₦airaland Forum

PassingShot:
Desperation of Jonathan and the willingness of our security outfits, if not checked, will truncate democracy in Nigeria.

Our loquacious DSS spokesperson would gleefully have TAN-style painted all media red were there confiscated PVCs. It's embarrassing to see how near-unprofessional the apex of our supposed Intel agency in their approach.
- they claim to have been monitoring the place for 2 weeks following a tip
- yet they had no idea it was an APC office until the operation
- the shabby near crude manner of detail confiscation was so terrible, the "intel" would easily tamper with evidence if any.

Since the insurgency, the DSS beats its chest to have arrested over 5000 suspects, yet not a SINGLE lead to even one verified sponsor! The best motive so far as opined by Ogar is that bombs go off each time APC losses elections! What a sick analogy.

The determination of DSS to deliberately stall trials of Ogwuche and Ali Ndume deepens the suspicion that there verily might be much more than eyes can see on this issue and many other issues of national concern!

Aprime:
What is actually frightening is the very fact that our oga at the top patronizes these very airports almost every weekends. But yet he finds them up-to-standard. Now think of the other things he finds comforting....

I guess the excuse must be that he uses the VIP terminals which are way better off!

barcanista:
As long as he influences a few number of votes for Buhari, no wahala. When Buhari get to power he will deal with all aof them both in APC/PDP/APGA/LP all of them. The corrupt ones will pÀy to the last kobo while the non corrupt will get justice.

I just love Barcanista!

Same report had been circulated in the media 2wks ago. Only difference is the replacement of the name - Atiku with GMB.

Arch1:
What happened to the fictitious ceasefire deal that the Federal government ridiculosuly claim to have negotiated with Boko haram.

The security of our country is at an all time low, no thanks to president Jonathan, the weakest commander-in-chief in the whole world who will always give excuse and blame others for his own failures.

Blame opposition parties
blame past administration
blame Buhari
blame the North
blame moslems
blame Yoruba
blame America
blame South africa

Lame government!

Abagworo:
The reason why the rich are scared of Buhari is his uprightness and nothing more. The corrupt elite believe Buhari will kill their empire. Especially IBB.

You said it all. Every other thing na story for the carpenter. It's the call of Nigerians now. The IBB's that took us down our knees should let us be!

barcanista:
One of the few decent Public Servant Nigeria ever had. Those who know her calls her "Madam Due Process".

Yup. I met her for the first time early 2005 in her village at Nkpor in Anambra state. I was shocked her children (the twins) attend a FGC! And the son was in UNN then.


It's sad that our society has so corrupted our thinking. And our education is best qualified as a distraction to keep us away from roaming the streets than adding to our sensibilities. We have lost a sense of responsibility, purpose and history. We're a trackless generation. Sad!

Can someone please share the update from Eruwa?

Hope it works out or are we moving on ahead with plan B - UCH? What budget are we looking at.

Stay strong DjDola

Dear Hammed,
Remain strong. You will be well Insha Allah.

Fellow Forumites,
Let's save the rhetoric and put in place concise plan of action. Time is of essence here. I suggest we have a group of say 5 Forumites to decide on the modus operandi and we follow. We've expended 36 freaking pages already on banters!
I suggest the egg-head group include:
1. @caracter: for the role played so far having the confidence of the Op.
2. At least 2 forumites with sound medical or paramedical background to decipher these chains of acronyms.
3. An enthusiastic forumite geographically close to the Op.
4. Any other member(s) highly committed to this cause.

As for me, I pledge my support and shall woo those of folks around me to the best of our capacity.

May His mercies shroud you.

45% Amuwo Odofin, Lagos.

yemaldo:
same in amuwo odofin

PVC collection is postponed to 28 Oct in 11 LGAs - yours inclusive!

SLIDEwaxie:
like the govt cared...
Check out the increase in the construction costs..massive corruption!

I remembered when yar adua budgeted 50 million naira for independence, Jonathan entered and increased it to 50 billion claiming we shld av a memorable 50th year anniversary...

We no see wetin dem use the 50 billion do o...except bomb blasts sha, for abuja

Sad bro.

GEJ actually ballooned it to N10bn not N50bn. He buckled under public outcry that the sum would be proud. That was his very first proclamation on probe. There never was a result! Few weeks later, approval was granted for the purchase of 3 jets for the presidential fleet. 2 Falcons and 1 Gulfstream V.

That was when i made up my mind!

I insist that Akpabio has got more original [/b]capital projects to flaunt for his 8yr rule than the FG for the 6yr rule thus far.
[b]
#Akpabioism!

On decree 4, it might surprise you all to know that the Buhari government is perhaps the only government that NEVER shut down a media house. Yes! Pressmen were arrested for inciting or unsubstantiated publications but never was a full media house shut down.

Of Shagari, Shonekan and Abdulsalam governments, i'm not sure but ALL others did since end of civil war to date! Yes including Yaradua and Jonathan.

