₦airaland Forum

lastmessenger: Minimum of 7hour and maximum of 24 hours a day.although we still experience 0hour of light when there is a repair going on

"Wish" area be dis for Lagos abeg?

Muhylonaire: For my hood....dem jst bring am yesterday after 5days wit no light

We are on day 4 and i feel like a nightmare already!

Worst ever!
No light since Sunday - 72hrs and counting! No excuses, No explanations, No morals!

Festac/Amuwo axis.

safarigirl: I hope this doesn't mean we can't go and welcome our Golden Eaglets when they return with the U-17 trophy.

It says all forms of gatherings
We'll defy them sha

The level of ignorance in Nigeria is unbelievably alarming. And the realisation is disturbing. The Sukuk is becoming increasingly popular because its interest-free, and is guarded by strict ethics.

Mumudom!

Interesting

I luv Jonah's outfit. His face also goes with the occasion. Adieu Mama Sisi.

The disssing metted on the OP is really quite unfair. I believe he's got a right to air his opinion on service quality. We did that very too often with telecom operators. Konga has consistently made the 24hr delivery mark within Lagos. Isn't a 5-day delivery mark from Jumia too much of a contrast?! It took Jumia 2-weeks to deliver a product to a friend in Minna, Konga spent just 72hrs to effect same delivery.

Femke of the "Femke turns Funke"column - that German turned Nigerian - did puts it succintly when she said hugging mediocrity is a greater challenge to the Nigerian society than any other thing. Just because a Fashola bothered to repair Ozumba road at all gives him the clout to keep working on a 700m stretch of road for 2 whooping years; absolutely unpertubed about the pains and strains tax payers routinely go through on that stretch of road! Our pursuit of excellence will greatly reduce the impunity with which we get served. Afterall "customers" are kings, they say!

My opinion!

Ajibel: Make I just register my presence for hia Nigeria 6 1 Iraq . Iraq go score first we'd nau score 6goals in the last twenty minutes. A red card to the iraqi keeper cuz he'd deny us of many goals too our coach 'll be sent to the stands for being frustrated.. Iheanacho would get injured on his groin.. Nigerian players would be pelted by the irate iraqi fans after their loss and fifa 'd ban iraq from int'l football till mikel scores a hattrick for chelshit
























*crawls out of thread, dodging missles*

Are TB Joshua in disguise? He predicts soccer games too. Lol

Donovan: Why didn't Sepp Blatter remember Rasidi when he was roaming the street of Ibadan?

Sun re o egbon oninu re.
We love u buh God loves u more.

Did your own soccer administrators remember him today?! His very colleagues shunned his burial!

Weldone Blatter, at least you remembered him where his very brother faltered!

Great peice!

It's interesting to note that GEJ and IBB made the biggest single addition of aircrafts to the PAF.

GEJ's forceful decision against public outcry to buy 2 Falcon and a luxury Gulfstream V overnight was my decision-maker back then in 2010 that he's lacks ideas in prioritization. Obj bought 2 - one of which was a 2nd-hand which refused to take-off at a summit in Uganda.

[quote author=ojeka.]Yoruba politics, God is watching[/quote]Nope, this looks like a typical Muslim-Hausa-Fulani-Boko-Haram stunt. They are suspect!

I hope someday we'll grow up to realize that there are just 2 types of people in the world - Good people and bad people!

The stupidity called Media sensationalism should STOP. What has Muslims or mosques got to do with ASUU for crying out loud?

To make matters worse, this generation does not read nor reason! Pah!

Wsdm: He is managing his university. Sorry for the digress; so students that graduate from that school will be called Dokubo Asari University graduates or DAU graduates. The name sounds so uncouth.
If Jonathan didn't see any political enemy to tagg it on, he may just attribute it to God. "is an act of God".

King Amachree University please. Respect us and our would-be products.

[quote author=♥Dεs•Chγκσ♥]Back then, before the advancement of genetics, beans had much sulphuric contents, which make them harder to cook. But due to hybridization and progressive genetics, those with less sulpuric contents are being made everyday and sold to farmers. In time to come, we may only need cold water to melt the beans and it'll be ready.
Please, forget about all I said above, I have no idea what I was saying. Thank you.
*eats a spoon of beans and farts twice*[/quote]Interestingly, there are actually genetic modification in that respect. Some Indian scientists only recently developed a variety of rice that will not need cooking at all. Just soak like gari. You may rinse with hot water to serve warm afterwards. Might be on commercial sales soon.

As for beans... one minute... #a loud fart and internet is disrupted!#

ayodeji752: Asari Dokubo dropped out of Unical and Rivers state university. A dropped out is now establishing a university. These guys are rendering university degree useless

Well, more "good" news. He's on his way to being declared a CHANCELLOR and awarded dozens of Honorary Doctorate degrees.

