₦airaland Forum

omenka:
Come drink make sense palmy my dear Toma.

Fayose matter be like pikin nor kill me,pikin nor kill me,later e go turn pikin nor kill yourself... he complains too much! Very unbecoming of a man.

He needs to take a chill pil!!

feddy27:
Mo, e don Tey o! Hw ur side?

My sis, we dey ooo, how dey go dey go?...


Blaize777

Nothing is too difficult for the Lord, take it to the King, All will be well...

The message people!!

The messanger? Of no consequence!!

989900:

1. Who and what are the NDA made of ?

2. How would you define ownership of oil blocks and production?

3. How is the blowing up of oil installations, and killing of security operatives plus indirectly exposing the oil communities to enviromental hazards, economical and security hazards the most sensible way of achieving their goal (basically the same thing BH did)?

1.NDA is more the voice of Jacob and hand of Esau... no one(discerning minds) has any illusion about what game is actually being played here.

2. By painting lots of false pictures to court the sympathy of bias minds.

3.The hitting the govt and economy where it hurts most is what I don't get, no one is immune... it is collective problems, the darkness and economic vagaries.... but the pollution won't go beyond that locality... what a shame!

Someone here is trying to rationalise that NDA is "better" because they don't kill people, the military are inaminate objects? So people are just civilians, Law enforcement operatives are collateral damage?

A flea is killing itself thinking it is killing the dog.

This here is my own takeaway from the brilliant article... Nothing any of the Saoteurs have done that isn't more of pains and agony to their people..

A rainmaker (+his family) at a party invokes rain cos he wasn't given stipend, that he invited it won't make him safe, he won't be exempt, it will drench everybody equally.....

Everybody will be partakers...

A manufacturing company did the unusual when it sent emails to its staff to tell them that the enemy of the company had been captured. Those who were interested in its identity should proceed to the conference room. Those who went found a life sized coffin. Inside it was a big mirror. The message was not lost on the staff. They were, as they looked at themselves in the mirror, individually, and collectively, the enemies of the company.

We have all lived with the scourge of Boko Haram for the past eight years or more. But we know, if we are going to be honest, that we could have nipped things in the bud. Instead, we chose first to play the religious card, then the ethnic card. The Northern leaders found it politically convenient to treat it as a localised issue, a kind of ‘tiwa ni tiwa’ problem. When we could have treated them as bandits we did not. When they became emboldened and started bombing churches, some Northern leaders, including some of those in government today, romanticised them and wanted a kind of amnesty for them like the Niger-Delta militants—only they couldn’t manufacture a cause for these rebels. Even when Shekau took to the air and started insulting the sovereignty of Nigeria, some of our Northern brothers who hoped to gain some kind of political leverage, still defended them. And because we had a President who happened to come from the South, who happened to be a Christian, who happened to want a second term badly and who happened to be weak, he allowed some Northern elites to play the usual politics of religion and ethnicity and let things fester.

When they could have been listed as terrorists by the rest of the world, some of our ‘Northern leaders’ fought back and insisted they were not terrorists. The rank and file also shielded them thinking they were the better of two evils.

Exasperated, Jonathan’s Southern advisers allowed the North have its way and ‘kill themselves’ if that was what they wanted. By the time Chibok came, we had lost it as a people united towards a common cause. We are all losers in the Boko Haram saga. We lost our pride; we lost our humanity; we lost our communality; we even lost our spirituality. We treated the North-East as some remote parcel of land in the desert instead of as a part of ourselves, of our being as a nation. This is in spite of our colossal loss in men and materials. But the biggest loser is the North itself, including the people of the North-East. Families have been destroyed; homes have been annihilated. Children have lost their innocence while adults have lost their livelihood. Economically and educationally, the whole region would have to play catch-up to the rest of Nigeria for quite a while. All of these could have been avoided if we had acted decisively to deal with criminality without looking at tribe and religion.

We can blame the Jonathan administration because the buck has to stop somewhere and because he was not assertive enough. But the real enemies are those who felt they could leverage on the situation and those who see nepotism in everything. They are the enemies within.

We are doing the same with the Fulani herdsmen. Instead of treating them as bandits and murderers, we are ethnicising the issue. These people might be Fulani or they might not be. They might be cattle rearers and again, they might not be. But nobody, no matter the tribe, no matter the trade, no matter the religion, has the right to take a life. Nobody has the right to loot and maim. Those governors who gather together to defend Fulani herdsmen should cover their heads in shame. It is not about Fulani herdsmen. It is about banditry and murder.

