₦airaland Forum

Adaure4ever:
why will joe igbokwe contest for Lagos governorship when he is not a Yoruba?
Can an Abakiliki man be allowed to contest for just a Councillor position in Anambra?

I hope you know the first mayor of Enugu was a fulani man who defeated an Ibibio man in elections to administer Enugu for years. In that same period the likes of Ahmadu Bello and Akintola were recording hate speeches about igbos and the Northern Nigerian parliament was deliberating on things like revoking C of O of igbo owned lands in the north.

Igbos voted a fulani man in Enugu, in that period let that sink in. Do you even understand what it takes to have a nation? Pls wake up the system has been skewed against you from before you were born. IPOB if anything has lent voice to your predicament at great cost. For goodness sake respect that

I always get suspicious when I hear statements like IPOB IS DISCREDITING THEIR STRUGGLE WITH THEIR "RUDENESS OR HARSH WORDS".

I laugh because in the Nigeria of today where Igbo lives were considered cheap for decades by everybody since the war we never had anybody speak up for us but rather we get taunted in real life and the internet whenever our ppl are killed or attacked in the north or yorubaland. They tell us "go back to your land" when we get too "familiar" and yet we never say that to their ppl in the east who are plenty. Whether they agree or not IPOB agitations are drawing attention to the igbo question in ways that ohaneze and other expired opportunistic "respectful" groups will never do.

Nigeria is a gangster country, controlled by the same gang since 1966. That gang never respects what it doesnt fear. Saro Wiwa was feared and eventually killed by the Nigerian gangster state and even in death his spirit is still feared hence the ND has a little respect today. The spirit of IPOB is here to stay whether we like how they talk or not so far they stay non-violent like true igbos. I just pray they refine their methods of protest to avoid loss of life and murder by the bloodthirsty, dictatorial Nigerian state

Allann:
My bro, yorubas know their interest, as well those who are fighting its course. GEJ insulted the yorubas but shortly before the election, he suddenly remembered that he should award some contracts to OPC to pacify the yorubas. My bro," he no dey work like that for our side".

Ronu o! Know your real foe

Allann:
Ok. Tinubu and Obj sold SW out, to who and for how much? The issue with ur type is this rigid believe about ethnicity/tribalism. In reality, politics is about calculations and negotiations. The lack of tact in handling these two was the simple reason why GEJ lost in the last election, and some people still crying of marginalisation.
The only reason why most people were against gej conference was because it was too close to the end of his administration which could frustrate the implementation.

They sold out to the owners of APC. That was not a calculation sir. It was a betrayal.

Even you know your excuse about GEJ conference is very weak

I remember how Yorubas generally turned against OPC and the remnants of NADECO (Femi Okorounmu and co) branding them PDP. Two groups that stood eye ball to eyeball with Abacha to demand justice. Pity because it looked obvious that their agitations for true federalism were not convenient for APC/OBJ ambitions

I remember how Yorubas generally turned against OPC and the remnants of NADECO (Femi Okorounmu and co) branding them PDP. Two groups that stood eye ball to eyeball with Abacha to demand justice. Pity

Allann:
Its obvious you've not been following the trend in Nigeria politics. The stance of Yoruba from Awo till now is still the same - true federalism. In fact, just last week, the Vice President reiterated this position. But the problem is that since the time of Ironsi who altered the system by introducing unitary system, the region that is benefitting from the malady has refused to let go. Also, the long period of military rule which favoured some regions made it more complex. Now, the yorubas think of political solution but some other regions think of violent solution. My only headache is, if this agitation was genuine, when gej was there, what did he do about it? Oh, I leant he empowered a handful of militants as against the general interest of the regions.

No sir. The VP categorically did "about-face" last week regarding restructuring to the shock of Afenifere and few Yorubas left that Tinubu hasnt pocketed.

GEJ convened the National Conference that Yorubas have been crying for for decades but Tinubu was the first to condemn it even before it could start because he had an eye on the seat of VP. If the report of the conference is implemented the South West will get regional autonomy but Tinubu and Obasanjo have sold the region out.

