₦airaland Forum

bakila:
You have admitted his statement is wrong. None of them asked that Nigerians should buy guns, bullets and bombs to attack the Nigerian government. If the government of that day did not deal with them it doe not mean that Kanu should be condoned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fPQOPEH-0Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI95DOvNb8Y
Which this videos and truthfully answer if Kanu does not deserve to be in jail and have the same rejection he had at IWC. You answer will determine if you have a brain at all.

Have not and will never support Mr. Kanu's quest for violence till tomorrow, but the youngman has not done or said anything different from what most politicians and political jobbers like you in Nigeria had said before in this country and nobody had bothered to arrest them thereby rendering their utterances irrelevant and with time their agitation fizzle out, e.g Uwazurike's Massob and northerners sharia craze.

Nnamdi Kanu has become a major issue today because of Buhari's poor sense of judgement in arresting him.

-Jail Kanu, he becomes an inspiration and battle cry for IPOB members leading to more protests and possibly armed hostility (God forbid)

-Release him, he comes out hero with more people conscious of his ideaology and willing to become his disciples, politicians will seek his favour for acceptance among his followers thereby fanning the flames of IPOB across the nation.

Either in jail or a freeman, Kanu has scuttled Roachas ambition for 2019

Abagworo:
You are the dunce. Vanguard reports total falsehood and cannot be trusted. Show me the video of where the statement was made. The statement in itself is not a threat but an advice for a credible and acceptable election. We all know that it is impossible for Jonathan to win Buhari and that is why you saw it as a threat.

Show any link whatsoever where Buhari or any of his aides tried to deny he said that.
If Vanguard reports falsehood, then we should believe political jobbers like you?

You are a joke and a dumb one at that.

Abagworo:
Those ones are lies and unprovable but Kanu's own is recorded and fully in circulation. Don't be brainwashed.

Dunce...go and read it here -

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/2015-ll-be-bloody-if-buhari/

bakila:
Is the Kanu you mentioned the Idiot who said Igbo people in diaspora should give him money to buy guns, bullets and bombs to destroy Nigeria. Is Kanu the Idiot who said that Somalia will be a joke if he does not succeed with his IPOB? If you say he does not deserve to be in jail then you need examination somewhere around your head.
Kanu deserves to be in jail. The guys who are killing northerners should know that the East stands to loss the more in their desire to have Nigeria be a Somalia.

And someone threatened that 'Nigeria will burn if they don't win 2015 poll'. - El-Rufai
Another said 'Monkeys and baboons will be soaked with blood' if 2015 polls do not go their way - Buhari

If your brain is not knocked, you should know that there is no difference between Kanu's threat and the ones made by those fellows.

ruffDiamond:
okonjo,the fact remains that you nothing but a sophisticated international thief thief and criminal ...jonaidiot economic fraudstress and fanciful ,laughable FIGURE JUGGLERS ala the so called biggest economy in Africa stunt ..no worry yr turn go soon reach u go sing like a canary like dasuki ...

Stop displaying your st.upidity publicly.

iretiland:
Ngozi Iwealla lacks any credibilty to be taken seriously.

Mkpi mpama!

Your credibility is more than the numerous international organizations celebrating her and HER achievements globally.

Adminisher:
Oshiomole did not build a road in seven years?

How can you tell these lies and sleep well. I don't frequent Nigeria but there must be hundreds of roads done in his first term including some major ones in Benin city. I watched that one on NTA. He also did some roads in his second term but the number admittedly dropped. It does not make your point less effective 8f you tell the truth.

Stop being stupid and read the story here.

http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/rains-disturbed-edo-for-seven-years-thats-why-we-didnt-build-roads-oshiomhole/

Abagworo:
If 50 thousand Igbos are killed across the North tonight what will IPOB do? Please my brother those who lost have lost and we gained nothing from them. For me and my family we are in safe haven and can easily leave if war starts but I'm only worried about the helpless innocent ones who are not part of the IPOB politics.

There you go again, what has PDP loss got to do with Buhari's poor sense of judgement?
Did Kanu start IPOB in Buhari's tenure?

Afam4eva:
Abagworo should have just said "I am a Buhari supporter" instead of writing an epistle. If what you wrote had come from someone else, I would have considered. But when a partisan person accuses someone else of being partisan, i usually ignore.

