₦airaland Forum

Obi1kenobi:
Except anyone with any knowledge of my posting history knows it's a falsehood to say I "turned a blind eye" to my people. Showing you up as a liar apart from being a fraud, you yourself have been one of biggest cheerleaders when I've attacked Igbo posters for making tribalistic threads. I certainly indulged your masturbatory Igbophobic fantasies when I was doing that. I've asked you to align with nothing. I've asked you to support nothing. I only want to know why you're a fraud who can't stand by his moral convictions as a bigot, like other people. Why?

Hahahaha....you have now become a fully certified joker. I told you quite clearly that you deliberately turned a blind eye to your Igbo brothers who peddle falsehood on this thread, but now expect Laudate to rebuke those who respond to them, in their own coin. And I stand by those words.

Yes, I supported some of your comments in the past. It appeared you were trying to refute the asinine, illogical, untruthful comments, made by your brothers. I did not see it as you attacking your Igbo brothers, but as an effort you were making to enlighten them. Did you find my statements offensive, at that time? Why didn't you say so, then?

You are the one who has clearly shown up on this particular thread as a liar, and a fraud, judging from your comments. Deal with it. Thank God everyone can read.....

deji17:
It has not come to that. Have a good day.

It has not come to.... what? The fact that you do not want to conduct research, and you want me to spoon feed you with info?

Obi1kenobi:
If your only real grouse is the "contemptuous mindset" and "derogatory comments", you would not spend all your time focused on attacking one group and very obsequiously brown-nosing another group, for the simple fact that Nairaland is not short of bigots from other tribes to focus your fake, phony moral grievance on. I've asked you to align with nothing. I've asked you to support nothing. I already know what you align with. I only want to know why you're a fraud who can't stand by his moral convictions as a bigot, like other people. Why?

_(sigh) Don't you ever get tired of playing this victim card, or fostering the persecution complex that appears to be trending among your people? The only fraudulent person here is you, who has deliberately turned a blind eye to his Igbo brothers who peddle falsehood on this thread, but now expects Laudate to rebuke those who respond to them, in their own coin.

Like I said before, you obviously want to trend. Has my effort to help you get your 5 minutes of fame, been useful? You don't need to thank me. Or would you prefer an extra 15 minutes of adulation? Yes? Or do you want to whine a little longer about your "fake, phony moral grievance," and fling around more unsavoury epithets?

Balyz:
After all the insults we are forced to contend with everyday? Man just forget it

Oh, so you sef don see am?

Seun360:
For fair play reasons, the Igbos deserve Presidency.

The Presidency has never been dashed out to people on the basis of fair play. If anyone wants the Presidency, he must work hard to build bridges across the ethnic divide. He must persuade others that he has their interests at heart, while making it clear that he understands their aspirations and problems, and he is in the best position to actualise their dreams, wants and needs.

blackpanda:
They will still have another 8yrs. because igbos cant get their acts together. They more interested in playing d victim card, abusing every other tribe but pretending to be surprised they dont support ur ambition

Oh my lawd...! Una don start again!

Obi1kenobi:
As said earlier, a self-absorbed clown. Of course you thought I was "too smart" to exhibit this mindset because only people who attack Igbos are "smart". The effect of being an Igbophobic bigot who gets his kicks off his Igbo obsession.

You mean I should show the countless number of times you use IPOB as a prop in your Igbo obsession, even when IPOB bears no relationship with whatever bile you come up with, or the number of times you're at pains to tell us how you're not Yoruba and have mixed heritage, as if that adds validity to your Igbophobic obsession? No. Not interested in wasting the effort. Keep rehashing the mindless shiit about what you "debunked" as if I had any interest in whatever you were arguing about. I only want to know why you're a fraud who can't stand by his moral convictions as a bigot, like other people. Why?

Abeg, I no fit laugh again....! You keep throwing around wild allegations of 'Igbophobia,' 'bigot,' 'Igbo obsession', simply because I have refused to align with the contemptuous mindset of your people, or support the derogatory comments they spew out in the direction of other ethnic groups.

