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holyvirgin: Sarcasm

Oh yes, privatisation of power sector is the best thing that has happened so far and we pray that the corrupt people in government will not in anyway tamper with its progress.
Mr Bath should have stayed and fight the cabal just like his sisters are doing on a daily basis. The likes of Oduah, Okonjo etc are very strong women who knows that resigning is not the best option.
Nigeria belongs to us, and we must all come together and fight for our rights, fighting corruption is a fight we all must support.
Nice speech mr Bath

Thank god some few ppl are seeing beyond all this crucify oduah. D mama has really tried in aviation industry. They just want to frustrate GEJ administration by eliminating those performing ministers, those non-performing ministers do worst than what they are asking for oduah head for and nobody complained.

Aladinn: Your comment reek of ignorance while trying effortlessly to laden it with thoughtfulness. Is God almighty a localized entity? Does he belong to the xtians alone? That the traditional african belief system bowed to the christian and Islamic belief was not because of a "wondrous working God" as you want us to believe. The two most widespread religion had the monopoly of guns, cannons, swords, sabers ans daggers. Ask yourself, why is judaism( the parent religion to both christianity and islam) not as widespread as the other two. Is the christian God now powerful than the judaic God? Muslims conquered Jerusalem from Christians and ruled for over 700years. Are we going to assume that the muslim God is more powerful than the christian God? The foreign religions were able to gloat over their concept of a religious beliefs which the african belief systems ( defeated militarily) have to accept. Its all about the interplay between the pysche of the victor and the vanquished. Please, do tell me one new thing foreign religion changed in the youruba belief system? Fornication was frown at, same as stealing, killing and any other social vice. Taking foreign religion as the only TRUE source is a defeated pysche at work. All man to his choice. No grudges.

Million thanks for ur response. I have been cracking my brain how to respond to his posting & you bail me out.

Do you think is coincidence that yoruba believed in ejiogbe ( & erindinlogun (16) match computer believes in bit ( & byte (16). Have we ever asked ourselves what whitemen does with all those traditional status first condemned and later bought at very high price, being used for.

Wetin concerns APC with PDP unsitting Ameachi ?. When thing dey go well for Améachi in PDP, did he complained

pechiko: pls tell me what is glorious about this hand over, is it the fact that Jonathan didn't pay PHCN workers?

D question is are the PHCN workers justified the pays they are asking for to derail the Privatalization.

Controversial babe

SUBMARINE: Why are most Yoruba Nairalanders anti-GEJ even to the point of supporting the Hausa-fulani who have dealt them harshly.

No yorubas are not anti-gej. Don't mind d propagandas of just few tinubu boys for their selfish gains. D beatification comourflag and anti-masses of APC run state is becoming glaring to My people now, d general feeling of ppl I talk to in lagos & Ogun is dat dey will rather gives their vote to LP .

Dyt: I hate hypocrites

I hate hypocrites too

Asoozy: The next Awolowo in the making!

You are totally wrong, awolowo don't run anti-poor programs. A lot of us benefited from his free education and didn't drives away poor masses of any etchnics and called dem destitute. Awo did not took beatification as priority against well-being of poor masses.

gtrust: Government have official phone numbers and email addresses.
If it was money belonging ti Anambra state, you come to the agreed place and assume you are right that the recipient did not show, you will drop the money at 2am in a government office at the bridge head and reverse your car and return to Lagos

These are human-beings like you
You keep the Igbos that pay taxes and you deports the weak and hungry

YORUBA OR APC Who do we blame

Blame APC, not yoruba. The party runs Anti-poor policy. That is why u will not see them touch d rich rich people inrespective of their tribe.

Lordlexy: Statements like, "go and apologise to d oga, stop fighting your brother" and d likes, shows how politically myopic we are. Politics in d western world is about doggedness but here we have reduced politics to d level of native or village meeting, where one man's voice is d voice of god and no one dare oppose him. What Amaechi has demonstrated so far is nothing short of a true democrat who knows his onion and will defend it with everything. This brings to mind d fracas between Obj and Atiku, while d former was using every means available to discredit his vice, d latter stick to democratic principle, and eventually, he Atiku was recognise for his bravery. Amaechi mustn't win anytin, but posterity will judge who d better man was.