Don't mind that hungry politician.

op the stupidity behind this your thread is linking IPOB protest to a political party and the politicizing of this protests by the government in Abuja is the reason that led to the poorly thought out arrest of Mr. Kanu which triggered the response.

The fraud and national scam called APC is being unveiled daily.

Oshiomhole that did not build a road in seven years because of rainfall was asking for N15 billion naira loan and Buhari approved it for him.

Shame.

buwanhot:
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Sorry this is a case of low self-esteem and not in anyway near rape.

Fell in love.
Consented to sex.
Aborted by yourself.
Will always make yourself available for him.
And return for more.

Taaahhh!! She was just foolish.

TonyeBarcanista:
Bros, is this APC/PDP thread or Nigeria thread? Keep politics out of this discuss if you want it to be fruitful.

Soverign National Conference is the only and legitimate conference. Power and Sovereignty comes from God through the people and not the politicians. Ethnic nationalities must come together to discuss Nigeria and not some political nominees and President's footsoldiers. Like I said, Abacha's 1994 Confab, Obj's 2005 Confab and GEJ's 2014 Confab were all talk shops, sham and politically motivated to actualise their personal agenda. Funny enough, all three men FAILED in their bid.

How can there be resource control without a clear cut definition of what percentage of oil proceed will stay with the hosts and what will go to the center. Perhaps, they want to sustain their present 'sharing formular'. Is that fiscal autonomy? How can there be resource control without clearly defining what % will remain with indigenous producers(communities) and what will go to their state/Local governments? That's rubbish!

We need a SNC and not any political Confab

This is a no-partisan discus and i wish it to remain so.

A political confab, like the last one, with far reaching consensus on the how & who manages what is generated in each region is agreed upon and the political will to do that is where the current regime comes in.

Afam4eva:
This is why we may never move forward as a nation because we always seem to know what people want more than they do. Why can't we have a confab thatvis no holds barred whereby people will decide their fate within or without Nigeria. We can't assume that everyone wants to remain in Nigeria. Anything and everything should be open for discussion.

If not that we live in a wicked country, I don't see how states or regions managing their own resources should need a confab.

Afam holding a no-holds-bar conference will only end up in confusion because the most extreme of views will advanced will be canvassed and put forward by some nationalities and moreover, the last confab was a no-holds-bar, the only caveat was the issue of our sovereignty and i agree with that.

TonyeBarcanista:
The agitation should be the convocation of Sovereign National Conference whose resolution will be tested via referendum and not be subjected to the political muscle of the NASS, like Jonathan's Confab. We have to be sincere with ourselves, Jonathan's Confab of 2014 was to further his political ambition for a second term just like Obj's of 2005(3rd term) and Abacha's of 1994 (Civilian Presidency). It wasn't a sincere Confab... Quote me anywhere.

The 2014 Confab couldn't be implemented for three reasion:
1. Buhari administration is not in sync with it.
2. Even if it was, it will not see the light of day in the NASS and States Houses of Assembly considering that its implementation will be against the interest of political jobbers.
3. The confab was silent on crude oil and gas resource control. We(Niger Deltans) demand for 25% derivation was ignored. Hence, it was a sham.

Buhari must convoke an SNC of ethnic nationalities. Nigeria need restructuring

The quarrel that legal personalities have with SNC is the word sovereign & i believe the sovereignty of Nigeria should not be querried by any confab, the question should be about HOW do we co-exist inside this sovereign nation & i believe that question was properly answered in the last confab. The south-south's agitation for resource control has already being answered by true fiscal federalism & no more need for any 25%.
The issue of political will by the current APC regime made up of mainly progressives that canvassed for this speaks volumes of their sincerity.

kingzizzy:
True federalism in Nigeria? It would be easier for us Igbos to get Biafra than for true federalism to ever come back to Nigeria. As far as most northerners are concerned, there's no difference between true federalism and Biafra................. and they are right.

Obviously the biafran agitation is not far from the push for true federalism. The only difference is their quest for sovereignty but the truth still remains that regimes with differs promises will come & go, the Nigeria ship will continue on the downward drift until we stir up the instinct of self survival within geopolitical zones that will stimulate extra productivity & stop this senseless craze for oil money from the centre.
As painful as this might be to some sections of the country, that is the only way for Nigeria to go in other to realistically achieve anything meaningful.