It is interesting to also note that in 1999, the House Rep member representing Kaduna South (south of the capital city and not the state itself) constituency is a South Easterner, forgotten his name. Binta Koji from Adamawa state (now married and a Senator representing her very state) took over in 2003. Many Yoruba dudes are LGA Chairmen and Councillors in Kano and Sokoto. The Lagos State Commissioner for finance for over a decade is an Easterner!

Our very High Chief Nnamdi Azikiwe held sway in Lagos and Ibadan for almost a decade after Herbert Macaulay left the scene. It was Awolowo that moved a motion that a Pilgrimage Board be set up for Hajj Pilgrims! He is a Christian!!!

How did we get in this mess?!

Toying With The Fire Of Religion
While retiring as the Chief of Army Staff in 1979, Lt Gen Theophilus Danjuma expressed profound fears about Nigeria’s future. “I am not aware of any nation”, the Daily Times reported him as saying, “which has survived both a civil war and a religious war”. Religious bigotry and manipulation had by this time not become an issue in Nigeria. That was why Alhaji Shehu Shagari, a devout Muslim, who was to become Nigeria’s first executive president on October 1, 1979, appointed only Christians to head the military and the police force. Lt Gen Gibson Jallo was made the Chief of Army Staff, Admiral Akin Aduwo the Chief of Naval Staff, Air Marshall Dominic Bello the Chief of Air Staff and Mr. Sunday Adewusi the Inspector General of Police. The succeeding government was going to be headed by two Fulani Muslims from the Northern part of Nigeria, namely, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, who was the Head of State, and Major General Tunde Idiagbon, who was the Chief of Staff at the Supreme Headquarters. There were no protests or even murmurs anywhere. We all thought that a true nation had all but emerged, a nation where tongue and faith “may differ, but in brotherhood we stand”.

Nigeria is today, however, at a crossroads. Our future seems not as certain as most citizens would have wished. The cause of the perplexing uncertainty is religious politics all right, but it is not the type represented by the Boko Haram menace. After all, Boko Haram terrorists do not appear to want Nigeria’s dissolution, but the country’s full islamisation through the most primitive kind of violence which borders on sheer savagery. The real threat to Nigeria’s future is the religious politics promoted, amazingly, by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with gusto. Determined to return to power after the 2015 general election, the PDP has sought to cast the main opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC), as Nigeria’s version of the Muslim Brotherhood and Nigeria’s answer to the supporter of APC of the Sudan, despite the huge contradictions. Even though the APC has yet to choose its presidential candidate, the PDP has been accusing it of promoting a “Muslim-Muslim ticket”.

This must be the first time in Nigeria’s history that a ruling party and its government have gone out of their way to promote religious acrimony in a nation already almost paralysed by all manner of fault lines. Despite being a devout Muslim, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, our first prime minister, recognized the State of Israel and established diplomatic relations with it. The diplomatic relations were broken in 1973 by General Yakubu Gowon, a devout Christian, in the wake of the six-day Ramadan or Yom Kippur War which saw Israel annex the Sinai Peninsula, a part of the African territory. The relations were to be restored by General Ibrahim Babangida, a Muslim.

Every Nigerian must be worried by the current mindless promotion of religious bigotry. Faith is founded on the most powerful sentiments in human beings, and not reason or rationality. Divisive politics based on religion have proved to be most destructive in human history. Religious politics manipulation by the late Jafar el Nimiery from 1973 destroyed the Sudan, eventually leading to its breakup in 2011. Religious politics was responsible for the Balkan War which broke up Yugoslavia in the 1990s into three different countries. Religious politics led to the carving out of East Timor from Indonesia in 2002. Religious politics held Northern Ireland down for decades until the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 promoted by United States President Bill Clinton led to the enthronement of reason. Religious politics between Christians and Muslims is responsible for the ongoing carnage in the Central African Republic.

Can Nigerian politicians ever learn from history? The whole world has been marking the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda in which about 8,000 people were butchered, including bishops slaughtered in churches by their own church members. I was expecting all Africans, especially Nigerians who like to see themselves as leaders of the continent, to use the anniversary to reflect on this colossal tragedy and sincerely resolve “Never Again!”. But the anniversary has gone on unnoticed in these shores. We have rather been treated to a ceaseless frenzy of unprecedented and unimaginable intolerance and hatred spewed by our own citizens manipulated by our so-called leaders in the name of politics. No society can survive on an ideology of mind poisoning. How could anyone in good conscience call General Buhari, for example, a religious bigot when, as military Head of State from 1983 to 1985, he had absolute power, and yet no adherents of any religious tradition suffered injuries as a result of their faith? Is this not the same man who dealt with Maitastine religious terrorist decisively in the 1980s when he was a general officer commanding?

There must be boundaries in all human endeavours. There must be a limit to politics. Those who play religious politics in heterogeneous societies must be the worst enemies of their people. Is it sectarian politics that took Brazil or Dubai or Indonesia or Malaysia or India to the dizzying heights of development? When will the Blackman get it right? When will the Nigerian politician begin to work to make the world respect Africans?

