₦airaland Forum

italo:
The name Dahomey is an abbreviation of "Isidahomen" who was a Bini General that conquered that land. People still bear Isidahomen today in Edo State. Togo named a university and hotel after the Bini kingdom. Universite du Benin, Lome. Republic of Benin was named after Benin Kingdom after the Late Oba Akenzua granted permission in 1974. Gnassingbe Eyadema said publicly that the people of Togo trace their roots to Bini Kingdom. Even the Ga people of Ghana are from Bini Kingdom. Oduduwa was from Bini. All the Kingdoms in Delta State and Onitsha were under the great Bini Empire.

Benin tradition and history is too detailed to be twisted with your fake historical revision.

Onitsha had some Benin influence,but never came under the Benin empire.Neither did Asaba nor Igbuzo on the western shore of the Niger

adsonstone:
Your source says Lagos was called "Eko" by the binis....it also says the word stems from yoruba source.

"Lagos was originally called Eko, which
stems from either Oko (Yoruba: "cassava farm"
or Eko (war camp)."


If an English Man calls 'Chiedozie' (an igbo boy,) 'Chedzoy,' does that make 'Chedzoy' an English word?

Eko is an Edo word meaning war settlement/camp.Another instance of a Benin settlement with the Eko prefix is Eko Oshodin or Ekosodin(Oshodin's camp) where uniben campus is located

superstar1:
President Fulani
VP Yoruba
Senate President Yoruba
Speaker Kanuri

Senate President already claimed Fulani at some point in the past. Speaker is Sayawa and Christian

goodgate:
Go get acopy and read it,that's if you can afford it. Its just 1000 naira.

Nodcock,I have copies.Which is why I asked that you quote the phantom provisions you're relying on to console yourself.

tempex88:
from all the ones that have happended before today, president goes to the house to read proclamation himself not through the clerk. I heard clerk received letter though

No President goes to the House to read the proclamation himself,not even Obasanjo did that.That would be tantamount to a Joint Session of the National Assembly n you can't have a joint session unless the Assembly has been inaugurated.The most Obasanjo did in 1999 was read the proclamation himself from an Aso rock podium in front of cameras.
All these kids on nairaland sef

goodgate:
His election can still be nullified, the constitution states that a person aspiring to hold the position of SP must not be one that has been indicted or investigated for fraud, the constitution also made it clear that without the presence of the President of the Federal Republic to Declare open the Assembly, it is Null and Void.

You will do well to quote those sections of "Constitution" you refer to cos what you posit is definitely not in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,1999 as amended.Maybe you quote from that scrap of akara paper Iya Basira sold you this morning.

Pangea:
Is there going to be coup again?

There is no coup in the offing,but democracy in action.Let's just wait and see what the outcome will be.
I for one am partial to Dogara as Speaker and a rep from Southsouth as deputy.

dondo83:
its an error you should know he meant 2/3. The constitution said 2/3.

The Constitution says 1/3 for quorum and simple majority for election.On both grounds,Bukola Saraki won it.Accept it,he is the Senate President

jaybee3:
The only possible way that highly unlikely scenario could get played out is if they both get murdered at the eagle square. Obviously that would create instant anarchy and in turn throw the country into a temporary constitution crisis.

I would expect some sort of temporary democratic leadership structure put in place which will then hand over to the contestant that came second during the APC primary election

Things taken into consideration:
We technically have no government in place so succession order can't come into play
The National assembly has been dissolved

The National Assembly has not been dissolved,nodcock.That comes on June 7.
@OP,in the event the President-elect fail to make it to swearing in for any reason,the Vice President-elect is sworn in as president in his place.
In the event both of them don't make it,the Senate president takes over and INEC is constitutionally mandated to conduct another election within seven (7) days to fill the post(s).
See section 136 (1) & (2) CFRN.
We've dealt with this issue before in another thread,btw.

PassingShot:
Gay marriage is completely against our culture and must not be endorsed by anyone.

To take a national position, let there be a referendum.

No reasonable human being advocates a referendum on fundamental human rights already guaranteed by the Constitution,it is your own right too.The right to life,privacy and association.
I don't think you or I will witness any gay marriage performed in Nigeria in our lifetime,haven't even heard them advocate it,but their rights need to be respected and upheld though,same as ours.Live and let live
Btw,culture is dynamic n changes with the times.What you call culture today is not what your great-great-grandfather experienced in his own day,bear that in mind.

sunnyshayne:
Dear white man, kindly argue objectively. Support your stand with reasons.