The law enforcement agencies who look the other way or seek political solutions for criminal acts have not learnt any lesson. They should be held responsible if things escalate and individuals and groups are forced to defend themselves. They are—governors and law enforcers—the enemies within. Of course the buck stops at the center. At the end of the day, if this continues for too long, we shall all end up as losers but the greatest losers are the Fulani herdsmen who will be treated with distrust by various host communities and denied access and integration.

We all woke up on Monday to see the re-appearance of fuel queues which had largely disappeared by the weekend. The reason we are told, was because some strategic pipes had been blown up by the weekend. A group, called the Niger-Delta Avengers has claimed responsibility. Predictably, some South-South leaders are going to defend its actions. Many of the leaders will be deaf, blind and dumb, hearing and seeing no evil. The people who live with its members will try and shield these crooks from the law. Let us not again romanticise things. These people are economic terrorists and the earlier we dealt with them like the criminals they are, the better for the country. They are not after the emancipation of the Niger-Delta. They are selfish crooks who are after the emancipation of their pockets and don’t care who or what goes down with it.

The last six years have unmasked many a war lord who became as rich and as corrupt as the rest of the Nigerian elite. How many of them looked back to develop their communities? How many found vocations and means of sustenance for the youths who were in the trenches with them?


By blowing the oil and gas pipes, they might increase the hardship of the ordinary Nigerians. But their own people will suffer just as well. They might plunge the nation into another round of darkness but their people will not be exempt.
Yes, the country will suffer, but their people will suffer more. And for what? The blown pipes will increase the negative environmental impact on their communities while the violence and lawlessness will decrease the possibility of future investments and developments. The whole world is moving away from the curse of oil. The ‘Avengers’ are still stuck in it. By the time the sludge is cleared, if it ever gets cleared, the people will realise how much damage the militants and activists have done to their community and how far backwards they have dragged them.

The Yorubas have a proverb for it. A flea is killing itself thinking it is killing the dog. They are enemies within. My plea is that anybody who takes a life; anybody who destroys national assets; anybody who loots the treasury should be severely dealt with. Nobody kills or loots for their religion or tribe. They must be recognised for what they are, criminals and those who shield them, enemies of state.  

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: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/the-enemies-within/

goldenceo1:
Ogbe Ijoh/ Aladja crisis has been in existence b4 now. Stop adding fuel to were there is no fire. Stop breeding bad blood b/w us its communal clash n not ethic clash.

But there is a needless clash right? And reporting an event is not the same as causing or aggravating it... it's just what it is...

*On Topic*

Why exactly are Ijaws always in the news for violent clashes? Why the disconnect between them & their neighbours? *genuine enquiry*

omenka:
That was today at 2pm.

Thank God he listened to my plea.

Oya, let the class with very low IQ, the "throwback crew" have something good to talk about.

Maka why??

Where are all those promised partial deregulation from 65-97 naira SURE-P Scam "PALLIATIVES" again? Uhhhhhnnn!


http://sure-p.gov.ng/policy/

https://www.aea.org.ng/aea-media/news-update/17-subsidy-reinvestment-and-empowerment-program-sure-p

http://sure-p.gov.ng/history/

http://www.surepmch.org/sp_about.php



One thing I'm sure about is that we won't have a repeat of the scam, God willing!!

Anyone that wants the country to progress won't oppose this move.....
Government should increase minimum wage,allocations to state and capital spending to cushion the effect!! Dazall..

agabaI23:
When I gave up was the day my own Paddy paddy mody kinda called me a name I do not answer.

Don't take it personal though. It is a free world.

Don't forget that for some people it is wrong to talking while eating. It is a simple table etiquette...

You are doing it again!!!! Who is eating where Who is the glutton or waki and die? So one can't love someone without any pecuniary expectation?

We had this convo 5yrs ago and I believe we buried it.... why did you resurrect it? Do you think it's fair or just to disparage people for having things go their way when you've had your time?...

3 things make people's blood run hot, and extra defensive... their kids, Religion and political affiliation... it pays to know the line not to cross!!! I ignored you because apart from not being someone that enjoys acrimony, you and I (online or not, don't matter) have had great times and supported each other irrespective of political leanings...