Excelboi: That's bloody..... But i think the percent is kindly over-rated.

Communicate effectively. That, i think is a percentage closer to reality than you can imagine.

stephenobuks: Half of that delegation aren't amembers of the supporter's club!!! Am sure of that

Others include:
Ministers children on hols from European & American Universities
Bored concubines of officials
Estacode quota system in the Sport ministry - eg. Oga, u know say me i never comot ince January o
And others...

[quote author=Area-Fada]My lady, how old were you when he was military head of State?

I saw him live give a speech at a university when he was hos then. He said all the right things but went ahead to close several Radio Nigeria branches, cancelled Lagos metro plan and generally went ahead closing and cancelling things without any decent or progressive ideas of his own.
Or threat and soaking baboon and monkey in blood is the great idea to take us forward?

The little legacy credited to him were even Idiagbon's ideas (WAI, environmental etc).

May be those too young in his regime can be fooled.[/quote]Interesting. Lots of issues you raised and we might have to to just take them one after the other.

CLOSURE OF MEDIA HOUSES
The Buhari regime's media law was about publishing unsubstantiated news items. This is to avoid mis-informing the public, afterall "nothing sells like bad news" - Charles Tatum. It is in record that no media house was shut during this regime. However many journalists and news editors were jailed for not being able to give credence to their reports. It was really a harsh law by all ramification. I'm not plea-bargaining but IBB, Abacha, Obasanjo, Yaradua and GEJ all totally shut down media houses over slight pretexts too. It's more damning when you think of the high-handedness under civilian "rules". The recent news on the gold-plated iPhone comes to mind. Its purely speculative and an aggregate of misinformation. It had nothing to do with the State, so why drag govt into it? That's why gag laws are imposed by some govts eg LASG to control information dissemination.

LAGOS METRO PLAN AND ITS CANCELLATION
Be right back. Kinda busy....

Handsomeemmy: Sorry, if Buhari is the only candidate that any party will present to stand against GEJ, i will prefer to abstain from voting, i lived in the north and i know this man very well, if you are a southerner and lived in the north, you will understand better.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Well, i'm a Southerner born in Kaduna. Graduated from Unilorin, Served and started work in Delta. Currently in Lagos and married to a Kogite. I have visited Buhari's modest house in Kaduna. I stumbled on his nephew- Sanni during my 6month IT in 2003 at the Kaduna refinery. You can't help liking him. Simple to a fault. I bought Max Siollun new book, read his biography, undug my uncle's "17yrs of military rule in Nigeria" and "19yrs of military rule in Nigeria" published by Daily Times, half a dozen memoirs published by Prof Tam David West... I hated him and wanted a reason for it but the more i got close, the more i love and admire the personality in that lean frame. Infact i voted Yaradua in 2003.

Maybe you should read about the first Maitatsine uprising and how he dealt with it. Then check that against IBB's approach. Also read how he, as a GOC dealt with insurgents from Chad. And how he insisted to Shagari that pushing back insurgent into Chad wasn't enough but must be fully uprooted from source... long story.

Read please and know more or summon courage to visit him or anyone close to him.

emk4lif: Nice,The Archbishop served as Bishop Of Kano in his early years and as such has a strong link to nigeria...he was in nigeria earlier this year where he met with the president and the Nigerian Inter Religious Council

Thanks. Really wished most of us will shed the garbs of hate, ignorance and intolerance to see beyond the picture.

dayo23: [b]see fool! you hav forgotten hydro power cant generate without gas, [/b]beside kainji and shiroro hydropower only generate low capacity mega watt and serves mostly the northern state, Gas power and diesel power are taking over now and are in the south so go hug transformer you dis fustrated boko haramist.

Hydro Power can't generate without gas?! Interesting!!! You must be an engineer, i presume. A Power engineer at that.

However, the House Committee Chairman, Honourable Peterside, disagreed with the governor, explaining that it was unfair for anyone to say that the amount of oil being produced in the country was not known.

He explained that the problem was that most of the oil being produced was being stolen away, adding that the emphasis should be on how to curtail the activities of the oil thieves.

This man is CORN-FUSED!

Felt like crying reading this piece, and it's only a snippet of the true rot on ground. Hypocritically, UN has the biggest and most expensive peace keeping mission in the world based in this country. Well, the reality stares us blank in the eye!