Leave matter SW has moved from the progressives of Awo and co to OBJ mafia and Tinubu touts

Maj Gen Aboyade is the latest fall-guy. Pity

Sai wan naijeriya!
First Brig. Gen. Ransome Kuti now Maj Gen Aboyade.

raumdeuter:
Your focus is different, your focus is not on your dead state or your cursed region , your focus is not on your people fleeing en masse like Syrian refugee, your focus is on Lagos where the peoples life are better than yours, where your people flee to

Its like a Somalian saying his focus is not on the famine in his country but his focus is on a dustbin in Brooklyn while his own family are suffering untold hardship

At least you have agreed that Fashola did not build ONE health centre (leave General Hospital for now sef its beyond that clown's imagination) for millions of Lagosians between Epe and VI. I dont know why Osun immigrants to Lagos like you and eko ile are so excited by expensive eye candy like bridges. Your state is in the 19th century so I am not surprised

The real lagosians are more refined and have their priorities well arranged. Lagosians will be delivered from the Osun tout mafia headed by Ogunlere (Tinubu), fashole and their shit packers like you on nairaland

The North neutered the South-West o. Ably assisted by OBJ and Tinubu. By 1998 with the whole June 12 and abacha vs nadeco episode, the Yorubas wanted out of Nigeria. OPC was on fire and it seemed certain the SW would accept regional autonomy in the very least.

Fast forward to 2016 after a yoruba president and a yoruba vice president who is married to the grand daughter of Awo the man that was a champion of true federalism (until 1966 of course). A VP that is the political son of Tinubu a self styled awoist and former advocate of regionalism changing his mind about true federalism?

Nothing can surprise us again in this country

raumdeuter:
Fashola built road, they would say he didnt build bridge, he built bridge they would say he didnt build other instrastructure, he did they say he didnt build hospital, he built hospital now senseless tools like yourself are on to "He didnt build hospital in Epe -VI"

Dont you realize how patently stupidd you sound?

When would you hold the governors in your accountable for the deplorable state your region is why every young man have to flee from the cursed region to have any chance at a decent life

Dayokanu grow small brain na

If e hungry you go suck ass of ppl wey dey sing song about roads and flyover. my focus is different.

So the millions of ppl resident between Epe and VI dont deserve a health facility because fashole planted few flowers? Even the Lekki - Epe Expressway fraud still enter despite it starting out as a PPP.

Smh

aressssa:
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You are back?

What else do you have? That your village governors who can not build a common village 2nd niger bridge built Lekki Ikoyi Bridge?



Silly ipobs

Eko Ile the militant gogomi! So your tin god fashola could not build one health centre from Epe down to CMS in 8 years and you dey here dey hype bridge.

i guess taking selfie on bridge with disco lights is priority over lives. Kontinu

raumdeuter:
In your entire region not state I mean region, show us any bridge half of the Lekki bridge. You said private investor. Why are the private investors avoiding your cursed village.

And you are free to also show us a maternity center in your entire region that can match LASUTH

Dayokanu park well

We are asking why fashole could not build one General Hospital for the millions of people between Epe and VI you dey here dey give Eko ile moral support. Despite the trillions of tax money and FAAC.

aressssa:
Private companies built the bridge funded and owned by the people of Lagos satte and Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency (LASPARK)?
Must you ipobs prove to us how ignorant, dull and unintelligent you are?

eko ile put your claws together for yourself beach crab like you. so you use all tax payers money to build bridge to enable pinshure taking but no state govt hospital from Epe through to VI. till you reach CMS.

yet we expect eko ile's messiah fashola to give us power.

Kwakwakwakwa

Eko ile how far? This one u dey post pic of private company bridge, it appears they have renewed your subscription.

Make we no even comment on Fashola and his current failures how come the man no fit build ONE govt hospital in entire Lekki axis in his 8 years you dey show us bridge built with private $$

The fog of the 2015 general election is finally clearing up; the falsehoods sold to the people as change are unravelling at dizzying speeds. Even some vociferous supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari are deserting him in droves. Those who have not openly expressed some apprehension about the path the “messiah” has chosen to lead the country are grumbling and sniveling. However, a few diehards are still clinging to a tiny strand of hope that a miracle just might happen and things would change for the better under his government.