Yes, I will keep repeating the fact that I debunked the false narrative your brothers were peddling on this thread, and that is why you are so aggrieved. Your brother PDJT made some false remarks, and I responded with real-life examples to show him where he erred. He then made a hostile comeback to my comments, which I promptly refuted. You took the opportunity to latch on to my response to him, by quoting my reply, and ascribing all kinds of wild and imaginary sins against the Igbo to me. Can you see how illogical you truly are?

Guy, now you still want to throw another tantrum against Laudate? Please feel free. Like I told you before, the easiest way to trend on NL is to take potshots at my moniker. I know it gives you a high. I am happy to have been of service, in granting you your 5 minutes of fame.

DerideGull:
You seem to know all this fact including the everlasting bitterness of the civil war yet you are always on Igbo issues with wanton display of ill intended venom. You have claimed not Yari.ba on this forum on many occasions which is very meaningless however your ill-motivated actions make more Yari.ba than not. My grandfather told me never to forgive an onlooker or bystander who seem to point out my vulnerabilities to my principal opponent in a war of hand-to-hand combat.

Hehehe.....see this one! Here comes another loud-mouth ranting about only God knows what! Bia, dem take wild allegations swear for una? Biko, please provide solid incontrovertible proof to show that Laudate is Yoruba. Include the name of his village, town and local govt area. Don't forget to add the name of his traditional ruler, too. Every correct answer gets 20 marks!

Obi1kenobi:
Which part of this convoluted twaddle refutes the basic premise that you're an Igbophobic fraud who claims to be some kind of neutral arbiter with no biases, but gets an orgasm on any anti-Igbo thread? Nobody is looking to draft you into anything, you self-absorbed clown. As if your "support" makes a difference to anything. The point again is why you keep peddling a transparent fraud that every discerning person can see through. Why?

Guy, your pain over this matter is so palpable. And I repeat: you are aggrieved, simply because I used various facts to debunk the false narrative your brothers were peddling on this thread. That is why you exhibited the same behaviour your brothers are known for on NL, by flinging around baseless accusations, such as 'Igbophobia.'

Now kindly show me in black & white, where I claimed to be "some kind of neutral arbiter with no biases...." Please paste it here. Where did I make that assertion in writing?

You keep mentioning my moniker, because you and your brothers know full well, that the best way to trend on NL is to take pot shots at Laudate. I once thought you were too smart to exhibit this mindset, but it appears I was wrong. Honestly, awards should be given for popularity on this forum. I guess I would get a few. The number of your Igbo brethren that have become famous on NL, by simply clinging to my mentions, keeps increasing by the day! Wonderful!

deji17:
Could you tell me summary of your own findings? You mean they have always display this amount of hatred to other ethnic groups since 2006 and possibly beyond '06?

Haven't I asked you to go and do a search on the posts online on NL, from that period till date? You can also visit other Nigerian social media sites from 2006 till now, to confirm if it is true or not. You haven't even done that yet, and you are coming back here to ask me about 'my findings?' Do you expect me to spoon feed you with info, in this era of cheap data bundles and online search engines? Conduct your research, and draw your own conclusions please!

Obi1kenobi:
I've stated clearly what I don't give a shiit about. If you choose to exhibit the comprehension level of a senile person, that's your problem, I guess. Tribalistic cartel? I like the old trick of projecting your pathologies on others to mitigate yours. The oldest trick in the book
Yeah, thank god everyone can read and can identify a bigot who deludes himself that he's deceiving anyone for what he really is.

_(yawn) Another misguided rant from your end....! This matter is surely causing you a lot of pain.

Well since you made reference to "the old trick of projecting your pathologies on others to mitigate yours....", I guess it is something you know a lot about, or something you must have practised often in the past, which is why you find it so easy to accuse others of doing such stuff. So tell us, where did you learn such tricks?

Anyway, thank God everyone on NL can read, and they can all see that delusion has been oozing from your keyboard. You are just aggrieved, because I used various facts to debunk the false narrative your brothers were peddling on this thread. So by making false, wide-sweeping allegations of 'bigotry,' you felt your misguided attempt to draft Laudate into your clique of internet warriors in support of the Igbo cause, would gain some traction. Hehehe....let me laugh very well. Sadly, your efforts did not succeed.

If my comments still cause you so much pain, kindly go and have a long in-depth conversation with the Lagos lagoon!