Actually,you're the one not being objective.John Quincy Adams served many years in the US congress after being president,as did ex-president Johnson in the US senate.Nothing wrong or demeaning about being of service to your people,it's a democracy,not a monarchy

By Ugoji Egbujo
One religious crisis , throats will be slit and
thousands will perish.
Nigeria. The supposedly pious will zealously
and sanctimoniously disembowel pregnant
women and disgorge fetuses. Some innocent
non indigenes of the wrong faith will have to
choose between dying by the knife or drowning
in a well. Hopes and livelihoods will disappear.
Many, fortunate, will run hundreds of
kilometers to the safety of their hometowns .
Neither the victimized living nor the butchered
dead will be accorded even a semblance of
dignity. The dead will be lumped onto lorries ,
open tipper trucks and driven to hurriedly dug
pits , graves, in the dark in the interest of
national unity. And the living will get no
redress, no rehabilitation. The instigators and
the perpetrators , to whom all impunity
belongs , will walk away free.
And the House of Representatives that has
found its voice in the wake of the South
African crises will offer tepid resolutions and
nothing more. And the government will console
not the bereaved but the trouble makers , so
that -”we can move forward”. And they will set
up a committee and the committee will come
up with papers that will be discarded by the
government because the committee was in any
case, a ruse.
You die , you die and life goes on . Or how else
can it be interpreted? You die for nothing! “No
one is greater than Nigeria” they always say. So
sleeping rabid dogs are left to lie, free to bite
and bite again.
Egregious evil is often banal. And the banality
of gross unspeakable acts of inhumanity is the
reason the whole of humanity must always be
on guard . 800,000 skulls in 100 days. Rwanda
. Man’s capacity for monstrous evil must never
be underestimated. Common every day people
when intoxicated by the brew of hate served
them by unscrupulous powerful , self seeking ,
elements can perpetrate mind boggling evil
against fellow humanity. If it were not so
thousands of Germans – drivers, doctors ,
priests, nurses would not have actively
cooperated with Hitler and the Nazi regime to
achieve the holocaust. And many other good
men would not have acquiesced by being
passive.
The Zulu king spewed hate and parts of South
Africa went aflame. South Africans have been
noted to exhibit an exceptionalism , a shared
self perception as non Africans . And many
have tried to find the reasons for such a
‘superiority complex’ or sense of otherness .
Their struggle against apartheid may have
conditioned them and foisted on them a sense
of uniqueness sufficient to justify the
conception of brother Africans as “others”. But
nothing can explain a penchant for naked hate
filled violence by black south Africans against
black Africans of other nationalities. The
current spate of attacks is preceded by other
such events. Everyday street interaction reveals
a population seething with hate for black
immigrants in many parts of south Africa
Many South Africans allude to the fact that
many of the foreign African nationals in their
country engage in nefarious activities and help
to worsen the deteriorating crime situation in
the country. A particular charge is laid against
Nigerian nationals for drug peddling, advance
fee fraud and armed robbery. It is true that
years of apartheid has left many black south
African youths and families impoverished and
educationally backward. These black
communities suffer many social dislocations
and deprivations and all of these have
contributed in raising family and social
tensions. Such communities can ill afford
aggravation of broken situations by
immigrants. But rather than employ mob
justice and barbaric methods , why wouldn’t
such an aggrieved society use the criminal
justice structures and immigration processes to
stem any such foreign criminal proliferation.
The other popular but patently spurious
refrain is that black immigrants have usurped
jobs meant for locals. And this , however
viewed , is a ludicrous charge. If jobs exists
locals always get priority. And this is
acceptable worldwide. And if locals consider
the jobs beneath them or lack the expertise to
fill the roles then immigrants would naturally
take up the roles. Hard working, law abiding
immigrants benefit all nations. Why would the
success of black African immigrants engender
murderous envy in a predominantly black
country where whites dominate at all levels.
Whites live in opulence, legacy of apartheid .
Blacks live in squalor , no thanks to Botha and
his ancestors . Yet down trodden indigenous
black Africans transfer murderous aggression
to fellow sympathetic black Africans. South
Africa has deep seated problems of social
inequality which scapegoatism can’t solve . And
at the risk of being misconstrued as a racist,
why are South Africans targeting only their
black African fellows if their xenophobia is
borne of economic desperation ? Why are
immigrants of other races so welcome where
the fellow black Africans aren’t? White South
Africans must be on their guard, the tiger may
turn on them soon.
Many African nations sacrificed so much in the
fight against apartheid and the inexplicable
lukewarm attitude of South African leaders in
the wake of the attacks has baffled many. A
group of hitherto shackled people who, in
their dark days , lived off the benevolence and
charity of others in the spirit of African
brotherhood. And whose freedom was
purchased by the contributions of sweat and