Yungwizzzy:
Stop talking federalism bro, when our person was there he did nothing for us

Bros it is not about what 'our' own person can do for us, but what WE can do for ourselves.

Yungwizzzy:
PDP"s ideas died with them

shikena

True & fiscal federalism was the war cry of NADECO & the progressive elements of the mainly south-west, it has never been a PDP idea.

The path to Nigeria's greatness should start from implementing the confab report and not in unrealistic campaign promises.

The oracle has spoken.

One unmistakable feature of the leaders of the mainstream South-West political class was their stand on the convocation of a national conference which would lead to the restructuring of Nigeria and adoption of fiscal federalism. That feature endeared them to me because it agreed with my view about Nigeria.

From 1993 when the struggle for the reversal of the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election started, restructuring of Nigeria was on the lips of the top players. The pan-Yoruba body, Afenifere, championed it. That same period, the pro-democracy group, National Democratic Coalition, which had members of Afenifere among its leadership, also championed the campaign for the convocation of a national conference at which Nigerians would come up with laws that would restructure the nation and make it a true federal state. Chief Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Abraham Adesanya, Chief Bola Ige, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Gen. Alani Akinrinade, Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti, Bishop Bolanle Gbonigi, Dr Frederick Fasehun, and others were at the forefront of that call.

After the death of Chief MKO Abiola, whose election victory in 1993 was senselessly annulled by Gen. Ibrahim Babangida and sustained by Gen. Sani Abacha, the call for a national conference and restructuring of the country assumed a high proportion. It continued with the return of democracy in 1999 through the administrations of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua and Dr Goodluck Jonathan.

With the passing away or retirement of most of the South-West elders that sustained the call for the convocation of a national conference, the next generation took over the baton and ensured that the talk about national conference and true federalism was on the front burner in national discourse. The voices mostly heard from 1999 were those of Chief Bola Tinubu, Rauf Aregbesola, Babatunde Fashola, Dr Kayode Fayemi, Alhaji Lai Mohammed (who though is geographically from the North-Central but ethnically Yoruba), and Mr Femi Falana. They complained about the overbearing nature of the central government. They espoused the virtues and advantages of fiscal federalism that would ensure that each state or zone has powers that will enable it to grow at its own pace without having to depend on the government at the centre or wait for other states. They referred to the era before and during the First Republic when the regions flourished and Chief Obafemi Awolowo (as the Premier of Western Region) achieved milestones that made him the darling of his people. In the East and the North respectively, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe/Dr Michael Okpara and Sir Ahmadu Bello also achieved milestones that etched their names in gold. That was the golden era of Nigeria.

They complained that state governors were only chief security officers of their states in word but not in deed, as the state commissioner of police was answerable to the inspector-general of police and not the state governor. They, therefore, called for the creation of state police to enable them to have control over the security of their states. They asked for a special status for Lagos as the former federal capital, so that the state could be well taken care of.

I agreed with most of their points. These men became men after my own heart because I saw them as men who shared my view about the need to restructure Nigeria so as to make it great. No doubt, there were other voices from other parts of the country who wanted a national conference and the restructuring of the nation, especially in the South-East and South-South, but the call was loudest in the South-West. It was only in the North (especially the North-West and North-East) that the voices were few and far between.

With the victory of the All Progressives Congress at the polls this year, there was renewed hope that the need to restructure Nigeria would be a top priority, given that many of those who have championed the call for a national conference and true federalism are now in and part of the government. Surprisingly, the champions of this call have seemingly gone quiet since the APC victory. No mention is made of a national conference or true federalism anymore. Many people like me have been wondering what happened. Have they changed their view on that? Is national conference or true federalism no longer the panacea for Nigeria’s problems? I have been demoralised and confused by their silence on this critical issue.

Last week, The PUNCH had a powerful editorial on the issue with the headline: Engaging the renewed agitation for Biafra. In the editorial, the newspaper declared inter alia:

“We cannot continue to live in self-denial. Nigeria is paying a heavy price for running a ‘natural’ federation like a unitary state. Our federation effectively denies the component nationalities that ability to compete with each other and actualise their full potential. The recent agitation … reminds us that Nigeria must be remade into a proper federation. Fiscal federalism, state police and state control of natural resources that were evident in the First Republic will facilitate rapid development, better inter-group relations and national cohesion. Crucially, these will remove violent agitation for secession from the streets and unsavoury operators onto the political mainstream. Nigeria’s leaders should realise however that unless the country is restructured, periodic agitation for separation or autonomy will continue to recur – and not all will be peaceful.”

