₦airaland Forum

Mbeki:
Obj did not say even Jesus cannot conduct election, He said that even if Jesus conduct election, that Nigerians will still dispute it.
He understands human beings more that his accusers, read the old testament of the Bible and see a classic case of human grudging, even to God their creator.

Rheinmetal:
Please join me and scream blue murder!!

khanye:
Dont mind that f.o.o.l jare, Pep played Jose 4 times this season he won 2, jose won 1 (which Mattered most)
the last one ended in a draw, i wonder why they are screaming

scantee:
Goal disallowed
Once again the incorrect decision from the ref. The law is against deliberate handball; how an arm against a player's stomach, with no more than a yard between him and the kicker, can comprise a deliberate playing of the ball with the hand is not clear. Had Toure his arm outstretched even distance would not count in his favour, but he sought absolutely no advantage and could have made no other manoeuvre.

Forza barca

scantee:
Barca will shock the whole world today.
forza barca

Arkison:
Reading his speech, what I understand is that Okar is a very passionate, overzealous and a very ambitious soilder and at the sametime too young, myopic, naive and above all clueless.

The speech is like a conjucture of some Nairaland posts. While contradicting himself in the speech, he also shows his limited knowledge of Nigeria.

odogwu-x:
The Gideon Orkar coup would have liberated this country from slavery in a heartbeat of its success. His agenda was as revolutionary as they come. What proved their undoing was faulty planning and cocaine use (they were as high kites).

FACE:
Edoyad, if those guys were more enlightened than the Almajiris, it did not show in their coup manifesto/agenda.

Did you read the conditions for letting those states back into the federation ? What they said, in effect was that without their choice of Sultan (rightly or wrongly) that the affected states were not part of Nigeria. In other words, the faith of the entity hinged on the enthronement of an individual to an inconsequential throne/caliphate. Clutching at straws in my opinion.

I have only addressed the part of the coup you highlighted. I could take the whole speech apart but it would be a waste of my time. Of-course, they had a few good points but they lacked substance.

Failure was well earned.

"Fellow Nigerian Citizens,

On behalf of the patriotic and well-meaning peoples of the Middle Belt and the southern parts of this country, I , Major Gideon Orkar, wish to happily inform you of the successful ousting of the dictatorial, corrupt, drug baronish, evil man, deceitful, homo-sexually-centered, prodigalistic, un-patriotic administration of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.  We have equally commenced their trials for unabated corruption, mismanagement of national economy, the murders of Dele Giwa, Major-General Mamman Vatsa, with other officers as there was no attempted coup but mere intentions that were yet to materialise and other human rights violations.

The National Guard already in its formative stage is disbanded with immediate effect.  Decrees Number 2 and 46 are hereby abrogated.  We wish to emphasise that this is not just another coup but a well conceived, planned and executed revolution for the marginalised, oppressed and enslaved peoples of the Middle Belt and the south with a  view to freeing ourselves and children yet unborn from eternal slavery and colonisation by a clique of this country.

Our history is replete with numerous and uncontrollable instances of callous and insensitive dominatory repressive intrigues by those who think it is their birthright to dominate till eternity the political and economic privileges of this great country to the exclusion of the people of the Middle Belt and the south.

They have almost succeeded in subjugating the Middle Belt and making them voiceless and now extending same to the south.

It is our unflinching belief that this quest for domination, oppression and marginalisation is against the wish of God and therefore, must be resisted with the vehemence.

Anything that has a beginning must have an end.  It will also suffice here to state that all Nigerians without skeleton in their cupboards need not to be afraid of this change. However, those with skeleton in their cupboards have all reasons to fear, because the time of reckoning has come.

For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state the three primary reasons why we have decided to oust the satanic Babangida administration.  The reasons are as follows:

(a)  To stop Babangida's desire to cunningly, install himself as Nigeria's life president at all costs and by so doing, retard the progress of this country for life.  In order to be able to achieve this undesirable goals of his, he has evidently started destroying those groups and sections he perceived as being able to question his desires.

Examples of groups already neutralised, pitched against one another or completely destroyed are:

(1)  The Sokoto caliphate by installing an unwanted Sultan to cause division within the hitherto strong Sokoto caliphate.