Nowenuse:
Hausas are a lost tribe. No amount of insults you will give to them inspires any form of remorse from amongst them. The person you are talking to will most likely be a fulani.

Besides, I think Nigeria did not divide then in 1966 cos the Igbos were taking the Southern minorities against their wish. Why did most Eastern minorities betray the Igbos at that time?

Because a lot of people from Eastern minority groups at that time were labelled as 'saboteurs,' torn away from their homes, and thrown into detention during that civil war period....

Nowenuse:
Thank you and God bless you for this. Keep ringing this kind of message to your fellow Igbo brothers who always rant without reasoning. They don't know that the cause and solution to a problem always lies within.

I don talk say I no go talk, but....! Wait first, what do you mean by 'rant without reasoning?' Where is their Defender-In-Chief, who wants to engage the support of Laudate against those who dare to say a word against his brethren?

Nowenuse:
Ok, we agree. Other Nigerians hate Igbos.

But after all the crying and moanings of victim mentality, what next? What next, I ask again?

Really, for a tribe like Igbo who claim to be so creative, industrious and wise. I have really not seen any extra-creative pan-ethnic decisions embarked on by you guys, in spite of all the millionaires and billionaires from your region.

Can't you guys come together with your state governments, form a sort of economic and regional coalition with the South-South state governments (for access to sea ports) and develop your land to be the Dubai of Africa?
I mean, apart from your large numbers of wealthy men and women, you have governors, senators, house of reps, ministers etc. Can't all these people use their brain and come together for once to make a move that will shake Africa? Then let's see how the FG and other Nigerians will come to sabotage these efforts.

But instead, your people prefer to flee your homelands and migrate everywhere else and claim to be developers of other places.

The best you people could come out with was that Illogical childish behaving Nnamdi Kanu with no respect for quality reasoning and productivity.

Arrant nonsense. See, you people should stop disturbing other Nigerians with your victim menality nonsense cos you are responsible for your own problems.
Igbo founding fathers were part of the creators of the hell hole one Nigeria we find ourselves today.

Hausa-fulani elites are the only ones holding one Nigeria ransome and massively benefiting from the status quo. And guess what, they do this in connivance with your own Igbo elites and political class.

The average middlebelter like me, Niger deltan, Yoruba or Hausa masses are not benefiting from the status quo. That is why we support restructuring.

The fight of you Igbo masses should be against your own elites who have sold you over to the Hausa-fulani elites for their pocket gains. How many times have Igbo political class challenged the core-northern elites against the existence of one Nigeria? See how they shamelessly sold Nnamdi Kanu over, and you people would come here to disturb our peace!

Why did all Igbo politicians not take a unified stance in support of Kanu against Buhari, just like all the Hausa-fulani politicians in 2001 took a unified stance against President OBJ on sharia law, to the extent that OBJ was helpless about the issue?

It is really said that, ''The moment a mad man becomes aware that he is mad, he becomes well''.

Some people are mad, but do not know they are.

Hey okada, hol' am there! Na on top this thread I go match brake today. I no wan talk, I just wan observe. Wey my zobo, my kunu and my groundnut? This thread promises to be interesting!

Obi1kenobi:
Again (and read it slooooowly this time so it can percolate), I couldn't give less of a shiit about your attacking Igbos. You'll be just another in a loooong line of trolls to do so and I don't waste a lot of thought on mindless trolling. The issue is you are one of the few frauds who laughably attempt to mask your bigotry with a veneer of respectability. Quit peddling your rubbish about Ipob and whatever other prop you employ in your charade. We know you're an anti-Igbo bigot. You know you're an anti-Igbo bigot. Have the moral courage and integrity to accept who you are and quit peddling your transparent fraud that any fool on earth can see through.

The notion that I have a problem with someone "disagreeing" with me is patently absurd. You have been one of my biggest cheerleaders here in the past. I could go and dig up the threads, but I couldn't be bothered really. All I needed to do to earn your cheers and applause was to attack Igbos: guaranteed to get you aroused. I'm more than happy to confront opposing arguments civilly and in good faith. Yours though is a clear pattern of anti-Igbo fixation and duplicity. Having the courage of conviction to voice and affirm your bigotry earns your greater credibility and integrity than the transparent charade that everyone on Nairaland can see through.