Well, it is going to get old saying I told you so. I can bet my bottom naira that nothing is going to change, at least not from what we have seen so far. As I have repeatedly stated in this column, change cannot come from a man who has not changed one bit, nor shown the slightest inclination to change contrary to the tales that were peddled on the campaign train. That will only happen when it’s proved that a leopard can now change its spots, or a tiger can change its stripes. His recent actions are a further proof of his ironclad narrow-minded, and ethnically inclined nature.

Those who collectively misled the people that Buhari had changed but are now singing a different tune must be held to account. We were bombarded with all sorts of virtuous and exemplary conducts of his past, and told his ethno-religious tendencies were “contrived” to undermine him. We were assured that Buhari would heal this land and restore hope to a fractured people. That has not happened; instead he has more than any president in the history of Nigeria consciously exacerbated the ethnic and religious divisions of the country by his actions and total display of insensitivity by his appointments.

They told us that he was the expected one – the long-awaited messiah who would bring back the glory of the fatherland and restore the pride of a people that were terribly famished. That wishful thinking has now clearly exploded in the faces of the proponents who spent their precious naira burnishing his image with cosmetics, as the candidate played along to the excitement of many.

In the last one year, the Nigerian economy has practically collapsed under the great “fixer”; the business environment has been scorched to the ground. Hunger and starvation have become daily companions of many people such that parents now exchange children for food. The change agents told Nigerians the ominous sounds of the prospect of a Buhari presidency that rang out so loudly during the electioneering were in fact drumbeats of exhilaration, hope and renewal.

Today, Nigeria stands challenged in all spheres, rudderless and floundering like never before. And of course we have so many astonishingly ridiculous and perverse people making silly excuses for the man who clearly has no business being at the helm of affairs of this country. Now it seems so obvious that Buhari and his party were very good at making promises but only excel spectacularly at making excuses for not fulfilling them.

The clamour for change can be categorised into four broad subheads, viz., the genuine change-seekers, the willfully blinded, those that lost out in the power struggle and had become spiteful, and the extremely partisan and sneaky activists who now even look the other way as the rule of law is mocked and torn to shreds.

It is true that many people yearned for a more fundamental change and desired it desperately; indeed, they still do. They constituted the genuine but ignorant, naive, vulnerable and undiscerning majority. These genuine change-seekers however became easily susceptible to the illusions called “change” promised by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its standard-bearer who walked about with padded feet, waving and smiling sweetly at everyone to frenzied applauses from enthusiastic crowds.

Secondly were those who chose to be willfully blinded to the danger signals that were so glaringly visible that then Candidate Muhammadu Buhari represents.

Thirdly was the category who embraced change more out of spite and malice than conviction that Buhari’s presidency would bring the much-needed elixir and healing to this troubled country. Having lost out in the struggle for power and control, they wanted to get back at former President Goodluck Jonathan. And in a clear act of sheer desperation, progressive-minded people joined forces with ultra-conservatives in an unholy alliance to get power.

Lastly were members of the intellectual/
activist class who staked their reputations built over many years to sway support for the general on the extremely naive and dishonest premise that Buhari had changed. By endorsing Buhari, they were endorsing a brand of populism rooted on a campaign of half-truths, “true lies”, ignorance, prejudice, sectional politics and outright deception driven by a motivation to mislead the people to achieve power. To this group, the end justified the means.

The intellectual/activist class is particularly guilty of the situation we find ourselves today. They vouched for Buhari with such vigour and gusto that left the discerning dumbfounded. Our own hero and Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, stood shoulder above all others on this score. This was how he expressed his love for him: “It is however just as purblind to insist that he has not demonstrably striven to become what he most glaringly was not, to insist that he has not been chastened by intervening experience and – most critically – by a vastly transformed environment – both the localised and the global.” This to me was a pure fiction.