You know quite well I commit to causes so you dissing my choice was a No No No.

Take a moment to think, would you like it if after 2011, I made it a point of duty to continually heckle you over every of Jona's actions (good or bad)? I'm 100% sure you can't find one instance that happened!!! I move on, tomorrow's another day, why have you jonathanians chose to mope till thy kingdom come? Why!!!

Mutual Respect!!! Shouldn't be hard!!

kaboninc:
Is it not the same reserve from which payment for subsidies were paid?

You just have to stop reasoning with these individuals.

Bros you are wrong, subsidy payment is part of appropriation..... it is budgetted for....

Tampering with the reserves was nothing but economic sabotage & mismanagement... Touching the ECA too was illegal..

http://m.thenigerianvoice.com/news/98646/jonathan-submits-2013-budget-retains-fuel-subsidy.html

http://www.thescoopng.com/amend-this-president-jonathan-re-sends-2013-budget-and-sure-p-budget-to-nass/

http://allafrica.com/stories/201505010396.html

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/fg-cut-petrol-subsidy-half-2015/

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/subsidy-gets-88-per-cent-of-n465bn-supplementary-budget/

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/111024-national-assembly-approves-jonathans-n161-6bn-supplementary-budget.html

MizMyColi:
Mo Said and I quote
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I've as usual excised the inanities cos it's just plain tiring..... I'm going to leave you 3 takeaways then you can get in your Epistle and have the final word since it's something you crave..... After this I'm not going to say nothing more on this.....

1. The part about 90% of APC can catch fire passed by your hypocritical and bias leanings and Buhari's CPC didn't have any Yoruba colouration even if his Vice then was PS. Bakare....

2. I hardly respond to trolls and foolishness, what purpose will it serve? Does it matter what people who don't care for one think about one's opinion? Nah, only insecure and simple minded people do...

So i was supposed to entertain a troll who came onto a thread and took an excerpt and made a non existent story about it like you just did, Na so una be..... It comes with the territory......

3. You need to get something that is not able to penetrate the wall you've erected between yourself and tolerance & fairness..., "You don't have a choice about how and what OTHER people decide to make of their political choices.. How is that difficult to grasp!!!!!

P.S.... For the avoidance of doubt, I am Pro Yoruba interest in all ways, everyday and will always toe any path that will serve yorubas well, if to you that is bigotry and hate, be my guest.. .... Clear enough?

The same way you don't get the Buhari love is same way some don't understand the Jona love!!

To think 2011,70-75% yoruba voted for this man & at the 2015 Referendum, they had a better option and switched, they must be slaves, hateful, wicked and evil!! Na by force??!! Na wah oo..

These are trying times but petrol station is not a car park, it"s supposed to be fill and go, na our kind of peculiar country that has made us assume abnormal things should be the norm....

One day one day, E go better...

He said, “We are a law-abiding party. I have been served the court order and as a respondent in the case, I’m telling you that we are not going to flout the order of the court.

“I’m also aware that the Independent National Electoral Commission will also not be at the congress.

“As a matter of fact, we are withdrawing our officers who have been sent to conduct the congress. We will stay action on it until the case if determined by the court.”

Thought Fayose is bigger than both the laws of the land and the their Party...

http://tribuneonlineng.com/swest-pdp-crisis-court-stops-zonal-congress-•it-will-hold-as-scheduled—fayose

MizMyColi:
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Some of you do it because your brother is in power. Mo specifically mentioned the Yoruba factor.

After those dead soldiers pic, I've known you are full of Macbeth level machiavellian destructive ways but I don't let it bother me, cos people are who they are, it's life..... However I can't let this level of mischief go without addressing it...



I've excised majority of the sentimental campaign after election crap you've put up, you are full of a lot of stuff and none smells good!!


I made this comment;

No offence meant & I'm not trolling you but as long as you have totally aligned with a party,irrespective of its ideology and quality of people it fronts , you have to take all it presents warts & all...

You can't allow emotional reservation get in the way, it's only if your support is tied to particular values,goals, beliefs, an individual or a particular group as a subset, that is when you can pick and choose.

2011, despite ACN being the yoruba identity, Ribadu was on OYO, I voted CPC cos of Buhari[ ... as it is today, 95% of APC can catch fire,I won't even spit on them let alone try to douse it but I'm somewhat sympathetic to their course cos of Buhari & the Yoruba factor......

