; could that be why Nigeria is so messed-up?

Who is Harcourt to own Port Harcourt?
By Odimegwu Onwumere

THEY called him Lewis, Viscount Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies of Britain. Harcourt was said to have founded a port in the year 1912 now known and called Port Harcourt, which is the capital city of the present day Rivers State, Nigeria. But Rivers State was created, as a state in Nigeria, in the year1967.

But how did the rapacious Harcourt found the now called Port Harcourt whereas there were people (blacks) who were living in this port before the alleged discovery, and they called it Igwe Ocha? The population of Port Harcourt is estimated at 1,320,214 as of the year 2007, of which no lineage of Harcourt was included. Igwe Ocha lies along the Bonny River and is located in the Niger Delta. We were meant to understand that the initial purpose of the Port Harcourt founded was for him to export the coal which geologist Albert Ernest Kitson had discovered in Enugu. That in earnest means that there was a particular place, a small place, where this greedy Harcourt was using as his port, and should not mean the whole of Igwe Ocha, now called Port Harcourt. Still using the name Port Harcourt reminds one of what happened in the days of colonialism and the name Harcourt, in Igwe Ocha, showcases the hand of colonialism still intact in Nigeria.

However, after the equivocal Harcourt may have died chasing the trade of coal, Nigerians were enlightened on what goes on in the present day Port Harcourt. We are meant to understand that the main city of Port Harcourt is the Port Harcourt City Local Government Area. In this council there is Azikiwe Road, Aggrey Road, Eastern Bye-Pass, the beginnings of PHC-Aba Express Road and Ikwere Road as its major roads. And the Port Harcourt Urban Area (Port Harcourt metropolis) is made up of the city itself and Obio/Akpor Local Government Area. Its major roads are the extensions of PHC-Aba Express Road and Ikwere Road, Olu Obasanjo Road, Airport Road, East-West Road, Refinery Road, Stadium Roads and amongs many others.

Abuloma, Amadi-ama, Amadi Flats,Borokiri ,Rumuokoro, Rumuodara, Woji, Presidential Housing Estate, Rumibekwe Housing Estate, Shell Residential Estate,and Elekahia Estate, are towns or in African parlance villages in the Igwe Ocha. The main industrial area is located in Trans Amadi. But those who still hold to the colonialists' view said some of Port Harcourt's more popular and well-known residential areas are Port Harcourt Township; better known simply known as "Town", G.R.A phases 1-5.

The University of Port Harcourt and the Rivers State University of Science and Technology are two universities within the city. According to accounts, the city has an international airport, Port Harcourt International Airport, two seaports (F.O.T Onne, Port Harcourt Wharf), two stadia (Sharks Stadium and Liberation Stadium) and two refineries. As at 1967 when Rivers State was created, there were fifteen Local Government Areas (LGAs) in the State and when Bayelsa State was carved out in 1996, additional LGAs were created such that the present Rivers State is made up of twenty three LGAs. The State has many communities that organise community development efforts aimed at mobilising the local resources and assisting the State government in the maintenance of law and order. And this is not done by Harcourt or his descendants, if there are any.

The ethnic composition of Rivers State is very diverse, according to analysis. These include Kalabari, lkwerre, Okrika, lbani (Bonny and Opobo) Ekpeye, Ogba, Etche, Khana, Gokana, Eleme, Ndoni, Abua, Odual. Linguistic scholars have grouped these communities into six major linguistic groups, namely ljoid, lower Niger (lgboid), Ogoni, Central Delta, Delta Edoid, and Lower Cross. The ljoid group comprises four groups of dialects namely eastern ljoid (Kalabari, Bile, Okrika, lbani and Nkoro).

The Lower Niger (lgboid) comprises dialects such as Ekpeye, lkwerre, Ogba, Egbema, Ndoni, Etche, and lgbo. The Ogoni group includes a large number of dialects which can be grouped into four Khana, Gokana, Eleme and Tai. The Lower Cross group has only one member in Rivers State, with the rest being in Akwa lbom and Cross River States. The language, Obolo, in this group, is spoken in Andoni and Opobo Local Government Areas (Salawu.