As the leadership of the ruling party in Nigeria presses ahead with the extremely dangerous politics of religion, I wonder if this is not the country where the Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate in the June 12, 1993, election, Chief Moshood Abiola, chose a fellow Muslim, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe, as his running mate, and the whole country voted for them like one man? Is this not the country where Alhaji Lateef Jakande, while running for the office of governor of Lagos, a religiously diverse state, selected a fellow Muslim, Alhaji Ganiyu Dawodu, as his running mate, and he was given a resounding mandate? Is this not the country where Chief Bola Ige, while running to become the governor of religiously diverse Oyo State, picked a fellow Christian, Chief Sunday Afolabi, as his running mate, and won overwhelmingly? Is this not the country where Professor Jerry Gana, a well known Christian evangelist, won an election in 1993 as a senator in a district in Niger State with 90% Muslim? Is this not the same nation where a Fulani Muslim, Alhaji Umaru Altine, was elected mayor of Enugu, capital of Eastern Nigeria which could well be called Nigeria’s Ireland? Come to think of it: are we making progress or regressing as a people? Frankly, if there is any group which can afford religious politics in Nigeria, it should not be the PDP.

Its top leaders like General Ibrahim Babangida took Nigeria into the Organisation of Islamic Conference and its leaders like the late President Umaru Yar’Adua took the country back to OIC. Almost all the top officials suspected of starting and sustaining Boko Haram over the years like Senator Nduma and ex Governor Modu Sheriff are its top members. Interestingly, no APC member has been accused of strong links with Boko Haram.

The present generation of Nigerians should not capitulate to the religious politics being stoked by opportunistic politicians. Religious politics is, for all practical purposes, a contradiction in terms. Take my great friend, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, who was born into a Muslim family, attended a Christian school, married a Christian who is a Lady Auxiliary (or knight) of the church; he is at home in the mosque as he is in the church. For several years he has personally been driving his wife and children to the church and back every Sunday. There are millions of people like him all over Southwest Nigeria, in northern Edo State, in Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Senegal and even Palestine, among others.

We must reject outright the campaign that the forthcoming general election is a mortal fight between the Muslim North and the Christian South because it is false. There are states in the North that are mostly Christian; even in so-called northern Muslim states like Bornu and Kebbi as well as Sokoto there are sizeable numbers of Christians like and Benjamin Dikki, the Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, in addition the Generals Bamayis of this world. The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, is from Kaduna State.

I would like to refer those who play religious politics and by so doing threaten our collective destiny to the words of the great African American writer, James Baldwin, : “The fire next time will consume even the air”. May this apocalypse not be Nigeria’s lot. We have no other country.

*Mr. Adinuba is Head of Discovery Public Affairs Consulting.

Culled from: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/toying-with-the-fire-of-religion/193229/

Brilliant. Same was put in motion by former Katsina governor and President of the federal republic of Nigeria, Dr Umaru Yar'adua. Not sure if the enforcement survived his exit to aso-rock though.

Nice move. It's the only way to take collective responsibility for what is ours. The governor should lead the way like Awo did.

This divide-and-rule tactic had worked in the past.

This is the way they get you distracted from objectivity, making us all abandon leprosy to treat ringworm in a frenzy.

It's really insensitive to malign and cast aspersions on a man the President called his mentor via social media.
Today's youth self and the poor sense of decorum. Afterall the poor man is "not corrupt, he "merely" stole!". Haba!

And some dumb ediots actually bandy such nonsense as Northerners simulating all these horrors against themselves to make GEJ look bad.
I mourn Nigeria;
I mourn competence in leadership;
I mourn the dearth of common sense in our society

NAFDAC is seriously failing under this dispensation. Or how else do you explain how the stuff Okupe takes gets into the market?!

Cheap populism. If he so wants to be like the masses, he should quit the comfort of the State House and go live in the slums like the masses he so dearly love. Afterall the president of Uruguay is a ready example!

Confused Nigerians with a "confused" constitution!

Oh no! Not again!

This is how low we have descended
Suddenly it's 1983 all over again... but with a greater sophistry in corruption and of course in much more alarming volume at a moment our nation reeks of momentous infrastructural decay and ballooned public profligacy.

More donor Northerners in the list. Who said we do not love GEJ across the Niger? Who??

JIM NWOBODO got a 113yrs sentence
SOLOMON LAR - 88yrs

Eheheheheeee... Why are TANdroids pissing in their panties over Buhari.

The sheer exuberance to demonize this man is alarming. Why not simply promote the strong lines of your favorite candidate? The fact that Atiku, Sam Nda Isaiah and Kwankwaso have not even merited any assault from TANdroids shows where their morbid fear lies!

tosin2013:
Femi Aribisala: it is somehow reddish blue!!!


N.B; may God help Nigeria from political hatchet jobs

VERDICT: Abati's days are numbered. Aribisala's brilliancy like the moon, can no longer be shrouded with a piece of clothing. Atari malu koja nkan t'an ju s'apo aya - The head of a cow is more than what can be tucked in the b.re.ast pockets Welcome to Aso Rock sire!

The only interesting thing here is that the lights are not connected to the epileptic supply from the National grid. They are powered from the Lagos Island IPP which exclusively generates power to power hospitals, courthouses, the state house, some police stations, few school, street lighting etc.