There is a saying in the land of my fathers that the hardest thing in life is vouching for someone, especially someone you barely know. When you do that, you are indirectly saying, ‘I’m putting my reputation on the line. I believe this person is a good person, with good character’, or has changed. This was what Nigerians were told. Soyinka and co. stood as referees for Buhari when he applied for the position of the president of Nigeria. They vouched for a changed Buhari and encouraged the public to employ him for the top job.
Will Soyinka honestly tell Nigerians whether this was the change he assured them would come from Buhari? Has Soyinka seen the lopsided appointments Buhari has been making across all strata of government? It is a chilling reminder of his past stint in office, particularly his tenure as the Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF); a past that was denied by his hysterical supporters in the run-up to the election.

Professor Pat Utomi was one of those who like our own dear Soyinka put his reputation on the line to reassure the people that Buhari “will restore hope” and lead Nigeria out of the woods during the high fever of electioneering.
You can imagine my profound shock and disbelief a few months ago when he launched a scalding attack on President Buhari and his government for the beyond-belief manner he was managing the national fault lines as well as his poor handling of the economy. This was what he was reported to have said: “The problem with Buhari’s administration is his medieval mindset. He excludes rather than includes. So, he does not get the best idea. He is insular. Because of their medieval mindset, they have created a country that is more divided than they met it. And that is a problem for leadership that is marching towards progress. His ideas go back 30 years and they are irrelevant to this world.
Open up your mind and listen to people and you can make progress. To lead is to serve. To lead, you must be knowledgeable. People don’t follow somebody who doesn’t know where he is going. Otherwise, you fall into a ditch.” After reading that statement, I could not but asked myself and anyone who cared to listen, did he just know this about Buhari? I’m baffled as to how I could have seen it all and more experienced people like Utomi didn’t.

As if Utomi’s about-face was not dramatic enough, read what Oby Ezekwesili of Bring Back Our Girls fame had to say about the administration: “Buhari’s economic policies are archaic and opaque, reminiscent of his first coming in the 80s. During that era, inflation spiralled. During that era, jobs were lost. During that era, the economic growth level dipped. That era wasn’t the best of eras in economic progress. “What did not work in 1984 cannot possibly be a solution in a global economy that’s much more integrated.”
She accused Buhari of rehashing the same “command and control” approach towards economic issues which has left the country’s economic indices worse off, adding: “We have lost the single digits inflation status we maintained in past administrations.”
The question we should all ask our bouncy campaigner is: did she just know this about Buhari? The truth is, she was one of those who consciously ignored the danger signals that were all so visible to everyone but which many chose to be willfully blinded to. The Chibok girls’ plight became a vote-catcher for then Candidate Buhari who repeatedly played it up and assured the nation it would top his list of priorities only to quickly relegate it to the footnote after gaining power. Where is Professor Charles Soludo? Is he still in this country? If yes, then he must be grumbling quietly by now about the state of the economy. That is, if his economic theories still make any sense. But why is he not talking? The change he helped foist on the people is mutating into a crippling police state.

The economy is in a perilous state – on the verge of a recession. Is he not aware? To the chagrin of investors recently, a “changed” Buhari lest we forget, talked down the CBN new forex policy moments after endorsing it, thereby making many potential investors to nervously wait and watch from the sidelines. Now, won’t Soludo tell Nigerians how much the country has lost through the mismanagement of the economy, lack of policy direction and lost investment opportunities under one year of Buhari — N10 trillion, N20 trillion, N30 trillion or more? It will be interesting to hear from him, that is, if he still has the courage of his conviction. It is a crying shame that a first-class economist of Soludo’s stature was one of those who just couldn’t see through the facade of lies; maybe he did, but was driven more by petty revenge and that disease that afflicts only black people.
It is a double tragedy that he even aided and abetted the campaign of malicious lies with his allegation of “missing” or “mismanaged” N30 trillion during the run-up to the presidential election. It was a season when the walking wounded with malice in their hearts would come to the public space to spew rubbish just because they wanted to hug the headlines the next day. It keeps me up at night knowing that they willfully led this nation back to a replay of 1984/85, the consequences of which are the debilitating economic and socio-political crises we have today.

