₦airaland Forum

jnrbayano:
My own is, has he been tried for those crimes he committed?

If he did repent let him turn himself over to face charges he violated so that his repentance would be total.

Aigbofa:
Ogun is fast catching up with Lagos and may eventually surpass Lagos because Ogun state has more Land.

Felaak47:
1. Reduce Fuel price to N45.00 per litre 2 N5000 per month for every unemployed youths. 3. Create 3,000,000 jobs per annum 4. Provide free meal for all elementary/primary/almajiri schools 5. 1 year allowance for Youth Corpers post NYSC 6. Free and qualitative education up to SSS3 7. 2 million houses yearly for next 4 years 8. Generate 48,000 megawatts of electricity within 4 years. 9. Zero tolerance for corruption, wipe out corruption by the force of his personal example. 10. Ban medical tourism by our politicians from May 29, 2015. 11. Annihilate Boko Haram within two months. 12. Equate N1.00 to $1.00 13. Stabilise oil price

DiademSh07:
See this dull head, Lagos that was a metropolis city before the british colonization was built by whose money?
The same Lagos that has its Oba visiting Lodon in the 60's was built by whose money?
Ibos rewriting Nigeria history since infants! What a shame!

superstar1:
Oil companies siting their offices in a particular place is not the decision of the government, but of the company. They can even site it in Accra and be controlling their Nigeria business from there. Ecobank's HQ is in Togo, Stan Chart HQ is in Uk, Stanbic is in SA, Citibank is in NY. Which government can force them to relocate to Nigeria?

They are a private entity. When OBJ tried to forced banks to relocate their HQ to Abuja, it never worked.

It is left to the coalition of states in a regional presentation for them to appeal to the companies, making them to see the merits.

Investors will be in a place where they are guaranteed of safety of lives and their properties, non-militancy and no piracy activities. All these will have to form a key part of the presentation and selling points to the oil majors by the SS Regional Community.

How many times have you heard the Indigenes of Lagos State marching to Chevron or Mobil, demanding employment or making stupid demands on such companies.

luvinhubby:
Considering the horrors of being experienced in bunkering, why locate an oil & gas project in an area that does not produce oil or gas?
Locating it in Lagos initially was just political, relocating it to Bayelsa is more logical & sensible.

RADDY1:
where are the bad belle pple...so all nigerians can claim the glory of chuka umunna (who happens to be an igbo by tribe) but if it is the other way round,pple will start calling igbo's different names

Sunnybobo3:
Bad belle

francizy:
I remembered vividly that I pointed this out sometimes back, that is before the presidential election but I received insults and curses from you people. Am very much sure you voted for Buhari in the election. Nevertheless, lemme tell you that I've had experiences, when I say experiences, I mean first hand experiences from the northerners and I can say it openly that most people that screamed change from Lagos have not been to or thought about going to the north.

I spent five (5) years schooling there. I know what I saw, even at the level of ordinary departmental elections were turned around and all posts occupied by them, even with large number of Christians in my school then. The lecturers had an election on who to be the next VC, and Northern Christian from that state won the election but due to the protest within the school and the almajiri protest outside the school, this man was denied that post and it was handed over to a "born to rule". To them, this election wasn't about change, it was about them, North and their religion. They don't care if Nigeria burns to ashes, unless of course they are at the top.

Mind you also that I experienced the 2011 post election violence, another violence after some bomb blasts occurred in churches on a Sunday and I was almost killed by one bomb blast on my way to school. So I've been there and I've seen it all.

The drill here is, since you guys aligned with them, you have to just make up your mind to take whatever comes your way. If they deny you people all posts, then take it with good faith, but if they give you any, also take it with good faith. The end will justify the means.

Also, don't expect too much from them, else you may find yourself sitting on a hot stove.

Peace man.

anyaekekehinde:
same here babe, my mum is yoruba, and my dad igbo

i still don't understand why the statement of an hausa/fulani man against the yorubas turned into igbo vs Yoruba

if hausa man abuse yoruba- yoruba will fight and blame igbo

if ijaw man abuse yoruba - yoruba will fight igbo

if igbo man abuse yoruba - yoruba will still fight igbo

if igbos dont support hausa/fulani - we blame igbos
if igbos support hausa/ fulani - we still blame igbos

haba..kilode

Eshinwaju:
sweetie....its just petty jealousy......today as we speak.....there must be at least a hundred 12yr old boys getting on ekene dili chukwu....to come to SW or Edo sef....coming to sell gala on Ogbomosho, benin or lagos streets.... ...some will be sitting here typing Biafra... ..mad pipul...