(2)  The destruction of the peoples of Plateau State, especially the Lantang people, as a balancing force in the body politics of this country.

(3)  The buying of the press by generous monetary favours and the usage of State Security Service, SSS, as a tool of terror.

(4)  The intent to cow the students by the promulgation of the draconian decree Number 47.

(5)  The cowing of the university teaching and non-teaching staff by an intended massive purge, using the 150 million dollar loan as the necessitating factor.

(6)  Deliberately withholding funds to the armed forces to make them ineffective and also crowning his diabolical scheme through the intended retrenchment of more than half of the members of the armed forces.

Other pointers that give credence to his desire to become a life president against the wishes of the people are:

(1)  His appointment of himself as a minister of defence, his putting under his direct control the SSS, his deliberate manipulation of the transition programme, his introduction of inconceivable, unrealistic and impossible political options, his recent fraternisation with other African leaders that have installed themselves as life presidents and his dogged determination to create a secret force called the national guard, independent of the armed forces and the police which will be answerable to himself alone, both operationally and administratively.

It is our strong view that this kind of dictatorial desire of Babangida is unacceptable to Nigerians of the 1990's, and, therefore, must be resisted by all.

(b)    Another major reason for the change is the need to stop intrigues, domination and internal colonisation of the Nigerian state by the so-called chosen few.  This, in our view, has been and is still responsible for 90 percent of the problems of Nigerians.   This indeed has been the major clog in our wheel of progress.

This clique has an unabated penchant for domination and unrivalled fostering of mediocrity and outright detest for accountability, all put together have been our undoing as a nation.

This will ever remain our threat if not checked immediately.  It is strongly believed that without the intrigues perpetrated by this clique and misrule, Nigeria will have in all ways achieved developmental virtues comparable to those in Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, India, and even Japan.

Evidence, therefore, this cancerous dominance has as a factor constituted by a major and unpardonable clog in the wheel of progress of the Nigerian state.  It is suffice to mention a few distasteful intrigues engineered by this group of Nigerians in recent past. These are:

(1)  The shabby and dishonourable treatment meted on the longest serving Nigerian general in the person of General Domkat Bali, who in actual fact had given credibility to the Babangida administration.

(2)  The wholesale hijacking of Babangida's administration by the all powerful clique.

(3)  The disgraceful and inexplicable removal of Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, Professor Tam David-West, Mr. Aret Adams and so on from office.

(4)  The now-pervasive and on-going retrenchment of Middle Belt and southerners from public offices and their instant replacement by the favoured class and their stooges.

(5)  The deliberate disruption of the educational culture and retarding its place to suit the favoured class to the detriment of other educational minded parts of this country.

(6)  The deliberate impoverishment of the peoples from the Middle Belt and the south, making them working ghosts and feeding on the formulae of 0-1-1- or 0-0-0 while the aristocratic class and their stooges are living in absolute affluence on a daily basis without working for it.

(7)  Other countless examples of the exploitative, oppressive, dirty games of intrigues of its class, where people and stooges that can best be described by the fact that even though they contribute very little economically to the well being of Nigeria, they have over the years served and presided over the supposedly national wealth derived in the main from the Middle Belt and the southern part of this country, while the people from these parts of the country have been completely deprived from benefiting from the resources given to them by God.

(c)  The third reason for the change is the need to lay a strong egalitarian foundation for the real democratic take off of the Nigerian state or states as the circumstances may dictate.

In the light of all the above and in recognition of the negativeness of the aforementioned aristocratic factor, the overall progress of the Nigerian state a temporary decision to excise the following states namely, Sokoto, Borno, Katsina, Kano and Bauchi states from the Federal Republic of Nigeria comes into effect immediately until the following conditions are met.

The conditions to be met to necessitate the re-absorption of the aforementioned states are as following:

(i)  To install the rightful heir to the Sultanate, Alhaji Maccido, who is the people's choice.

(ii)  To send a delegation led by the real and recognised Sultan Alhaji Maccido to the federal government to vouch that the feudalistic and aristocratic quest for domination and operation will be a thing of the past and will never be practised in any part of the Nigeria state.

By the same token, all citizens of the five states already mentioned are temporarily suspended from all public and private offices in Middle Belt and southern parts of this country until the mentioned conditions above are met.