Hardly had Mobutu Sese Seko, the former President of Zaire, met his ignominious death in his Moroccan exile, when his Belgian son-in-law Pierre Janssen spilt the beans in a book that has shocked the world. Janssen tells all and makes shattering revelations about the paradoxes in Mobutu's character and the true nature of life in his court. Fran?ois Misser and Alan Rake have both been reading A la cour de Mobutu - by Pierre Janssen. Published by Michel Lafon, Paris. (in French only).

There was a sad contrast between the discreet funeral in Rabat, Morocco, on 13 September attended by only a few relatives and the life of incredible luxury at Mobutu's court just months before.

His Belgian son-in-law, Pierre Janssen, has just written a spellbinding, insider's book that spills the beans about his father-in-law's extraordinary lifestyle. Now that Mobutu is dead he feels free to make shattering revelations about his adopted family.

Janssen, a young Belgian businessman brought up in a strict Catholic background in a respectable middle-class family, tells how he fell, by chance, into the big-time.

About $3m was spent on his wedding to Yaki - Mobutu's daughter by his first wife, brought up by his second wife on the death of her mother.

On the great wedding day Mobutu bought his daughter three different outfits, one for the ceremony at the Mairie (mayor's office), a second for the church, and a third for the evening party. All were designed by the top French fashion designers, Nina Ricci, Jean Louis Scherrer and Christian Lacroix.

A few days earlier "the Marshal", as Janssen calls Mobutu, had virtually emptied various jewellers in the plushy Place Vendome in Paris to decorate his daughter and his womenfolk.

Sparkling throng
No less than 2,500 guests were invited. Three aircraft were chartered to carry the guests - ambassadors, consuls, charges d'affaires, special counsellors, kings and princes, prime ministers, diamond magnates and Arab millionaires.

The sparkling throng drank over 1,000 bottles of the best French champagne. The cheapest bottle cost no less than $150 and the most expensive $750.

A special aircraft was hired at $75,000 just to bring the four-metre-high wedding cake from Paris. After the wedding the newlyweds were offered a house in Brussels, a villa in Kinshasa, an apartment in Monte Carlo and a Range Rover.

Janssen also tells of the splendours of Mobutu's palace at Gbadolite. It was protected by 40-metre-high iron railings topped in gold. The building itself was made of the best marble imported from Carrara in Italy or from Brazil. The chandeliers were made of Venetian Murano crystal glass.

He tells of the world jet-setters who poured in to meet Mobutu. They included Ted Turner, the billionaire husband of the American actress Jane Fonda and the boss of the CNN TV network, who wanted to launch an African news TV channel based in Kinshasa.

Mobutu's secret love life
Janssen also unveils curious details about Mobutu's secret love life. The Zairean leader married Mama Bobi, his uncle's widow, and also had an affair with Bobi's twin sister Kossia who bore him two sons. Both of these "mapassa" (twin sisters in Lingala) were extremely influential and powers behind the throne.

Mama Bobi became Mobutu's second wife. Her wardrobe with over 1,000 different dresses compared with Imelda Marcos. When she travelled, even on the shortest journey, Bobi brought a minimum of 100 trunks with her.

Mobutu's own staff learnt many tricks from their master. They bought champagne at $15 a bottle and sold it on to the President's household at three times more. Mobutu's trusted lieutenants and special advisers worked out dozens of scams to make a profit out of their boss.

Hostage to his women
In fact Mobutu was manipulated by his entourage. He was a hostage to the terrible twins that he had married, who had the final say over all financial decisions, says Janssen.

The "Great Leopard", as he liked to call himself, was also highly superstitious. He took no important decisions without consulting witch doctors from all over Africa. Most important was his Senegalese guru, Ndiuga Kebe.

Once he convinced Mobutu that some of his most valuable antique furniture was full of "bad fluids" that would attract evil. Mobutu got rid of the furniture.

One day Janssen surprised Mobutu in some secret ceremony as he was drinking the warm blood of a chicken. He found it so revolting that could hardly swallow it. Though Yaki told Janssen not to believe all the stories he heard about her father, on that occasion he could not help remembering all the unlikely gossip that he had heard about human sacrifice and even cannibalism.

How Janssen met Yaki
Janssen met Yaki through a Zairean business friend Jean Jacques Dambana, who himself had married Yango Mobutu, another of Mobutu's daughters. A frequent guest at the chateau Fond Roi, in Brussels, friendship with the beautiful Yaki sprung up as the young couple discussed skiing and cinema.

Soon Janssen found himself in the society of young members of the family. Even before they had taken their final school exams, they drifted around in the latest Mercedes cars and lived like princes in huge luxury apartments, spending from inexhaustible purses. Yaki herself did not go out much. She lived like a small wild animal in a castle, in the middle of a park, which belonged to her mother in the smartest suburb of Brussels. It had 15 rooms, seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms and the whole groundfloor was given over to servants and security men.