And you believe Atiku won that battle ? Ask Atiku how many times he has gone behind to begged Obasanjo with his dead political career.
Amaechi is following the same path. Also ask gbenga Daniel and Dimeji Bankole.

HAH: The story has changed cos initially we heard it was due to non payment of fees which we all know that universally is post paid. Now they have changed the story to manifest, well the manifest declaration before flight is the standard practice.

For the fact that suddenly the story change from fees to manifest I cannot ignore the case of political witch hunting.

Because you heard one-sided. NAMA accused the pilot for two offenses, the pilot only mentioned the one that will favored him and drawn sympathy, trying to politicalized the issue. Ask him if he can try that in his own county.

We all heard one-sided story and believed it was political witch-hurt. In another development, NAMA spokesman said instead of filling manifesto and pick the governor, the pilot just pick the governor @ state house and enback on the journey without manifesto, which they asked him to come and filled and pay necessary fee. The pilot left the manifesto story out of his story.
The pilot should be blamed.
If u don't find it too long you can read NAMA side of the story below

We Did Not Ground
Oshiomhole’s
Helicopter Says
NAMA
Posted by: Our Reporter
on June 7, 2013 in News
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The Nigeria Aviation Ministry said
on Friday that the helicopter
conveying the Edo State Governor,
Adams Oshiomhole, was not
grounded, but only asked to obey
extant rules.
The Coordinating Manager,
Information and Communications
for Aviation Parastatals, Yakubu
Datti, said the aircraft was only
called back to fill its manifest and
make some payments which the
pilot had failed to do.
“The helicopter picked the governor
from government house in Benin.
By procedure, the pilot was
supposed to file manifest and all
other procedures, but because
these were not done before takeoff,
NAMA (Nigeria Airspace
Management Agency) called them
down to do all those things.
“Of course you cannot just pick
someone up and fly over the airport
just like that,” Mr. Datti said
Mr. Oshiomhole’s trip was cut short
after the pilot of the chartered
aircraft was ordered to return to
Benin airport when he was already
airborne for Awka. The Edo State
Governor was travelling to
Anambra for the funeral of late
Colette Obi, wife of Ben Obi, a
presidential adviser on political
matters
He angry left the aircraft and
returned to his state after it was not
cleared over an hour after the pilot,
James Manahash, made necessary
payments.
The bemused Filipino pilot of the
helicopter, owned by OAS
helicopters, later expressed his
shock at the incident to journalists.
“I have been a pilot for 35 years out
of which 7 years in Nigeria. So I
was surprised when I was recalled
back to the airport after we took
off. The Governor prevailed on me
to come back and answer them.
When we got back I was told to pay
landing and aerodrome fee which
ordinarily we could pay later.
“Even after completion of the
process of payment, we were still
delayed for one hour, fifteen
minutes with the governor still
seated in the aircraft. Ordinarily
payment of such fees doesn’t take
more than ten minutes. This is not
the first time I have been flying the
governor and we have never
witnessed such a disappointment. It
is really shocking,” Mr. Manahash
stated.
The aviation ministry
spokesperson, however, explained
that the pilot was only invited to fill
his manifest and make necessary
payments.
“The governor came down got
angry while all this was happening,
said they were wasting his time
and walked out, the helicopter was
not grounded at all,” Mr. Datti said.
Mr. Datti said most of the pilots
flying Very Important Personalities
(VIPs) tend to break the ministry’s
rules. He said pilots should, for
their safety and to avoid time
wasting by any of the aviation
parastatals, drop the VIP mentality,
settle necessary bills, and follow
procedures which normally don’t
take so much time.
premium time

tomakint: Too many clowns on Nairaland lately! Jonathan is taking PDP through a phase unfortunately, many goons especially from the oppositions seem not to see the handwriting on the wall that PDP is weeding out the bad eggs and thereby creating a stronger party faithful members who will be loyal to the leader, the man, Jonathan! By the time this process is concluded, 2014 will be used as a time to win new 'faithful' that will take the opposition by surprise - you can quote me!