blood by many African nations. People , who
privileged on the identity of ‘Africanness’. How
can they so treacherously now turn their backs
on Africa and repudiate African brotherhood
and murder and burn Africans on the streets
of Durban in day light?
But Nigerians have so much to learn from
these events. The Zulu king asked foreigners to
pack and go. That was extremely irresponsible
and the gravity of the offence he committed
lies in the enormous influence he wields. The
Oba of Lagos, recently,made a worse
pronouncement. He swore by Allah and
promised death for all Igbos he voted contrary
to his imperial dictations. Many have called for
the head of the Zulu king for instigating this
chain of calamitous events and many of those
screaming from their rooftops in Nigeria were
not heard after the Oba’s venomous
pronouncements .
Before the Oba could be asked “ what were
you thinking?”, many rose to his defence
without any squeamishness. And even well
known human rights activists and social
crusaders went dumb. A few mustered a few
whimpers in the spirit of political correctness
but betrayed themselves when they sought to
control , moderate and limit the grief of the
primary victims.
Those who felt victimized and outraged were
often asked , peremptorily , to let sleep dogs
lie and move on. When Femi Falana managed
to ask the Oba to apologise reminding him of
the crimes he had committed, we were told it
would be sacrilegious for the Oba to apologize.
An Oba who is no longer a sovereign , whose
word is no longer law anywhere, cannot
tender an apology for a grave moral and legal
infraction he committed against millions in
Lagos? Come to reality, this is not 1800.
The Oba defiantly refused to apologise, and the
state failed to take any action against the Oba
and , by so doing, set a dangerous precedent.
People charged with the constitutional
responsibility of maintaining law and order
cowered and abdicated their duties. The South
African Human Rights Commission is
investigating the Zulu king but the Nigerian
Human rights commission known for barking
and not biting only rendered a couple of
perfunctory and ineffectual howls. The Oba and
Lagos state government have conveniently
swept the matter under the carpet. It is my
prayer that the seeds of discord sowed by the
Oba and watered by a manifest disregard for
the feelings of his victims in the failure of a
proper resolution of the matter do not sprout
and bear fruits someday .
And someone wondered why the Oba should be
sanctioned since , as she put it , – no one
died. But the gravity of such a grave moral and
criminal offence is not primarily determined
by its actual immediate physical consequences.
Nothing grieves a victim more than the
remorselessness of a conceited offender. Oba’s
refusal to apologise is an aggravation of the
offence, moral and otherwise, he committed.
And that lack of penitence is in itself immoral.
“ Lagos is not a no man’s land” many yelled in
the wake of the Oba’s saga , yet some of them
would cheer Nigerian youths who rallied to
defend themselves , holding their grounds in
Durban and Jo’Burg and repelling violence with
violence. They aren’t particularly asking their
countrymen who live in Durban to pack and
come back. It is easier to ask why a legal
immigrant in Durban is not entitled to his
peace than to understand that a Nigerian
citizen in Lagos does not owe his continued
flourishing there to anyone’s magnanimity. Let
any returning Nigerians pass through and pay
homage to the Oba. Let them lay some of their
woes at his feet. Perhaps experience will teach
best.
Lagos, I insist, is comparatively, very
accommodating. Be it in Kano , Aba, Markudi
or Jos , amongst those yelling and tearing
themselves up and decreeing death to south
African businesses here are people who make
living intolerable for non indigenes. In many
parts of Nigeria , especially up north, non
indigenes sleep with eyes wide open, live on
the precipice of disaster because locals would
leverage on any breakdown of law and order
and prey on their lives and property.
Yes, amongst some who actively took part in
the killing Gideon Akaluka and amongst others
who endorsed that heinous crime by their
eloquent passivity are later day human rights
activists whose sense of moral outrage is only
touched by distant events like xenophobia in
South Africa. But they will kill and maim fellow
Nigerians in exercise of religious and ethnic
bigotry and retain equanimity
The pictures coming from south Africa are
gory and horrific. Conspicuous free flow of
moral outrage is good and hopefully will be
effective deterrent. But emotional outpourings
are not enough. While we demand firm justice
against perpetrators and protection and
rehabilitation for our citizens and others, we
must soberly reflect on the goings on in that
country and we must internalize the
experience.
Women and children have been decapitated
severally following religious riots in northern
Nigeria. Thousands have died in Plateau state
in many ethnic /religious confrontations
between indigenes and “settlers”. Instigators
and perpetrators have always walked away and
victims have never been rehabilitated. So we
can make demands on South Africa but we
must set same standards for our selves. Punish
offenders, soothe victims, re- orient the
society.
Let justice, peace and unity reign.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/xenophobic-south-africa-and-hypocritical-nigeria/

LasgidyPort:
Loads of crap. The geopolitical term SS emanated from the SS leaders themselves some years back in the 1990s and not from the 60s as fraudulently posited by u.