Rotimi47:
I am tired of this south East crap! This crap comes up whenever the Igbo's feel they they lost out politically while the Yoruba's who by population & who have a larger land mass than the Igbo's have always been oppositions even since 1960 & they kept developing their man power & region; they never complained about being marginalized, so I just don't understand all these cries of secession! If the united Nations, AU or even Somalia & Afghanistan invites them over, I don't care because many are called but few are chosen.sentiments apart; Igbo's have always be the major causes of problem in every administration that rules in Nigeria as they tend to bastardize almost all the position the hold.

sirwilli:
the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.
•The Yoruba elite and area-boy politics;
•Igbo marginalisation and the responsible limits of retribution; and
•The Yoruba Factor and "Area-boy" Politics.
My views on the Yoruba political leadership have been thoroughly articulated in some of my writings, prime among which was " Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. There was also an earlier publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998).

In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.

The Yoruba elite were the first, in 1962, to attempt a violent overthrow of an elected government in this country. In 1966, it was the violence in the West which provided an avenue for the putsch of 15th January. After Chief Awolowo lost to Shagari in 1983 elections, it was the discontent and bad publicity in the South-West which led to the Buhari intervention.

When Buhari jailed UPN governors like Ige and Onabanjo, the South-Western press castigated that good government and provided the right mood for IBB to take over power. As soon as IBB cleared UPN governors of charges against them in a politically motivated retrial, he became the darling of the South-West. When IBB annulled the primaries in which Adamu Ciroma and Shehu Yar Adua emerged as presidential candidates in the NRC and SDP, he was hailed by the South-West. When the same man annulled the June 12, 1993 elections in which Abiola was the front-runner, the South-West now became defenders of democracy.

When it seemed Sani Abacha was sympathetic to Abiola, the South-West supported his take-over. He was in fact invited by a prominent NADECO member to take over in a published letter shortly before the event. Even though Abiola had won the elections in the North, the North was blamed for its annulment. When Abdulsalam Abubakar started his transition, the Yoruba political leadership through NADECO presented a memorandum on a Government of National Unity that showed complete disrespect for the intelligence and liberties of other Nigerians.

Subsequently, they formed a tribal party which failed to meet minimum requirements for registration, but was registered all the same to avoid the violence that was bound to follow non-registration, given the area-boy mentality of South-West politicians. Having rejected an Obasanjo candidacy and challenged the election as a fraud in court, we now find a leading member of the AD in the government, a daughter of an Afenifere leader as Minister of State, and Awolowo´s daughter as Ambassador, all appointed by a man who won the election through fraud.

Meanwhile, nothing has been negotiated for the children of Abiola, the focus of Yoruba political activity. In return for these favours, the AD solidly voted for Evan Enwerem as Senate President. This is a man who participated in the two-million- man March for Abacha´s self-succession. He also is reputed to have hosted a meeting of governors during IBB´s transition, demanding that June 12 elections should never be de-annulled and threatening that the East would go to war if this was done. When Ibrahim Salisu Buhari was accused of swearing to a false affidavit, the Yoruba political elite correctly took up the gauntlet for his resignation.

When an AD governor, Bola Tinubu, swears to a false affidavit that he attended an Ivy League University which he did not attend, we hear excuses.

For so many years, the Yoruba have inundated this country with stories of being marginalised and of a civil service dominated by northerners through quota system. The Federal Character Commission has recently released a report which shows that the South-West accounts for 27.8% of civil servants in the range GL08 to GL14 and a full 29.5% of GL 15 and above. One zone out of six zones controls a full 30% of the civil service leaving the other five zones to share the remaining 70%. We find the same story in the economy, in academia, in parastatals.

Yet in spite of being so dominant, the Yoruba complained and complained of marginalization. Of recent, in recognition of the trauma which hit the South-West after June 12, the rest of the country forced everyone out of the race to ensure that a South-Westerner emerged, often against the best advice of political activists.