Janssen meets his father-in-law
Yaki took Janssen to see her father for the first time on his luxury yacht, the Kaman-yola, moored on the Zaire river. Mobutu met them alone in an immense dining room where the precious wooden panels were encrusted in gold. Loudspeakers diffused the music of Gregorian choirs. Mobutu introduced himself in elegant French. Then he clapped his hands and immediately he was surrounded by Maitres d'Hotel waiting on his slightest word. One of the dishes offered was monkey meat which Mobutu promised would be "beautifully prepared".

Later Mobutu took his son-in-law for a picnic in a jungle village. Mobutu drove his old Chevrolet shooting break himself, with Janssen sitting next to him on the front seat. The women were not invited!

Mobutu and the CIA
Janssen is not a political animal and he says he stayed out of Mobutu's politics, but he did learn a lot all the same.

Janssen says that much is explained by the fact that Mobutu was always a fanatical anti-communist, even when he was a young man making his first sorties into journalism, long before he had tasted power.

A year before the Congo's independence he had been head-hunted by the director of the CIA in the country. Two years later he was given the US Legion of Merit by President Kennedy. Then he met George Bush, just before Bush became the head of the CIA and agreed to make Zaire the headquarters for all CIA operations in central Africa.

Mobutu was hooked and absorbed huge quantities of CIA money in return for his services. The Americans used him as an intermediary in channelling money to Jonas Savimbi's UNITA in Angola.

A former head of the CIA in Zaire told Janssen that nearly $25m was sent through Kinshasa to the UNITA rebels. Mobutu made sure to take his cut.

Anything for money
As Mobutu's power expanded and his extended family became ever more demanding, he would do anything for money. The former Prime Minister of Belgium Leo Tindemans said at first he was impressed by his talent, power and intelligence. "Then everything changed and he was only interested in money, no matter where it came from - private companies or foreign governments. He had no idea about a financial policy...but what did it matter as long as the money continued to flow."

Janssen says he frequently witnessed how Mobutu always travelled with Vuitton attach? cases stuffed full of American dollars. No cheques for him, nor worthless Zairean currency, just hard dollars. Frequently Janssen heard him ordering his staff late at night to provide three million dollars ready for him to travel the next morning.

One day Mobutu was in a restaurant in the Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo, with the whole family. After a sumptious meal he was presented with a bill for $38,000, but this time his attach? case was missing. Mama Bobi had been "gripped with shopping fever" and had gone to Cartier's to buy jewellery. She had taken the attach? case with her. Mobutu sent out a messenger and Mama Bobi took out just enough money to meet the restaurant bill and then returned to her shopping.

Cracking jokes
Mobutu's French cook, Alain Troubat, in an interview with the Brussels daily, La Libre Belgique, describes Mobutu as charismatic, polite, and cordial with a strong sense of humour. Troubat says he liked to crack jokes especially about the Belgians, his former colonial masters. He says Mobutu was rich but gave away a lot to those around him, but those who became rich through him were not as generous to their dependants.

The retired Belgian ambassador Alfred Cahen told La Libre Belgique, "I know everything Mobutu can be blamed for, but he was my friend. When he came to power he was not in the army. He wanted to become a journalist but was recruited into the Force Publique. After that he was sacked from a Roman Catholic school because he spent the night with a young lady... He did a lot of great things at the beginning but absolute power corrupts absolutely.

"His greatest mistake was the Zaireanisation of foreign assets at the end of 1973... He started to jail all my friends... He became a dictator for sure and there was something in his nature. Eventually his worst side came out".

The sons of the late President Joseph Kasavubu, and the late prime ministers Patrice Lumumba and Moise Tshombe all blame Mobutu for the deaths of their fathers. However, Kasavubu's daughter, Justine, now the Congo's ambassador to Brussels paid a strange tribute to him, "Mobutu is dead, not Mobutism."

She meant that the culture of venality and corruption permeated every level of Zairean society under Mobutu's rule. It is now so entrenched in the system and will take years to eradicate. Mobutu had much to answer for.

Lar 50yrs?! Are you kidding me?!

Did you say Medi-School? How ironic?

GBENGA OBJ IS ALIVE!

adaobi123: I find it annoying

On my way to lagos from awka, this man was preaching for at least 1 hour and a half. I remember I tried to sleep, he nudged me to stay awake. After, he was giving out envelopes asking for donations - a minimum of N500. I gave my envelope back empty.

Lol! Had a similar encouter enroute PH, he actually started rebuking the spirit of sleep for waiving people's attention! I was like who dem be?