You don't give a shiit about my comments, yet you respond with such lengthy posts wailing about bigotry, and alleging all sorts of real and imaginary sins, committed against your ethnic group! Wonderful! You obviously get a high from flinging around such myopic phrases as "We know you're an anti-Igbo bigot." Who are these set of people you refer to as "we?" Your tribalistic cartel? Sorry, but they do not hold the rights to NL, neither do they dictate the thought processes of everyone on this forum. Thank God, everyone can read. Now get a life and get off my mentions.

You are just disgruntled because I shared factual information that exposed the false, myopic views of one of your cherished Igbo brothers? If it bothers you so much, please take a hike!

T9ksy:
Thanks for the bolded above, o jare!

Infact, my first experience of tribalism (in the countty) was from an ibo woman who went out of her way to express how much dislike she has for me - an 11yr old boy, simply because of my tribe.

To say, i was lost for words will be the grestest understatement, i have ever made. The bigot was living in yorubaland and yet, still hating on yorubas!

Ehn? But I did not include Yorubas in my original post, nah....! You sef, check am well.

deji17:
But how come they were not openly and continously expressing the hatred until 2012 when Chinua Achebe wrote his book? Were they pretending before ? Were they angry but afraid to express their bitterness before?

If you have the time, please do a content analysis of different threads on NL from 2006 till date, and review different threads on other social media sites, as well. Read through topics that relate to the ethnic issue. And you will find your answers, there....

shallysgirl:
You need prescription to buy drugs with codeine.
The prices of these drugs has also been tripled as a control measure.

I see. I agree that prices have gone up, but within my area in Lagos, you still do not need a prescription to buy cough mixtures with codeine, as long as it is not more than 1 bottle.

shallysgirl:
Most regular cough mixtures do not contain codeine.

Ok. but could you tell me the proportion of cough mixtures in the local market that do not contain codeine? 10% or 20% or 40%? The reason I ask, is because most of the ones I see on the shelves contain codeine, and the most popular brand I have seen has been Benylin followed by Tixylix.

Obi1kenobi:
Funny you can say someone is playing victim while coming out with the emboldened paranoid nonsense. I've never attacked you here before and can't even remember how many months ago we interacted last. And those interactions were usually positive because you saw me attacking Igbo posters and approved of my comments. That is how YOU get your kicks on here. Any anti-Igbo bandwagon gives you an erection. Then he pretends it's all in commitment to a higher purpose when his sole focus is one group. The front page alone of this thread is filled with bile from many Yoruba trolls, but as always, phony that you are, only any negative post by an Igbo person riles you up to get on your high horse and pontificate. Your attacking Igbos isn't what I give a damn about. I don't care about that in the slightest. You don't see me calling out any of the Yoruba trolls insulting Igbos. My issue is your blatant dishonesty and duplicity. You're an anti-Igbo bigot. Claim and own that evident reality and quit the two-faced charade you like to put up.

I will repeat it again - you are playing the victim card. The minute anyone disagrees with your people or their perspective, they start wailing that he is attacking the Igbo. Wow! It doesn't matter how asinine their viewpoints may be. It is amazing that you have bought into that same mindset, and you are now so quick to launch e-missiles in the direction of those who do not share the myopic view of your clique, while you ignore those from your ethnic group who contemptuously deride others.

Lots of Igbo trolls exist on NL, posting all kinds of disgusting graphic images about other ethnic groups on different threads, but you deliberately turn a blind eye to their antics, and expect Laudate to rebuke those who respond to them in their own coin, on your behalf. How funny! Isn't this part of your two-faced charade, which you are so quick to accuse others of doing? You obviously know a lot about charades, and it is probably part of your nature, which is why you find it easy to accuse others of the very same things you are guilty of!

Now you are throwing a tantrum, because I have not attacked the Yoruba people who have taken your Igbo brothers to task. Why? Is that my job? Do you expect me to launch vitriolic comments in their direction on your behalf, or on the behalf of your people? Is this epistle of yours', some misguided attempt to draft Laudate into your clique of internet warriors that support the Igbo cause? Is that why you are so pained, and flinging these silly allegations all around?