Instead of leading a path of reconciliation and strong appreciation, the Yoruba have embarked on short-sighted triumphalism, threatening other "nationalities" that they ( who after all lost the election) will protect Obasanjo ( who was forced on them). No less a person than Bola Ige has made such utterances.

To further show that they were in charge, they led a cult into the Hausa area of Sagamu, murdered a Hausa woman and nothing happened. In the violence that followed, they killed several Hausa residents, with Yoruba leaders like Segun Osoba, reminding Nigerians of the need to respect the culture of their host communities. This would have continued were it not for the people of Kano who showed that they could also create their own Oro who would only be appeased through the shedding of innocent Yoruba blood.
I say all this, to support Balarabe Musa´s statement, that the greatest problem to nation-building in Nigeria are the Yoruba Bourgeoisie. I say this also to underscore my point that until they change this attitude, no conference can solve the problems of Nigeria. We cannot move forward if the leadership of one of the largest ethnic groups continues to operate, not like statesmen, but like common area boys.
iii.The Igbo Factor and the Reasonable Limits of Retribution.

The Igbo people of Nigeria have made a mark in the history of this nation. They led the first successful military coup which eliminated the Military and Political leaders of other regions while letting off Igbo leaders. Nwafor Orizu, then Senate President, in consultation with President Azikiwe, subverted the constitution and handed over power to Aguiyi-Ironsi. Subsequent developments, including attempts at humiliating other peoples, led to the counter-coup and later the civil war. The Igbos themselves must acknowledge that they have a large part of the blame for shattering the unity of this country.
Having said that, this nation must realise that Igbos have more than paid for their foolishness. They have been defeated in war, rendered paupers by monetary policy fiat, their properties declared abandoned and confiscated, kept out of strategic public sector appointments and deprived of public services. The rest of the country forced them to remain in Nigeria and has continued to deny them equity.
The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba Bourgeoisie have conspired to keep the Igbo out of the scheme of things. In the recent transition when the Igbo solidly supported the PDP in the hope of an Ekwueme presidency, the North and South-West treated this as a Biafra agenda. Every rule set for the primaries, every gentleman´s agreement was set aside to ensure that Obasanjo, not Ekwueme emerged as the candidate. Things went as far as getting the Federal Government to hurriedly gazette a pardon. Now, with this government, the marginalistion of the Igbo is more complete than ever before. The Igbos have taken all these quietly because, they reason, they brought it upon themselves. But the nation is sitting on a time-bomb.
After the First World War, the victors treated Germany with the same contempt Nigeria is treating Igbos. Two decades later, there was a Second World War, far costlier than the first. Germany was again defeated, but this time, they won a more honourable peace. Our present political leaders have no sense of History. There is a new Igbo man, who was not born in 1966 and neither knows nor cares about Nzeogwu and Ojukwu. There are Igbo men on the street who were never Biafrans. They were born Nigerians, are Nigerians, but suffer because of actions of earlier generations. They will soon decide that it is better to fight their own war, and may be find an honourable peace, than to remain in this contemptible state in perpetuity.

The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba Bourgeoisie have exacted their pound of flesh from the Igbos. For one Sardauna, one Tafawa Balewa, one Akintola and one Okotie-Eboh, hundreds of thousands have died and suffered.

If this issue is not addressed immediately, no conference will solve Nigeria´s problems. By Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.

paulsir:
At least he did not run away like your grand patron and pseudo messiah that dressed like a woman through to abidjan.Truth be told,ojukwu set a a trap for the igbos to reduce their population and they think hes an hero.

ddippset:
take your time baba, and deliver your promises. even those who did not vote for you are the first to say 'baba you must keep all your campaign promises', 'baba you must make 1 dollar equal to 1 naira'. when baba made those campaign promises, you still called his bluff and refused to vote for him. so what justification do you have to tell baba that he must keep his promises. afterall you voted for the man from otuoke. goodluck ebele jonathan made 100 campaign promises prior to the 2011 elections but did not fulfil 20% of them, so you all cut Baba Buhari some friggin slack!

