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Stupidquestions:There is no soap that can wash Tinubu's dirty garbs and make him packageable for public acceptance. His presidential ambition is dead on arrival. |
Pharaoh4rin:We don't need to be told that the tasty house was not built with his meagre police salaries. |
Arabs999:Everything is not about IPOB and ESN. Grow up. |
elelem:No bro, no. |
Blackfire:You are rising no where until you retract your rotten allegation against southerners up there. |
ipobarethieves:@ipobarethieves: FBI are coming after you too. You had better cover your tracks. |
Yusfunoble:You are encouraging academic plagiarism. Stop it. |
Heavenson9:@Devilson, you have no shame. Planning to scam an helpless person like this man is the ultimate in chicanery. Please change your evil ways. |
Eriokanmi:This is a fake and a self advertising narrative. That your brother or uncle, if he has not travelled abroad, would he have gotten acquainted with those complex technologies that made him a rich man? And for you, the riches you are boasting about were made because you made use of the opportunities you saw in your journeys abroad to enrich yourself. As for your unfortunate professor, there are many other professors like Okonjo Iweala who are on top of their profession just because they ventured abroad. Besides how many professors in Nigeria are rich? |
jesusjnr2020:And you have been seeing since that 2003, and this is 2021, 18 years after you decided not to relocate from Nigeria, and you are already growing grey hairs on your head, and we are yet to read your name on Who's Who in Nigeria, but only on the anonymous Who's Who on the insignificant Nairaland forum. And yet you desist not from being a seer. And has Nigeria gotten better since the day you made that decision, or gotten worse? And if you had only depended upon your myopic vision and prophecy since that 2003, and not on your God, would life have been better for you in this going-down-the-hill country? Well, let me not discourage you, keep on enjoying your sweet dream until the politicians loot away all the country's resources, until the bandits and the unknown gun men walk freely across your own side of the street killing, maiming, kidnapping and extorting the innocent neighbours close to you, until the yahoo gangs, the young prostitutes, the ritual killers, for the love of money continue to destroy the societal morality. Keep on dreaming Bro for your utopian Nigeria that is never going to come to pass until Jesus arrives. |
Great100000:Pls do so. You are going to get married one day, and women palaver na de cause for men's heart attack. |
Goalnaldo:...be like succulent bread and bean cakes for the tough guys. They love it. |
Ladiesdoctor:Biafara. |
Uteghe:No, Kanu will repent and go to heaven. Meanwhile crime and its proceeds go divide us. |
socialmediaman:I wonder ooo!!! I was scammed too by him in 2015, you fit helep me catch am? My vote dey im hands. |
Ladiesdoctor:How much? |
Ahmed Joda on the North A recent lengthy submission from the elder statesman, Ahmed Joda, rested on a telling conclusion: Northern Nigeria is not developing its human capital. It also does not have the time to do so anymore. Therefore, it is now ill-equipped to fit into either the knowledge-driven world of today or the new world of tomorrow. It needs at least 20 years to become significant in any way. But, rather than wake up to this benumbing fact, there is the pursuit of the illusion of dominance. Meanwhile the people of the region lack the skills for tomorrow, as majority of its youth lack everything that could make them part of a 21st century world. The major point in Joda’s intervention is that the triumphalism of cattle rearers whose illusion of invulnerability is fuelled and sustained by a national security framework that is skewed to promote insecurity in specific regions of the country will go burst sooner than later. Confiscation of the headship of institutions of state is not the same thing as creating a “replacement generation” that could be part of a 21st Century world. Since most of the northern states have abandoned, ungoverned and even ungovernable spaces, its currently consumption-driven elite is really in no position to do anything, beyond maintaining a hollow swagger that is backed by nothing but the fact that they are living mostly in Abuja and floating on free state funds. Look more closely and you will be reminded of what was said of the House of Eli in the Bible: “Any ear that hears” the judgment of The Lord on that household will tingle. I take us back to an article which appeared on this page on April 17, 2019, titled “As the North Goes Under.” It spoke of a visit to Zamfara State in 2014, which was “at once frightening, sobering and demoralising.” The then “Secretary to the State Government explained how he abandoned his farm and ranch because of cattle rustling and fear for his personal safety.” He confessed that “it was impossible to deploy law enforcement agents, even for himself, in any meaningful way” because they were mostly outnumbered, ill