If the front page is filled with Yoruba trolls, are you too scared to engage them on your own, that you feel the need to attack Laudate for not jumping into the fray? Or are you upset because I shared factual information that exposed the false, myopic views of one of your cherished Igbo brothers? Which one?

I am not surprised though. You have obviously taken a leaf from your people, in an attempt to cast aspersions on anyone who disagrees with you. Hehehe....like I said earlier, I leave the bigotry to you and your folks. Feel free to throw another childish tantrum, and fling around more accusations.....

5thElement:
Do you know that that's not an excuse in a court of law anywhere in the world?

"Your honor, my client peddles marijuana only because the high school kids patronize him a lot. He's only doing community service. He should be given an award, my lord..."

There's ready market for human body parts all over the world, does that make illegal organ harvesting legal?

There's ready market for illegal sales of firearms all over the world, does that make it legal?

There's ready market for cocaine, heroine, marijuana etc all over the world, does that make them legal?

Una just wan take style use laugh kill person for here....!

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AdiscoPele:
To be frank, Ibos were not like this until Chinua Achebe released his book, 'There Was A Country'.

That book changed the mindset of most young ibos of today who were fed lies.

I believe the man Achebe harboured hatred in his mind for too long and the only lasting legacy he could leave behind was the hatred in his heart.

We have heard stories and read books of genocides the world over but we have never read (or I have never read) any that states that a leader or statesman for the victims side planted hatred and expects his people to prosper.

Take for instance, Nelson Mandela, he surfered personally during the apartheid reigns of the whites in South Africa but when he was eventually released, he began to preach forgiveness and peace. So also, the Israelis never hold any grudge against the Germans even though millions of Jews were killed by the Germans during the holocaust.

But what do we have in Nigeria, a man, respected Nationally and Internationally, a renowned writer who knows the power of books decided to write rubbish against a nation where his fellow brothers brought to his knees.

The problem of Nigeria began on January 15, 1966, when some overzealous young soldiers decided to take over power from the elected politicians, hereby killing most of the leaders of Northern extraction, some leaders of Western extraction and non from the Eastern leaders was touched. After this, the Ibo's recident in the north decided to rub it in the face of the Northerners the success of the coup by jubilating in the open thereby mocking their host. The ibos were the major beneficiary of the coup because, Aguiyi Ironsi, became Head of State through a move by the Speaker of Parliament, Orizu Nwaifo(pardon my spellings) a IBO man that was spared by the young ibo soldiers. The President at that time, Nnamdi Azikiwe(Zik) another ibo man was said to be on vacation in the Caribbean while his fellow politicians of northern extraction were been massacred at home. This we all know led to the counter coup of July 15, 1966.

Simple logic is that the ibos were beaten in their own game and some of the ibos, especially Achebe, who it was stated was a propagandists of the Ojukwu lead government of Biafra, who never really suffered like the ordinary ibos who lost means of livelihood, families and some their lives, a man who enjoyed part of the foods sent to feed the dying children of Biafra decided to do what he knows best once again before he died. Even Ojukwu had forgiven all the atrocities and has also ask for forgiveness, and until his death(Ojukwu) believed in one Nigeria and even ran for the presidency of Nigeria.

I don't think, like someone opined above that the young ibo men were feed with hatred against other Nigerians by their parents is correct. I believe it was Chinua Achebe who has sowed the seed of discord and hatred in the minds of the ibo, and what he hoped to gain is what I can't phantom till this moment.

You are wrong! Chinua Achebe did not sow the seeds of hatred in their minds, like you claim. Those seeds had always been there, right from the end of the civil war. The contemptuous disdain many of them had for other ethnic groups, had always been a part of their outlook. All Chinua Achebe merely did, was to put it in writing....

oyatz:
I don't engage in inter tribal e-war but I get irritated when kids that were probably not yet born during the Jun-12 crisis come online to spew trash giving distorted account of what happened then.