OneNaira6:
And those small, less trained kids, still fought and killed more of your "well trained military" than they did them. Till the point the "well trained" military went after civilians to compensate on their lack of number os soliders killed in comparison to them. Hahahaha. Ojukwu left in other to come back and continue fight and not only that, he stood up and fought for three years in comparison to every yoruba leader that cried like a B1tch anytime caught for anytime. Even a well know yoruba general cried like a baby when Abacha discovered his coup plot. Mind ypu, a gun shot didn't even go off nor did Abacha threaten his life. Likewise, similar to how your Obas took money and looked the way when abiola was murdered in cold blood by your masters.

At least ojukwu stood his ground when his people nerd him the most, left, came back and had more recognition than even your awo. Lmao

Btw: awo outsmarted who? You mean suggesting starvation to civilians iis an act of "outsmart". Where I'm from, that suggest is known as the cowards way out. Unable to reduce the fighting spirit of the biafran soliders despite going after their civilians than them, your awo created an easy way out, blocking the airways of both ways to get into Biafra thus removing their importation from other nation therefore inducing "starvation" to weaken their fighting spirit. There's no strategy whatsoever informed in that siggestion. It's a common act of weaklings. Even a retarded monkey cab come up with exact same plan.

mekzyjoe:
. Finish n release ur wack album first den I go show u suckerr.

PassingShot:
While taking my time to dissect your write-up, let me say kudos to you for finally heeding my advice to play opposition with constructive criticism.

Modified*
Some errors in what you claim APC promised:
1. APC/GMB never promised provision of 24/7 electricity. They only promised to increase power generation/distribution year on year.
2. The 3 million jobs (actually 20,000 jobs per state) is over four years.
3. They didn't promise to "end" corruption but to fight corruption and reduce it to a manageable level
4. All their social programs have conditions attached to them. They are secondary issues and shouldn't be the priority of the incoming government. They may only attend to them when monies are available to prosecute them.



The mistake of GEJ was not only sharing the $25 billion dollars, his failure to utilize our earnings from crude sale is even bigger than sharing the ECA. Besides, you cannot blame the governors for insisting on sharing when they always came back to meet the account depleted without their knowledge and without satisfactory explanation for what the money was used for.

All your suggestions are what GMB/APC have already given an indication that it is the way they will operate by:
1. Blocking leakages
2. Leaner government
3. Persuading NASS to reduce allowances of political office holders
4. Providing incentives to recover looted funds after looking at previous probe reports
5. Merging of some ministries while also eliminating minister of state portfolios.
6. etc., etc.
All in all, the incoming government has shown capacity to do things very differently from the outgoing one.

Oduduwaboy:
Hmmm...All the Igbo ethnic jingoists who wrongfully but gleefully attacked Wole Soyinka must tender their apology on this thread ASAP or they remain slowpokes forever!!!!

jayfolarin:
In soyinka's shoes, I would not let this go until thecable or thetable goes under for good. More injury has been inflicted than this pathetic apology can cure.

Senseless people with no form of journalistic integrity. You don't go about toying with people's hard earned reputation coz of paper sales and/or tribal hate.

More pathetic are the unreasonable slowpokes on nairaland that bank on any pitiable print from wee-brains like themselves to lash out at the yorubas and their icons without any form of story verification. *In Mama peace' voice* Your brains are dead and you should all bury your heads in shame. D U M B O S!!

raumdeuter:
Now would all the insults sent in Soyinkas way from the children of anger be retracted ?

Most of them are actually jealous of the Nobel prize which none of their generation can never achieve

olu4life:
And people were in a hurry to insult Soyinka. Nawa for Naija peeps o. This mentality of 'bring him down' is annoying and distasteful. I kept mum over the matter cos I was doubting the story. Patience is important biko. Lets think properly before commenting, likewise confirming from a reliable source before pouring ur hatred

olaniyanc:
That is a silly comment by a bigot nairalander.AWO CAN ONLY BE COMPROMISED WITH GREAT WORLD LEADERS LIKE ABRAHAM LINCOLN OF AMERICA, MAHTMA GANDHI OF INDIA, WINSTON CHURCHHILL OF ENGLAND, NELSON MANDELA, INKRUMAH OF GHANA ETC.
AWO OSELU BABA IKENNE.R.I. P.