Most sensible post so far. Other criticized GEJ blandly,

In all this, amaechi is the all time looser. The opposition are just adding to his problems with their unguarded statement. Gej this battle, he has stylishly abolished NGF, his arch-rival.

tomakint: Sorry to burst your bubble, the gods are dead only one name can save you and that name is JESUS all those clowns you mentioned above were mere mortals like you who have since passed on, Captain Caveman!

And jesus as not passed on ? He lives in ajegunle abi ?

No apology for saying this " religion is for weak and lazy minded people who refused to use their god's given brain to think by themselves"
Every individual have a unique path to his/her creator like your fingerprints is only unique to you. We are all looking for what we did not lost and we are looking for it desperately. Most people that believe in tithing do so believing they we get some rewards back, not freely gives as they we want us to believe.
I rest my case and still stand to be corrected
Thanks

My gross against buhari then was his regime canceled free éstablished free education in the southwest instead of expanding same to other parts of the country, it affected some of us the depended on free education then, lot of students couldn't continued and fell out. That is part of what is still affecting the north up till now. Even when he has the opportunity has chairman of PTF was there any improvement in education status of the north ? So the question is what did he do with TPF opportunity to better the life of the north in particular and Nigeria in general. IBB Made sure Idiagbon wasn't arround before they stricked knowing fully well Buhari wouldn't be any issue for them, just to show you he was not a strong leader then. Between Buhari and Idiagbon you will see Idiagbon more principled than Buhari, Buhari was just head of state because hausa/fulani believed it is their birthright to rule us. Tinubu is just taking us back to internal colonization again with this marger, because all what northerners are looking for is just to get the power back.
I rest my case and stand to be corrected

naijadeyhia: [b] The Boko Haram as presently constituted has three wings. The pro-sharia Boko Haram which is the offshoot of the one led by late Alhaji Yusuf, the All Queda Boko Haram which is sponsored by Arab support and the Peoples Democratic Party Boko Haram which wants to prevent President Goodluck from contesting for a second term in 2015 or stifle his seven year tenure elongation bid. My analysis is to dissect the PDP Boko Haram and the lies they have fed Nigerians.

This party called the PDP is a bundle of deceit. The name Peoples Deceptive Party actually depicts them. When a criminal is in a locality and visits theft on the unsuspecting locals, the only way to avoid detection is to point in another direction as the search for the criminal ensues. The criminal blames the stranded traveler who lodged in a nearby motel or the stranded trader who slept in the market square or even the mentally deranged who lives near the sewage pit. This is the formula the PDP have used to make Nigerians look the other way while seeking for sponsors of Boko Haram.

Senator Ali Ndume is PDP, Inspector General of Police Ringim that supervised the escape of principal suspect bomber in Suleija on Christmas day is PDP, Zakari Biu the Commissioner of Police who executed the escape plan is PDP, the Christmas bomber is PDP registered in his village. PDP governors pays tithe to Boko Haram . The gun runner, Comrade Nuhu Mohammed , arrested for supplying arms to Boko Haram militants is PDP. His phone contacts revealed affinity with members of the Federal Executive Council, National Council of State and other PDP chieftains. The list is endless and it all points to the same source , the ruling party.

The opposition especially Congress for Progressive Change and Action Congress of Nigeria have asked the ruling party umpteenth times to unmask those behind Boko Haram. It is common knowledge within the opposition parties that the ruling party is using the Boko Haram to get at each other. The problem is that it gets far deeper than meets the eye. The PDP cannot afford to expose their Boko Haram members for fear of political recession. The entire nation is fed with lies while the bloodletting continues.

Immediately after the bombings of the United Nations headquarters in Abuja, intelligence reports indicted high level friends of government in the executive, legislature, senior party officials, elder statesmen and security officers including retired ones. It is expected that President Goodluck will seize the opportunity of the uproar and outrage against the bombings to confront the indicted senior members of the party. Instead he chose to appeal to some of them to turn a new leaf. Emboldened by presidential timidity the murderers recruited more high level personalities, hitherto sitting on the fence, into the murderous chess game.