Last week too, the Chairman of the defunct Presidential Advisory Committee on the National Conference, Senator Femi Okurounmu, noted that the pro-Biafran agitations probably started due to the failure of the President Buhari administration to implement the resolutions of the 2014 National Conference. He said that the conference endorsed fiscal autonomy and the devolution of powers from the centre to the federating states.

He stated thus: “The National Conference had foreseen this agitation and that was why we agreed that there would be certain autonomy of the federating units. The problems of Nigeria lie on the issues of devolution of power and that of resource allocation.”

The best legacy the Buhari Presidency can bequeath to Nigeria is to set the nation on the path of greatness and growth by ensuring that Nigeria is restructured to become a true federation. He can start by dusting up the report of last year’s conference and discussing with the National Assembly how to adopt most of the decisions taken at that conference. If he does not want to implement the report because it was done under the administration of Jonathan, then let him source for money and start another conference as early as next year.

Nigeria is being pulled from different parts by forces of frustration and anger. There is no sign that this will stop soon. From all indications, it may even get worse. As an individual, Buhari may not like true federalism. He has never said anything to suggest that he supports the idea of fiscal federalism. That is not very important. But as the President who wants to make his country grow and reduce the tension and bad blood in the nation, it will be great for him to bury his personal view and think of the interest of the nation in the long term.

Since many of those who championed the restructuring of the country are now in the government of Buhari, Nigerians are looking up to them to pull the strings that will kick off this process. If not, it will be laughable in the years to come, when they are no longer in government, for the same people to resuscitate the call for a national conference that will usher in true federalism. Many people will ask them: When you were in government and had the opportunity to effect that change, why did you not do it?

http://punchng.com/what-happened-to-south-wests-stand-on-fiscal-federalism/

lexsals4real:
r u drunk?.. recast ur statement fool...

Your statement simply says one thing......you are an offspring of an idiotic fool.

There is a thin line between pursuit of justice and perceived political witch-hunt and Buhari should thread carefully by getting justice disseminated speedily through arraignment and prosecution in the court of law of persons charged with corruption as anything short of that will spell otherwise.

The story does not add up.

Was the girl forcefully kidnapped, lured or came to the man's house by herself?

Why did'nt the woman report her daughter missing to police only to do so when the man refused to hand her over?

What gave the man the impetus to say no to the woman when she came for the girl?

And why on earth will a girl stay put in man's house and be used every night against her will without shouting for help or trying to escape?

N.B - Am not in anyway supporting rape or kidnap.

oyxah:
Don't say what you don't know. Okene and Lokoja under total lockdown since when please? Armed youths shooting everywhere, when and how biko? At least i am presently in Kogi state and i cant completely relate to this news. Stop spreading false information just because you want to contribute.

Ajaokuta is neither Lokoja nor Okene,but still in Kogi state.
I'm telling you to believe.

k2kay:
as far as i am concerned, i can state authoritatively that okene and lokoja is not under lockdown

If you need to reconfirm.
https://www.nairaland.com/2773572/lokoja-okene-road-no-go-route

MICHEALADEX:
We could see the obijackson hospital with medical aids beautiful and well patterned ...but the rest are just empty structures. That Will not still make anambra the capital of biafruad

Carry your smelling mouth and gerrarahia mehnn, go look for boko thread to comment on !!

OdenigboAroli:
Anambra developing all sectors simultaneously.

Omanbala erika.
Omanbala adi njo.

Eziokwu ka ikwulu nwanne mmadu,
Omanbala adiba go mma na aga niru.

omenka:
Dude, has your account been hacked



Ps: The APC government in Benue state is a shame to behold!

Just contributing my quota to national development.

Tired of all these crooked Nigerian politicians shifting political platforms to continue their looting.

omenka:
This is nice coming from you. Without peace there can NEVER be real progress.

I have always and will always detest violence in any shape, every injustice should be addressed through compromise and dialogue, violence and threats of violence is not an option.

My only wahala now is this forex restriction, badly hampering our business.

richidinho:
welldone

walahi you no get work.....i dey find salesman if u dey interested.