If your heart really is with PDP, sheriff is a no factor, however the fact that he has plans of transmuting to presidential candidate is enough to mull over though, very dicey... peace.

How did you arrive at Yoruba factor from this? When it was expressly stated that in 2011 when ACN had a candidate in Ribadu, I voted for CPC, which was Buhari's party then.... why didn't blind ethnic alignment swing me towards Ribadu?

2015, APC got my vote cos of Buhari, how then did the yoruba factor come into play in my decision to pitch my tent with Buhari, madam light and love

There is no detribalized Nigerian but not all of us are crazily and myopically tribalized since that's who you are!!!!

Did Tompolo not claim he supported Jona cos he is his brother?

SE folks adopted Jona saying he is their bros as well, so Yoruba have no right to carve their path the best way that suits them!!! Abi? [/b]


It's called intolerance and selfishness!! Madam, you don't have any say or a right in what people see in people, who made you boss of their emotions??

I have a right to support who I want and No, your opinion doesn't count cos you can support a goat for all I care!! Free will madam, Free will... You need to desist from this divisive stuff you engage in?

That light and love thing you keep yapping about will forgive you, though there is no evidence of it in your acts and conducts,!!! SMH!!



BTW, what happened to the shadow CLOWNS? No yam peels from the main Yams to spread for them?

Buhari isn't very Popular right now but Dino is more of a persona non grata, with his over inflated sense of importance...


Bruce and Shehu Sani will command greater loyalty!!

Which power Ali Shekau get over EFCC??

OP,

You are tiri mush, Thread of the year..

I don laff taya for here......

bejeiodus:
This is not about being anti-Buhari. Any objective observer would see that there is a tinge of persecution in the trial of the Senate President....Those who seek to hang Saraki by the neck have as much baggage as he does. So why the sanctimonious posturing?
There is no similitude between what is happening to Rouseeff and what is happening to Saraki. Besides, each nation has its own political peculiarities. Politics is all about intrest and the earlier you understand that Saraki has built enough bridges to take care of his interest the better you will understand how difficult it is to unseat him.
True, there are many ways to skin a cat, but Saraki is a cat with nine lives!

@ bejeiodus ,

Agreed a cat has nine lives but bear in mind Nine is countable, when he uses up the whole nine lives, he won't have a 10th to survive the unrelenting onslaught..

I won't debate the merit of prosecution /persecution that this case is but one thing we ALL know for a certainty is that his antagonists won't relent, his alliance begins and ends in the NASS...

We can remember the Buhari will never be president narrative despite everything pointing in that direction, some still saw only that which their sentiments has been programmed to see.. dazall for now, patience is all that is needed... chikena.

LadyExcellency:
Actually, Nigeria earned #FantasticallyCorrupt badge because her President, Muhammadu Buhari forged Cambridge WASC Statement of Result and refused validation of the said fraud from the source pleading to authorization to publish the true results.

Ngwakwe, you are off key as usual, BTW you and all this your #GrammaticallyCorrupt phrases won't kill me.... that you spell the words right doesn't confer meaning or sense to them..

Which one is Pleading to authorization to!!

I dey come, i wan go lipia jenelator & queue for petlo....


*modified* where were we...

I personally won't try to justify fuel subsidy removal at this period and it's not because it lacks merit (subsidy is a conduit for corruption and i'd take steady electricity, motorable roads, better healthcare, product availability & improved infrastructures over subsidized petrol but that is me in my personal capacity) but cos the situation of the country is dire but I believe may 29th address, the president would announce a 30-35k minimum wage band cos anything short of this would ensure a lot of mass suicide.....


All we hope is that unlike the 65-97 naira partial subsidy removal scam of SURE-P, we will see something tangible!!! E go better..


Dropshot, welldone...

bejeiodus:
You keep saying this anytime an item of news about his trial comes up yet the axe has not fallen....Saraki only outwit those who underestimated his political acumen.
Learn to live with the ugly fact, Saraki has a four year mandate and nothing will shorten his stay in office.
The AGF only expressed an opinion. His views are his own interpretation of the law. Let him approach a court for proper adjudication.