They themselves wants to be clearly differentiated from the SE. Just the same way the NorthCentral states wants to be differentiated from the core North. I don't see the coming and now the departure of GEJ changing that.

The term "South-south" was coined by Ekwueme at the 1995 Constitutional conference to give name to what has already bn put in play by the Nigerian state,not some nebulous "SS leaders" to differentiate anything.Get your facts right.

youngpol:
See this retardd who didn't even finish secondary skul is calling my lecturer stu.pid, smh. Seen the constitution lately? Read it. And then come say something with your brains not ur immature balls.

Did that section of the akara paper your "lecturer" quoted contain the following:
"136. (1) If a person duly elected as
President dies before taking and
subscribing the Oath of Allegiance
and oath of office, or is for any
reason whatsoever unable to be
sworn in, the person elected with
him as Vice-President shall be
sworn in as President and he shall
nominate a new Vice-President who
shall be appointed by the President
with the approval by a simple
majority of the National Assembly
at a joint sitting."
That's from the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,1999 as amended.

youngpol:
Same question my lecturer asked and the whole class kept very quiet. He answered it though, says Jonathan would continue his rule as if nothing happened since the he's the candidate with 2nd highest votes. I've silently been praying nobody gets any ideas and Buhari isn't nabbed before he's sworn in.

Sai Buhari.

Whichever institution employed that your "lecturer" should relieve him of that duty asap,cos he's ended up dumbing you down the more

Gr8amechi:
guy Google is your friend, don't speak like unlearned, talk facts

Google is the one that now tells you your origin and ancestry?.I'd thought I was challenging a confused adult,didn't realize it's just an ignorant kid.Sorry,I don't deal.

ibedun:
That's why we MUST demand full accountability from the 2 Igbo and the delta woman HOR elect members. All the constituency funds, etc etc. they must account for every penny otherwise we have the abnormally of the Igbo reps taking Lagos money to go and build house in his abaliki village. In fact they all should be recalled if they make any slightest wrong move. If they visit their village during their tenure they must be recalled.

O foolish one,how are you going to recall them when you didn't elect them?.
Let this sink into that mush you call brain,they are not accountable to you only their constituents,of which you are not one.

Gr8amechi:
even my name sound Igbo but the guy should not join us to the across the Niger Igbo, if you read history you would know that ika has nothing to do with the Igbo across the niger

Ika has nothing to do with Igbo across the Niger?.You lie.
Where in Ika are you from,let's see if a large part of your ancestry is not Igbo from across the Niger.

CFCfan:
Hmm.
That's quite interesting. So, the likes of Ngige, Etiaba, and Segun Oni can be legally referred to as ex-governors. Amazing.

So said the Electoral Act before it was amended.It's that same mischief the amended Constitution is trying to cure by time-limiting election petition and also allowing elections to hold three months before expiration of current term(s).
Allows enough time both ends to clear up litigation so the rightful/legal winner is sworn in

theV0ice:
If confirmed elected, she'll be the first ELECTED female governor.

Dame Etiaba's own still get k-leg because peter Obi's impeachment that brought her up was confirmed by the courts to be Illegal so her 'governorship' was illegal as something can't stand on nothing

And if you well read the Electoral Act and the Constitution,you will see that vacuum in govt at any time is totally abhorred.Peter Obi's impeachment was illegal, but going by the Electoral Act Etiaba's tenure was legal.So also Ngige's administration,though illegitimate.
Etiaba is Nigeria's first female governor,though unelected.

chukwudi44:
Fayose's elections can no longer be annulled,the ekiti elections petition tribunal has finished sitting and closed.The last court for the Governorship elections tribunal, the appeal court has upheld his elections. A normal court cannot adjudicate on this matter besides the law stipulates all elections matters must be concluded within180 days after the elections

The final court for governorship election petition is the Supreme Court,not the Court of Appeal.Get with the times

dachpee:
GEJ will win, he has 15 states presently above 25%, he needs just nine states to win irrespective of the total votes. The remaining states are Bayelsa, Rivers, Benue, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Ebonyi, Adamawa,Taraba, these are states Gej is sure of winning with at least 80%:20%, 15+12=27 states above 25% votes cast. Niger, Gombe, Lagos, 50:50. Then Bauchi, Borno, Yobe, Zamfara Buhari is sure of wining, 80%:20%. 13+7= 20, it's not up to 24 minimum states of 2/3. That is my analysis, so hopefully gej will be declared the winner.