Prominent Yoruba fought courageously against the annulment and military rule.
The following peoples and lots more sacrificed their lives in the process;

MKO Abiola
Kudirat Abiola
Admiral Elegbede
Pa Alfred Rewane

The following peoples were shot but escaped the attempted assassinations

Pa Abraham Adesanya
Alex Ibru

The following people were jailed/incarcerated without trials for fighting against Abacha.
Olu Falae
Gani Fawehinmi
Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti
Femi Falana
Ayo Opadokun (Secretary of NADECO)
Lam Adeshina
Journalists Kunle Ajibade, Babafemi Ojudu, Dare Babarinsa

The following people managed to escape into exile and started fighting through NADECO abroad.
Pa Anthony Enahoro
Prof Whole Soyinka
Sen Bola Tinubu
Sen Afikuyomi
Dr Kayode Fayemi
Air Com Dan Sulaimon.

During these period, thousands of Igbos packed themselves in Marcopolo buses and left Lagos and the whole southwest for igboland while prominent Igbo elites worked tirelessly for Babangida/Abacha to prevent realization of the Jun-12 mandate.
How genuinely patriotic igbos like Arthur Nwankwo, Olisa Agbakoba, Com Chime Ubani and few others supported NADECO and were opposed to IBB/Abacha

Wow! You chronicled the the names of the main actors who led the protest against the June-12 annulment, so beautifully. One of the genuinely patriotic Igbo men, who was also opposed to IBB/Abacha was former Chairman of NADECO, Rear Admiral Godwin Ndubuisi Kanu (rtd).

debbytempest:
Beautifying the type of bricks we have in Nigeria may just be the solution to the 17million deficits gab. We have gotten to the point where the low income and mid income earners which are the vast majority will beging to think of alternative way to get cheaper but durable structure especially in Abuja. In Abuja u have millions of empty hauses on one side because its extremely expensive, and on the other hand you have the vast majority looking for just a decent place to stay. If your bricks concept is durable and affordable, you may just be the solution that even the Nigerian government has been looking for

Exactly! You have hit the nail on the head. I thought that by now, some companies would have started the mass production of stabilised laterite/mud bricks, that people can use to construct their houses. In fact such bricks should be made available everywhere, like the cement blocks or sandcrete ones. Unfortunately, till today only a few artisans can mould these laterite blocks, and use them to build houses.

I hear that usage of stabilised laterite/mud bricks for building a house, can reduce construction costs by as much as 30% to 40%. If it was widely adopted, it could help to alleviate the housing shortage in Nigeria. Right now we have grossly expensive houses, with people who are unable to buy them because there is very little access to mortgage funds to purchase them. It is sad, really.

0monnak0da:
list?
I am your PA? Remind me how much you pay me again?
If you genuinely want to learn about codeine go and look into the Nigeria Drug Formulary Laws.

No need to be rude. Tramadol and Diazepam are clearly listed as drugs that are NOT to be sold without a doctor's prescription. Ask any pharmacist. But 'cough syrup containing codeine' is not. Until someone can paste the law here in black and white prohibiting cough syrup containing codeine from being sold across the counter, then kindly keep your hypothesis to yourself....

Obi1kenobi:
You just employed the same charade with your IPOB strawman. What does IPOB have to do with your jumping on every opportunity to attack Igbos? Why are those who exhibit your so-called "negative traits" and"launch vitriolic attacks" always Igbo? You didn't see any Yorubas doing that shey?

No point raising distracting nonsense about "playing victim". Your attacks evoke no such emotions because I learn to ignore those who brazenly troll. What I want to understand is why you put up a very transparent deception that seeks to legitimize your trolling as having sincere motives, when in truth, you're just a regular anti-Igbo bigot. I want you to own that and quit the phony charade.

'Attacked Igbos,' in what sense? 'Legitimise trolling,' in what way? Do you get a high from conjuring up all these lies? Or does it make you feel good to blame me, for the real and imaginary woes that have affected your people? Which one?

Again, you are playing the victim card. Your brothers on this thread have made several derogatory remarks, but you latched on to my mentions, because you wanted to trend? I guess that is the new thing now. Attack Laudate so that you can get popular. Ok, feel free to make more false allegations and whine louder, since that is how you get your kicks....