There is no virtue in impatience, order is more important than speed, I know support for Saraki equals anti Buhari stance in your books and i won't fault you for your bias, we are all emotional beings..... We expect that somethings are to slow when it's what we desire and rejoice when it's not happening cos we hope it doesn't work out for the other party. .... We will revisit this very SOON...

However in your free time, read up about Dilma Rouseff's ordeal, the forces militating against her, timeline(how long it's been ongoing) , present state of affairs & you'd understand the many ways there are to skin a cat.........

odikimi:
I am a strong pdp man but I hate SAS like mad, the guy is nothing to write ohm about. I am at the verge of jumping the ship but not to APC. KOWA on my mind

No offence meant & I'm not trolling you but as long as you have totally aligned with a party,irrespective of its ideology and quality of people it fronts , you have to take all it presents warts & all...

You can't allow emotional reservation get in the way, it's only if your support is tied to particular values,goals, beliefs, an individual or a particular group as a subset, that is when you can pick and choose.

2011, despite ACN being the yoruba identity, Ribadu was on OYO, I voted CPC cos of Buhari ... as it is today, 95% of APC can catch fire,I won't even spit on them let alone try to douse it but I'm somewhat sympathetic to their course cos of Buhari & the Yoruba factor......

If your heart really is with PDP, sheriff is a no factor, however the fact that he has plans of transmuting to presidential candidate is enough to mull over though, very dicey... peace.

Saratiff will be axed, it's just a time..... How wont Nigeria earn the #FantasticallyCorrupt crown, when lawmakers are forging documents to illegally install themselves...

Bubu will see this task to conclusion, no turning back now.

The case has been adjourned till 24th of May, 2016.
With the latest development, any attempt to conduct the zonal congress scheduled for Akure, Ondo State and Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State, by the contending groups within the zone will be an illegality, a contempt of court and nullity.

This is wicked!!!

Why/

Topiipii:
The best thing will be to invade the national assembly and demand a forceful reduction in their wages, those goons are reputedly the highest paid lawmakers in the world and live in a country where the minimum wage is roughly $60; isn't that a shame? I am sure Nigerians will turn out en masse if they should make that call. omenka, modath please quote this on the front page and make my day, I am certain that those clowns would take Nigerians more serious if this can be achieved.

Bros, i nor wan die ooo!!! reduction in NASS insensitive undeserved jumbo pay? .... Why? on top that hard labour? you people are not appreciative of noble, loyal servants, na wah ooo

Who wants assasins after them? even if they want to, hangers-on,political godfathers ,jobbers and party loyalists that depend on their largesse will make sure that never happens!!!!

They've worked for the money in heaven, they are only here to collect their reward..

tydi:
na Buhari cus am!

One day one day, you will get healed from your malady, today aint the day.

OP,

Sometimes one would want to be dignified and waka pass the misguided and polarizing threads/comments you are well versed in but sometimes one has to knock some deeply disturbed ethno religious ravaged heads...

Why are you expecting "supposed slaves" to protest against their master's decision? Must Yoruba people do it for you lots everytime

NADECO/ AFENIFERE against Abacha was mostly a yoruba set up .

When Turai was knocking Jona on the head like a child, same Yoruba SNG led the protest to free him ( that should have been the pointer to how much of an IB he would turn out to be) and led a march to the NASS which enabled him to take his constitutionally approved position....

Now it is the time of another set, Yorubas won't do jack..

Get your people to fight this, put their money where their mouth has always been or they are only good for issuing ultimatums & disturbing public peace ?

P.S.... I expect the usual comeback but will appreciate if you can do me one favour: Don't forget to give an account of the positive impact of the SURE-P scam on the lives of the ordinary citizens.... Tangible stuff, and no, the governors held my hands is not a tenable excuse, SURE-P has nothing to do with ECA...

*waiting* Thanks...

ogmask:
I have asked this same question a thousand times.

They always pretend like we all have amnesia!

I'm not enjoying this but i'd rather have better healthcare, good roads, higher wages than for one rich big belle govt crony to dey use us make cheap income....

Na to dey use smaller more fuel efficient cars and nix unnecessary waka....

Nigerians are mostly ignorant, we extract to sell, we buy at international rate like all other countries!!

Standing5:
the rejection or the increase? Which one? Diff between Buhari n GEJ increase is one isn't percieved as trying to decieve Nigerians into selling out. Where are the SURE-P bus n stuff today?

You "typed" too soon...