Let me burst your bubble,APC has already won Adamawa and has an unassailable lead in Benue.Also,popular votes are first counted before national spread (25% in 24 states).Of the two requirements,Buhari has the lead.So,how are you going to knock him out?.
Oh,it's neck n neck in Taraba with PDP having an edge,same as in Edo,not your rubbish 80:20

Arysexy:
Don't mind them.

They are rejoicing apc won in some area, But pdp also got d 25% needed in those area apc won.

SS / SE, buhari is getting below 5%

Let see How He will do d magic

Erm.....sorry to burst your bubble,he needs 25% in only 24 states and Fct + overall majority in order to be elected,not 25% in all the states.
The North has 19 states while the West has 6,I believe that gives him 25 states already.

manneger2:
Otolo ward 006
ebubechukwu uzo(capital oil) home town, pdp all d way
apc=1
Pdp=293

Otolo does not have ward 6.There are only 10 wards in Nnewi North LGA,3 in Otolo,3 in Uruagu,2 in Umudim n 2 in Nnewichi.Where the hell did you manufacture ward 6 from?.
FYI,I'm from Uruagu ward 002

Descartes:
You're the clown here. So you mean Buhari will get 25% of the total votes cast in six states in the West?Remember in law that a fail in one is a fail in all. I laugh in cantonese

Really,you are too dull.There's no single state in the southwest he won't get 25%,same goes for all the northern states and abuja.That's 26 territories,when constitutionally he only needs 25 (24 states + abuja).Hope that's elementary enough for you to grasp.
By the way,I'm looking on 2 more states for him in the southeast and another 2 in the south-south 25%-wise.

integralng:
Does the headline as presented by Thisday convey the content of the body of report?In my view,Thisday is becoming very unprofessional in its coverage.I did not read anywhere in the report where President Jonathan spoke with King of Morocco.Thisday Newspaper is becoming the loud-speaker of PDP these days.And it is doing it unintelligently.Even Fani-Kayode who is the GEJ's campaign vuvuzela tried to ignore the fact Jonathan lied about his speaking with the King of Morocco.

Bless you.
Was thinking same too.How did the headline correlate with the body of the story?.Did Jonathan speak on the phone with the Morrocan king or not?

I collected my PVC last week,in Anambra.Come see PVCs all over the place,with the girl in charge of distribution begging people to come collect and to reach out to those who haven't.Yet,many no-nothings will come on here and start shouting JEGA and INEC.
If you're in Nnewi and you doubt me,visit Uruagu Ward 2 PVC collection point,Akaboezem n see for yourself.

owobokiri:
Very peurile and typical argeument from a fervent disciples of the Angry Peoples Community! Is jonathan running against martins Onovo or against one epileptic buhari? This is 2015 and not 1983. An octagenerian with questionable health and shaky intellectual resjme is the worst candidate for the post of the presidency. With all his genocidal pazt and coup making pedigree, this frail upstart is a massive emberassment to Nigerias democracy. He wouldn't have been this relevant, if not for rampaging tribalists like the quoted poster above who in their clannish stupor are desperate to make a point.

Yobo was lucid and coherent. He willingly resigned from the captainship of the super Eagles in order to give the younger ones the chance to blossom. He didnt stick his butt in there like some indinspensable God sent messaich egg head whose oversized ego needs to be periodically massaged every 4 years so our dogs and baboons won't go go extinct! A frail granpa should be at home taking care of his grand children.., teaching them how to count 1, 2, 3 and A, B, C. . e shouldn't be the one always caught dodging debates, forging certificates while being smuggled into the country at the wee hours of the night by a highly corrupt/compromised bunch of over-reaching bunch of mercenery politicians, some of them younger than his children.

Again, it is not jonathans fault that Maradona and Eusobio didnt ply their trade in Nigeria. If your guardian angel Buhari lifted a finger to put in plac strong modern administrative set up within the sports ministry, rather than flooding officialdom with tribal rabid dogs, maybe the Nigerian league wlwill stand a chance of comparing healthily with say that of South Africa today. Yobo went to Europe for the same reasons players from china, Brazil, argentina and South Africa go to Europe.

Never again shall we allow viibrant coupist s with thier dirty genocidal pedigree to torpedo the course of our democratic evolution. Never again. . Politics is not magic. . Your lanky alfa should go and rest. .

So,you don't know that Martins Onovo is the candidate on NCP in this election and you talk of "puerile"?.Indeed,sorry is your middlename

"Clueless Personified: Stealing Is Not Corruption-Evidence of Stupidity"
Chai,laugh wan tear my belle.Hehehehehehe