0monnak0da:
b This is absolute falsehood.
It is not an esential component. MOST do not contain codeine. Indeed codeine cough mixtures are banned in some countries.
The vast majority of cough mixturees are expectorants.
Codeine is not an expectorant but rather antitussive and it has the potential to cause respiratory depression and death and so its LEGAL STATUS is POM and not OTC. Codeine cough syrups are not for ROUTINE use but rather in exceptional cases of severe unremitting and chronic cough so it must always involve a doctor

This means there must be a name address and phone number on record for patient,pharmacist and doctor for weach prerscription and there is a limit per person.

How many cough mixtures in Nigeria do not contain codeine? 10%, or 30% or 40%? Can you list them? And can you also post the law, local regulation or drug guideline stating that a prescription must always be issued for a codeine-laced cough syrup before it can be dispensed by a pharmacist, within Nigeria?

Obi1kenobi:
Are you still pulling this "neutral", detribalized charade, where your "neutrality" seems to involve singularly focused animosity towards one group even on threads like this where most of the bile came from the tribe you are always at pains to deny you're from? We get it that you resent Igbos. The question is why you choose to advance this charade of neutrality that everyone by now can see through. Why not just own your bigotry?

'Charade?' What 'charade?' And where have I ever claimed to be advancing any neutrality? Must you lie in order to get your views across? I have always made it clear that I do not support groups like IPOB who launch vitriolic attacks against other ethnic groups, as well as those who exhibit negative traits and engage in ad hominem attacks to deride others, simply because they do not share the same perspective. I will not be neutral to such things...sorry, if it offends your sensibilities. You can stop playing the victim card, now. I leave the bigotry to you and your people.

Balyz:
Wrong. That was in the past. Now there is a law requiring a Doctor's prescription for codeine, a law clearly flaunted in the north by patent drug store owners, most of whom are Igbos

Really? Please when was this law passed? As at January this year, the National Assembly was proposing a new bill for NAFDAC, that would restrict the dispensing of codeine-laced cough syrups across the counter, but it had not been signed into law yet.

Members of the House of Representatives on Thursday raised the alarm over a sharp rise in drug abuse among youths in the North and demanded urgent measures to be put in place by regulatory agencies.

The lawmakers said Codeine and Tramadol were drugs abused daily by youths, because they were easily accessed over the counter. Members noted that consumers hid under the guise of drinking codeine to treat cough, but were in the real sense abusing the substance. A member from Sokoto State, Mr. Abdulsamad Dasuki, who moved a motion on the development, sought a ban on the sale of codeine and tramadol over the counter across the country.

He said the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control must introduce tougher regulatory measures to contain what could become a major national crisis. Dasuki stated that boys and girls were already abusing the drugs freely and becoming addicts in the process.

His motion was titled, “Need to Stop Abuse by Banning the Sale of Codeine and Tramadol over the Counter and Address its Abuse in Northern Nigeria." For example, members said statistics indicated that in Kano and Jigawa States alone, three million bottles of codeine were consumed by youths daily.

The House noted, “If this number is consumed in just two states of the 19 northern states, when the figures of the other 17 states are added, it is catastrophic.” http://punchng.com/drug-abuse-worries-reps-want-codeine-tramadol-banned/

NAFDAC is working with the Pharmacist Council of Nigeria (PCN), National Drug Law Enforcement Agency(NDLEA) and National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development(NIPRD) to arrest the increasing abuse of these cough syrups in Nigeria. NAFDAC is embarking on massive public enlightenment campaign on the dangers of abuse of codeine, containing medicines in Nigeria. The Agency has put in place strategy to limit the supply and distribution of codeine containing cough syrups, in Nigeria. Prescribers and dispensers are encouraged to prescribe and dispense these cough syrups rationally. Consumers are advised to take codeine containing cough syrups only on prescription by health care professionals. http://nafdac.gov.ng/index.php/regulation/160-nafdac-alerts/for-consumers/180-codeine-containing-cough-syrups

Consumers are merely advised to take codeine containing cough syrups, on prescription by health care professionals, but pharmacists are not compelled to sell the cough syrups only on prescription, like they do for Tramadol and Valium/Diazepam. However, most pharmacists restrict the sale of codeine-laced cough syrups to just 1 or 2 bottles per patient.