They are also required to move back to their various states within one week from today.  They will, however, be allowed to return and joint the Federal Republic of Nigeria when the stipulated conditions are met.

In the same vein, all citizens of the Middle Belt and the south are required to come back to their various states pending when the so-called all-in-all Nigerians meet the conditions that will ensure a united Nigeria.  A word is enough for the wise.


This exercise will not be complete without purging corrupt public officials and recovering their ill-gotten wealth, since the days of the oil boom till date.  Even in these hard times, when Nigerians are dying from hunger, trekking many miles to work for lack of transportation, a few other Nigerians with complete impunity are living in unbelievable affluence both inside and outside the country.

We are extremely determined to recover all ill-gotten wealth back to the public treasury for the use of the masses of our people.  You are all advised to remain calm as there is no cause for alarm.  We are fully in control of the situation as directed by God.  All airports, seaports and borders are closed forthwith.

The former Armed Forces Ruling Council is now disbanded and replaced with National Ruling Council to be chaired by the head of state with other members being a civilian vice-head of state, service chiefs, inspector general of police, one representative each from NLC, NUJ, NBA, and NANS.

A curfew is hereby imposed from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. until further notice.  All members of the armed forces and the police forces are hereby confined to their respective barracks.

All unlawful and criminal acts by those attempting to cause chaos will be ruthlessly crushed.  Be warned as we are prepared at all costs to defend the new order.

All radio stations are hereby advised to hook on permanently to the national network programme until further notice.

Long live all true patriots of this great country of ours. May God and Allah through his bountiful mercies bless us all."

AjanleKoko:
While I am a Barca fan, I'll still go ahead to present my objective views of the game:

1.Barcelona are not so good on the road, or at least have not been this year. They have won only one game away, to Dynamo Kiev 2-1. A stronger side, and the story would have been entirely different for that game.

2.Whether they like to admit it or not, the long road trip must have played a role in the loss. I mean, I've not seen Barca look so disjointed in a long time. They really looked tired. These games are high-pressure. There's no way you can travel 14 hours on the road, and still go 100%, at this level. I guess they don't want to be seen as making excuses.

Mourinho certainly knew how to break up the play. Barca play a high offside line, and they often get caught on the break. I was expecting to see more of the 1st half formation against Real Madrid. That would have guaranteed a packed middle, balls keenly contested, and then the more visionary strikers will punish any slip-ups.

Bad refereeing (Inter's good fortune I guess, since Barca had same last year at the same stage) had some role to play as well.

5. Messi wasn't really marked out, he was just not in the game per se. Somehow the boy was just not up to it on the night. So much for people who says he carries the hope of Barca on his shoulders. Me I just think he's one of the cleverest strikers in the modern game, and will punish you if he gets the chance.

I think we will see a different type of game at the Camp Nou. Jose will definitely try to sit back and wait for the break, like he did against Chelsea, knowing that Barca will come out. Barca will definitely play their game, and may just achieve the two unreplied goals. But they need to raise the level to something beyond what we have seen all season. Pep has to sit down with his co-gaffers, and analyse Inter, as well as his team's apparent weaknesses. They have the spirit and they're hungry for it this season. But they're no complete side.

kay_pumpin:
Ronaldihno did MAGIC with Barca and couldn't replicate same with AC means he useless abi?
CR7 doing presently well in Real?Any exact achievement?

honeric01: Inter and Barca played 5 times, Inter won just 1 out of that 5, now mourinho's suddenly a genius, why was he not a genius in the first 4 games? a genius coach should have wont all the 5 matches both clubs have played so far. una wey no no anything for football, follow follow fans like una.

Gold-mind:
This is the second Northerner who has ever thought well, after Rtd. Col. Umar. I think the life style of a common Northerner will improve if they all begin to think like this.

Dis Guy:
How sad of  you

You didnt quote Former ministers of Finance
You didnt quote Experience Bank managers
You didnt quote Business owner or manufacturers
You didnt even quote 'weekend' Harvard Business alumni

you are quoting a Security Adviser a Mallam that didn't go to a 'top school abroad' 
A farmer owner who cant get loans over the phone like before