Like in other world's democracies, we are told that there are three arms of government in Rivers State. they include, The Executive Council; The Legislature; and The Judiciary. The State Executive Council is made up of the Governor, the Deputy Governor, and around 20 commissioners, special advisers and the Secretary to the State government. The commissioners are the overall heads of the ministries, while the permanent secretaries oversee the daily activities of the same ministries. The parastatals are organs of the government charged with the establishment and running of certain key economic areas of the State government. They are placed either under the supervision of the Governor or the Deputy Governor. The special advisers are assigned responsibilities in the following areas to enhance productivity and accountability: education, information, hotels and tourism etc.

We are also told that there is block called the Podium Block of Rivers State Secretariat, which is the icon of the city, an eighteen-storey building. It has the tallest building in the South/South and South/East Geopolitical zones combined. The city is sprawling in nature as building codes and zoning regulations are poorly enforced.

Igwe Ocha being a peace-loving town before the advent of Harcourt, the activities of several armed militant gangs have cast a huge shadow on life and commerce in the once peaceful town, in recent times. The gangs claim to fight for the interest of the indigenous people of Rivers State and the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, without going to fight Harcourt who exploited the land. These gangs are asking for a share of Nigeria's oil wealth. They are however better noted and feared for violent conduct that includes random and targetted killings, arson, kidnappings of both foreign workers and indigenous people and bombings. After a spate of violence in 2007, a curfew was imposed on the town. This was however lifted by the Governor of Rivers State in the last days of 2007. On new year's eve, 2007, Port Harcourt was once again rocked by violence which left at least sixteen people dead.

So, should we still continue to answer the name of this English man who looted us? What remembrance is there in answering Harcourt's Port, instead of Igwe Ocha? Igwe Ocha is African, not Harcourt. We have to look into this and make amends. The same is applicable to those who bear the white man's names. For what reason should the clergy prefer to baptize a child with the name of a white man instead of our local names? It is high time we began to look into most of these errors the white men caused us and begin to correct them; else we remain a people so confused forever.


Onwumere, a poet and an author, is the Founder, Poet Against Child Abuse

PapaBrowne:
He he. . . . . very soon we would all be wishing Obasanjo was allowed a third term. I really miss OBJ, El-rufai and the rest of the marvelous team.

absolute nonsense.

the only way to remove OKADA as means of public transport is improve the economy and reduce corruption.

China did it; they dont have to force anyone to stop riding bicycle, people let go since they have better standard of living.

Makoju had 8yrs with OBJ, we saw nothing but more DARKNESS.

PTF was a good project. I saw many things they did.

They were repairing roads, and building new ones.

But I suspect they did more projects in the north than in the south, i have no fact though.

Abacha killed about 20people in all. OBJ wiped-out the entire ODI village.

Abacha stolen from all sectors $3bill but OBJ in one section alone $16bil gone and nothing on ground.

Abacha started 'failed bank tribunal'; crook bank boss were sent to Jail.

Yes, Abacha was saint compared to OBJ. The only problem Abacha had; he was not liked by WEST, they demonised him.

OBJ had 8yrs with record level oil revenue and did NOTHING except sleep with his son's wife

mo ti pare. Pa reply ti e no re

FK,
mo gba gbe ni ano.

pe mi lori:
mo ti pare. Pa reply ti e no re

ma de pe e pada

FunkyBaby,
E nu e ti fe e

We must take control of our lives, waiting for the government is a huge waste of time in my opinion.

Good Plan but on the long run we will end-up with same scenario:

every corner is full of inverter/converter/subverter/commiter/permiter etc

Untill Nigerians can come together and start revolution; they will continue to have HELL ON earth.

If Nigerians are serious, they should have chased OBJ out of Nigeria into exile.

The current president will work for real interest of the people.

Fact: this is one fight Nigerians must fight.