In the North, there have been reports of youths requesting to buy a whole carton of codeine laced syrups, from chemists and pharmaceutical outfits. Some ethical pharmacists refuse to sell such quantities to them. I mean how serious is that cough, that you would need a whole carton to cure it?

guterMann:
Here's the full quote if you care,unless you want to believe what you want to believe.

I have written in my small book entitled The Trouble with Nigeria that Nigerians will probably achieve consensus on no other matter than their common resentment of the Igbo,” he wrote under the heading, A History of Ethnic Tension and Resentment. He traced the origin of “the national resentment of the Igbo” to its culture that “gave the Igbo man an unquestioned advantage over his compatriots in securing credentials for advancement in Nigerian colonial society.”

He observed that the Igbo culture’s emphasis on change, individualism and competitiveness gave his ethnic group an edge over the Hausa/Fulani man who was hindered by a “wary religion” and the Yoruba man who was hampered by” traditional hierarchies.”

He therefore described the Igbo, who are predominantly Catholic, as “fearing no god or man, was “custom-made to grasp the opportunities, such as they were, of the white man’s dispensations. And the Igbo did so with both hands.”

He delved into history with his claim, asserting that the Igbo overcame the earlier Yoruba advantage within two decades earlier in the twentieth century.


“Although the Yoruba had a huge historical and geographical head start, the Igbo wiped out their handicap in one fantastic burst of energy in the twenty years between 1930 and 1950.”

He narrated the earlier advantage of Yoruba as contingent on their location on the coastline, but once the missionaries crossed the Niger, the Igbo took advantage of the opportunity and overtook the Yoruba.

“The increase was so exponential in such a short time that within three short decades the Igbos had closed the gap and quickly moved ahead as the group with the highest literacy rate, the highest standard of living, and the greatest of citizens with postsecondary education in Nigeria,” he contended.

He said Nigerian leadership should have taken advantage of the gbo talent and this failure was partly responsible for the failure of the Nigerian state, explaining further that competitive individualism and the adventurous spirit of the Igbo was a boon Nigerian leaders failed to recognize and harness for modernization.


“Nigeria’s pathetic attempt to crush these idiosyncrasies rather than celebrate them is one of the fundamental reasons the country has not developed as it should and has emerged as a laughingstock,” he claimed.

He noted that the ousting of prominent Igbos from top offices was a ploy to achieve a simple and crude goal. He said what the Nigerians wanted was to “get the achievers out and replace them with less qualified individuals from the desired ethnic background so as to gain access to the resources of the state.”

Achebe, however, saved some criticisms for his kinsmen. He criticised them for what he described as “hubris, overweening pride aand thoughtlessness, which invite envy and hatred or even worse that can obsess the mind with material success and dispose it to all kinds of crude showiness.”

He added that “contemporary Igbo behavior(that) cab offend by its noisy exhibitionism and disregard for humility and quietness.

Nobody asked you for a long epistle. All we are saying is that when it suits your people, they wave Chinua Achebe's words around like a national flag, to justify their hate against other ethnic groups, and to play the victim card. But they refuse to adhere to his words of advice to jettison the bad aspects of their crass behaviour.

macof:
Actually I must say my argument is against promiscuity. I understand sex a few times out of love for the guy but when that reaches a stage of what we in Lagos call "Olosho" she is just a weak woman who enjoys being used and such a woman can never make a good wife, her psychology is already damaged, her priority misplaced, her body used, her character bad. There is still nothing better than a virgin, it is a sign of self discipline and a woman who cannot allow herself be used - this tells a lot about her character

I have noticed many men are against decency and abstinence in the form of this "virginity issue" because they fear a situation where young girls no longer want to be used but focused and improve themselves... hence no free punna

Yes, the argument should be against promiscuity and sexual recklessness. But, saying that there is still nothing better than a virgin, shows you have missed the point being made. Emphasis should be placed on a person's character, and not simply his/her virginity. Are you saying that if a man marries a virgin, such a person cannot turn round later to cheat on him with another man? Afterall, every prostitute was once a virgin.

A woman who remains a virgin, may merely have done so because she was never exposed to a decadent environment, and not because she took active steps to protect herself, from falling into temptation.

If you are a virgin, do not seek to be disvirgined. And if you are not a virgin, do not sleep around. Period. Every man or woman to his own.