equipped and answerable to Abuja. Have matters improved in Zamfara State today, or gotten worse, in almost every state of the federation? Just as the then Zamfara State governor complained that “the misfortunes” of his people centred around “derivation, as a lot of gold was mined in the state and carted away while his people were ravaged by poverty,” many other states are not faring any better. Look at Bauchi State, with its new MoU on service delivery with development partners. Is that what the state needs at the moment; with its pathetic human development index profile? Is it any different in Jigawa, Kebbi, Sokoto, Kano, Katsina, Edo, Rivers and the others? Even Northern states with over 30% of their geographical space occupied by marauders have been drafting and implementing budgets and development projects covering these areas, where no one lives. Elite myopia, leadership illiteracy and abysmal ignorance of both 21st Century leadership and cultural anthropology of the Nigerian state are working together here. Most of Nigeria’s poor are northerners, even as most high profile political and economically rewarding positions are held by Northerners. While the South laments the asphyxiation of the Nigerian security infrastructure by its exclusive Northern domination, the very north is being systematically wiped out. Unlike what happened during the mass massacre of Igbos in the 60s, no religion, ethnic, or political affiliation exonerates anyone today. For once, the North is actually giving the greatest evidence ever in its history of both political illiteracy and failure to follow the rules of self-preservation. The former leather works sites of many Northern states, clothes factories and groundnut pyramids of Kano and Kaduna, are now like graveyards. Question: Are leaders of the North, and our leaders of various regions today generally, doing any form of costs/benefits analysis in their expenditures and use of public funds? I think not. No matter how generous you would like to be in evaluating the situation of the North today, you must come away with the painful conclusion that all might not be well with the people for a long time to come. The trouble is that the collateral damage moving from the North to other regions is now like a sickness unto death, thanks to Bola Ahmed Tinubu. To think that many political leaders who were celebrating their political dominance a few years ago shall henceforth live in full knowledge of what the Mighty Maytones, the reggae singers of the 70s, meant by “weeping and wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth.” There is hardly any recent event (and I am talking about the last 15 years) in the home, or village, of most Northern politicians where the guests are not usually overwhelmed by at least 100 shabby looking youths, who are either prowling the vicinity, directly affronting guests, or raiding laid out tables. They are looking for nothing other than scraps of edibles and, not even a full meal. And the big men themselves are usually not embarrassed by the spectacle. And, by the way, Governor Ikpeazu of Abia State took his place in the pantheon of depraved leadership when he personally handed out wraps of Eba and a helping of poor quality soup as COVID-19 palliative to his people. In M.I. Okpara’s State; which was also once governed by Dee Sam Mbakwe? Ejikwa m Ogu o! The dreadful disconnect between the 21st century and the Nigerian political religious, traditional and even academic elite is palpable. Has lasting school enrollment or academic performance improved in the North, in the last ten years, even as all the governors are announcing massive “investments” in education? Has the region shown any real increase in the number of people registering for SSCE, NECO and similar competitive examinations? If no, then an inevitable implosion will yet come. The current leadership culture of impunity portends ill. As “their people” come from Chad and Niger, their own youths are begging in the streets; or in the forests. Everywhere is turning into a no-man’s-land, where even revered traditional rulers and religious leaders are no longer safe. A backlash will come when the Sudanese, Chadians and North Africans will suddenly not be so welcome; especially after the Northerners discover that they are displaced in their very homes. When foreigners are the ones with Nigerian ID cards in the North, when foreigners are voters in the North, when the total number of registered candidates for all competitive examinations from the 19 states of the north continues to stand much lower than that of one particular state in the South, when even the cattle business is now in the hands of roaming bands who have no conception of a brotherhood, the modern state, you will realize what the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, meant by his two books, “Fear and Trembling” and “The Sickness Unto Death.” By then it would already be too late. As I said then, over a year ago, “…relentless, daily killings are going on in all the northern states, while everyone thinks that power resides