Their strategy is to make the nation state unsafe, ungovernable for president Goodluck until he forgets his ambition of either a second term in office or the seven year tenure elongation plot. The PDP politicians in the North merely tolerated President Goodluck during the months and weeks to the presidential elections. There was so much funds to be shared in 2011 that they elected to stuff their pockets first before thinking of 2015.With hundreds of billions of naira used to purchase the northern PDP and with their pockets filled to the brim, they decided to start where they stopped. Where did they stop? They stopped when they sensed that the failure of President Goodluck to win the party ticket will likely result to his being non-partisan and thereby conducting a free and fair election at all levels. With the political realignment and discontent in the core north, a free and fair election will favor the opposition CPC. This will drive them into political oblivion and irrelevance and as such the option of free election is not desirable. Secondly the PDP politicians are not sure yet of what a Buhari presidency will do to the thieving elites. The only safe option was to swim or sink with Goodluck. Having secured their position, relevance and offices, they have resumed the zoning battle with a new coloration. The agenda is that this ‘Goodluck should not be given a breather until he wipes off any ambition beyond 2015 from his Ijaw mind’. They are yet to come to terms that a shoeless Nigerian would lord over their aristocratic birthright.

The Nigerian security forces especially the State Security Services and the Directorate of Military Intelligence have shown rare professionalism in tracking and monitoring the sponsors of Boko Haram. The problem is that the number of high profile personalities involved is such that only a presidential order would close up the matter. The President is yet to give the much awaited orders because of fear or religious, ethnic and sectional twists and propaganda. In such cases you cannot blame the monitoring agencies when the authority to enforce is not appropriately delegated. The escapist option is to blame the opposition parties.

Governors Babangida Aliyu and Rabiu Kwakwanso of Niger and Kano respectively deserve commendations because they have refused to accept Boko Haram insurgents hanging around their political space. Part of the attacks on these two states was to hit back at the intransigence of the duo over what others are condoning.

Their 2015 succession politics is not my headache because only God knows what would happen in 2015. The problem is that their succession chess game is leading to the death of numerous shoe and shoeless Nigerians and creating a pathological hatred between the Christians and Muslims of this country and the north and south of Nigeria, a trend which if not arrested, will lead to a civil war.

The Sharia Boko Haram could be checkmated by security agents, the Al-queda Boko Saram is containable by foreign military collaboration but the PDP Boko Haram could only be checkmated by northern elders or the leader of the party itself, President Goodluck. Feelers from the state House suggests a presidential helplessness and as such I deem it fit to suggest that PDP elder statesmen like Olusegun Obasanjo, Atiku Abubakar, Shehu Shagari, Alex Ekwueme, Joseph Wayas, Theophilus Danjuma and others who came to his rescue during the Yar’adua cabal face off should be invited to talk sense into their party men before they drag us all into armaggedon.
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You are just on point my brother. It is just about returning power to the north, doesn't matter to them under which party. All of them are boko haram either Pdp or APC

Is there going to be for men ?

taharqa: Exactly.

These people have always said that the FG have NOT DONE ANYTHING in their states and in the country generally; some of us have always disagreed. the NGGT is a GOOD chance to find out who is lying. Why are some people then afraid to allow all of us find out??

I wrote this comment to one of them yterday, who said that the FG had done 'NOTHING' in Lagos state in the last 2 years or thereabout:




Do I need to tell you that am still expectng a response from him??

Like I have ALWAYS said here: PROPAGANDA and Lies always fails, eventually.

Thanks for your enlightenment. I would like to add that the much talk about badagri 8 Lanes is FG and world bank project against as ACN Want us to believes is lagos state project. The tour will expose a lots of such projects. It was not fashola and oshi that were talking, u are hearing from tinubu through them.