in the north. … The northern political elite would seem to have been diligently digging its own grave for quite some time now, but without knowing it. They have allowed a new breed of wild youths, not sufficiently socialised even in line with the ‘Ranka dede’ culture to … to become dominant. Drugs, poverty, motiveless criminality and rapacious daredevilry have chased all the northern big men to Abuja. But for how long will they be in exile? Is Abuja itself still safe? Are some high profile estates and exclusive neighbourhoods in Abuja not being quietly attacked these days?” As property rates crash in the North, as investors flee, as local economies collapse, as re-desertification takes over many places, as farmlands and animal husbandry are abandoned, as the proceeds of crime become the new means for the unlettered, the threat to the children of the elite will multiply. The peace of mind of those who had the chance to make a difference but failed to do so will evaporate. The free-band society of cattle herders will collapse before their very eyes, as much of the North is taken over by “degenerate marauders who know nothing about modern statehood, law and order etc.” Is anyone thinking of what to expect in the “very near future”? But the pretense persists, that “The North” is on course. The CAMA 2020, the Water Resources Bill, the suffocation of institutions of stage by lopsided appointments will deliver nothing lasting. To still conclude on the note of the said article of last year: “A region that has the highest allocation from oil revenue, the highest earnings from tax mostly paid by other regions, the highest earning from bunkering and the highest earnings from the illegal mining of gold and other natural resources, is ravaged by poverty, underdevelopment and a burgeoning population of unemployable youths. Is this right? Is this normal? Is anyone paying attention – as the North goes under? |
Hardfacts234:You are getting it wrong. Bearing Yoruba and Benin names in Iboland means you were once their slaves but emancipated later, and not the other way round. |
Pure publicity stunt. |
Igbos are Yorubas' wives anyday anytime. They can't do without us, they are just too shy to say it out ![]() |
GuyWise101:What are biafrans doing, except killing each others and making noise. The Yorubas are executing their own separatist agenda systematically, and you will be surprised how far they will go in a short time. And if it requires war, so be it. |
SEGLIZ:Super Falcon ain't representing me, and millions others like me. They are representing themselves and their personal careers. |
festacman:You succinctly captured the unpreparedness and lackadaisical attitudes of the two secessionist leaders to their own personal security. They were operating as if they had no enemies planning for their downfall. It is painful to see how easily they fall into traps the enemies laid for them. That's a big lesson to many of us having the same national separationist agenda to tread carefully. Don't let us deceive ourselves, we are already at war with the fulani oligarchy oppressors and their state sponsored minions of all tribes. We should therefore employed all war strategies (including propaganda) to achieve our aims. #freekanu/Igboho #freebiafra/oodua |
NwaOhafia:Okay sir, my Preacher and Theologian. |
NwaOhafia:Where did you get your own Bible analogy? Sudan, which under Egypt in Africa, refusing the Israelites from passing through their land to the Palestine (or Canaanland), which is in the Middle East, above Egypt? These are two different geographical directions. Oga, go and dust your Bible and start reading from Genesis to Deuteronomy again. |
Authoreety:So if it finally disappear from the bank, how will the Cash Officer explain that to his boss? |
post=103888260:Very soon when your paymaster shall go, we will see what other career you will take up, besides being the BMC's vocalist on Nairaland and Facebook. Or maybe you will only disappear into the wasteland where you came from. |
oluztx:We hear you, we are the most backward race in the world. Tell that to Seun Osewa and Akinwunmi Adesina. They will understand that better, and maybe do something about it. |
Nwaide01:Oga, let me take you down a peg or two to say that there is no special blessing to tap from the Igbos; except one want to tap the negative blessings of: 1. Their inordinate love of money, not minding the source of the money. 2. Their unwarranted chest beating over any small achievement. 3. Their irritating habit of looking down on, and insulting other tribes out of hatred and arrogance. 4. Their customer cheating strategy in business and trade, claiming that "all na business", thereby mortifying their conscience. Etcetera. |
Sirmuel1:Be filthy rich and go to hell, Or, Be moderately comfortable in Christ and go to Heaven. Rethink your choice. |
ohosi4real:Na lie. You want money to flex and to trend. You get the money, people go dey far from your mind. |
Jonathan39:Pastor Adeboye is from Osun State. |
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*Sneeze* This cold sef