The northern promised to make the country ungovernable for GEJ, and we can see the manifestations of their promised, if any northern become president in 2015 the SS will also make the country ungovernable too. Its all about returning power to the north, tinubu don't give a derm to whatever happen to the poor masses so far he is in charge. let Apc feed candidate from SS to allow them complete their 8years. Muslim/Muslim will not work considering the war Boko haram wage on the Christians since insertion of this regime. These are the same people that is underground frustrating GEJ regime, there is always a karma, if they gets there there will always someone there too that will be frustrating there efforts at the end of the day it is the poor that will suffer for their actions or inaction.

slimghost: Happy? Maybe! The North should have let GEJ have his one term in peace so he wouldn't have any excuse for failing. Nothing North will appeal to SE/SS, we were not born to be under them!

The northern really make the country ungovernable for GEJ as promised in order to Have the power back to the north. If the power return to the north in 2015, the SS too will make the country ungovernable too and for how long are we going to continue this ? Muslim/Muslim ticket will not work considering the crisis of BH against Christians.

Arysexy: Hmmmm this people and juju, now i know why hausa muslim dont regard them as true muslims.

And see d hausa original Muslim killing in thousands without mercy. Which one will u prefer ?

Trust like a fox. Who is trustworthy amongst our politicians.

Bros. Many thanks for the enriched info.
Every enlighting

abouzaid: Awo even claimed in the interview that they were sending food through d red cross and caritas. The source of d materials are well known, it was from biafra friends abroad especially d american red cross and d catholic church. Caritas was exclusively owned by d catholic church. That interview was just awo begging for igbo votes. Wole soyinka was imprisoned for yrs for opposing what he saw as an unjust war. Relax soyinka might soon release his review or memoir to describe awo for what he was.

Did they listened to those that said they should not go to war ? No! Ojukwu caused the war and ran away, was ojukwu children among the bombed and starved ?. Another one is calling for war now that him and his children will not pertake and u are jubilating for him. Think twice o.

onomeasike: I believe that those Biafran soldiers and the descendants of those biafran soldiers who ambushed and steal food meant for the vulnerable group are still alive.knowing the psychology of an average uniformed man even in present day nigeria,those women and children would have been derided as 'bloody civilians' who dont need the food as much as they the soldiers do.They must have been feeling wise in their eyes everytime they loot the food meant for the children.Those igbos who participated in these dastardly act should take the blame,they should apologise for stealing food meant for their wives and children.
What beats my imagination is how a war can be won by just 2 simple policies-
1)change the currency and
2) stop food from reaching the soldiers

how ojukwu(despite his oxford education in history and military trainning) and his war advisers failed to pre-empt this baffles me

incidentally,just like Osama was trained in america and later attacked americans,achebe was trained in yorubaland and even during the war,was residing in yorubaland enjoying the hospitality of the yoruba he is attacking today.
achebe hopes to make a great fortune from the sale of his book despite it would be pirated by some igbo boys,he smiles to the bank.he will be remembered as a (con)artist,an invalid cripple reference who became a bilionaire in his 80's selling falsehood and acrimony.If he would be given a state burial like ojukwu is better left to be imagined.I feel sad that achebe did not see anything wrong in the conduct of those savage biafran soldiers hijacking food meant for children.

I hope achebe remembered to put wole shoyinka and co. Efforts and contributions to avoid the war in his book. Instead of calling a spade a spade achebe is here pushing blames, there is no where u fight war and there will be peace and people will not dies. Why going into war then if you don't want killing and famine in ur land.

My question is how many of you wey dey defend awolowo or achiebe don read the so called book ? We don't know when medias dey take us make money with their sensational stories.

Na achiebe I blamed, if d man no get story to write again no be by force to write book again now.

calebrita: i felt bad and tear rolled down my cheek after watching it. pls we have 928868 members on nairaland is it possible for all of us to contribute at least N100 each for development of this school. we are not better than them its just that we only have opportunity that was given to us by God.

Post of the century! We don't have government
I don't think #100 will be too much to contribute
Thank u sir for d though. A gold mind

BoboYekini: kobojunkie, if you have no particularly meaningful contribution, why not read and watch like me?

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