Let Nigerians ask former President Olusegun Obasanjo whether this is the “Nigeria of our dreams” he so gleefully told the world Buhari was building some months ago. The same Obasanjo acknowledged even before the election that Buhari knew next to nothing about economic management but went on to recommend him for the top job. Obasanjo who instituted an enquiry into the activities of the PTF even denied the findings. It was the height of fierce determination to push through his spiteful “change”. If Buhari was not good on the economy, he has even proved worse on politics. No one can tell for sure, maybe, just maybe, this was the change they meant after all.

Agatu woman sleeps next to her new best friend

Avicii ft Aloe Blacc - Wake me up
Very deep

This government is evil o. They just caught some street boys and are probably torturing the hell out of them to confess.

Despicable

Joke of the millenium. How can a seed germinate in boiling water?

nora544:
Sorry that is no painting that is like photos look at that time. I can show you so many photos from that time and why you couldnot beliefe.
http://pinterest.com/ewserk/vintage-color-photos/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography

interesting links

Aigbofa:
I am saying he deserves to rest. He is a grand old man now, let younger Nigerians like the op and others on this thread pick up the gauntlet. Afterall, Soyinka was in his twenties when he started speaking up.

It is a shame that most of the ranters on this thread are about Soyinka's age when he started his activism, yet they still expect him at 85 to keep fighting for them.

He was consistently speaking up not long ago na. his sudden silence is fuelling rumours he has gone partisan

Aigbofa:
Really? The same thing he has been doing since he was in his twenties! Soyinka grew up but Nigeria refused to grow, whose fault?

Grew up into what pls? Are you saying he is no longer an activist?

Thats why we no send dem message during occupy nigeria. Lol

BiafranPrince:
The Federal Government, yesterday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, why it was not in a hurry to release the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, claiming that its investigations revealed that Kanu, who it identified as the brain behind recent clamour for the creation of ‘Biafra Republic’, had already received huge sums of money to purchase weapons.

Government in a counter-affidavit before the court, said that prior to his arrest, Kanu, had already made enquiries about prices of all the weapons he intends to buy.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/kanu-detained-in-the-interest-of-peace-fg-tells-court/

If Kanu actually raised money for weapons and reached out to weapons manufacturers he is in deep poo.

Truckpusher:
Your lies won't kill you again.
I said both the "Nigerian troops and the Biafran troops committed act of war crimes in the Niger Delta depending on the perceived reception they got from the same people they were supposedly to be liberating from the other defending or invading troops" pull your head out from the ass of hate and half truth , you might just see the light.

Barcanistus failed miserably when he tried to spin up a story about biafran war crimes in the ND. Provide any historical sources if you have any. I seriously doubt you do

hammariise:
I agree with you mr president, Nigerian Abraham Lincoln, even though they said you are walking slowly, you never and will never walk backward.
Am proud with you sir

Nigga pls. The country has been sliding backwards ever since grandpa took office

simpleseyi:
When these so called veterans were young, healthy and agile, the Nigerian Army humiliated them, kill their children, slept with their wives and turned them to less humans. Now, that they are very old, weak and sick, they want a revenge. I have prophesied that Biafrans that ran away to avoid being killed between 1967 to 1970 will definitely be killed one day by the same Nigerian Army. Now, my prophesy is coming to pass. Please get the Civilian Vigilante from North East who have been confronting Boko Haram to come and teach these old fools another lesson to take to their lord and personal saviour called Agbari Oju-Iku in hell.

These old men took about 500,000 of your heavily armed Nigerian soldiers over a period of 3 years and they were hungry and barely had bullets. Your brave FG soldiers were better at killing civilians than fighting men as we now know. They were pussies

OreMI22:
[size=14pt]Insurgency and guerilla warfare is the answer.
Let a professional group target soldiers and take them out with what ever they can use. be it bombs or bullets.[/size]

God forbid

aresa:
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Ode. No security vote, but Osun has the best state security apparatus in Nigeria after Lagos..


The saddest part is you loser can not show us any damn thing from your barkward and unproductive states or even what your incompetent salary owing governors did with your money...


Aregbe The Champion

Village champion. So buying few armoured personnel carriers and bulletproof vests for the police with money collected from FAAC allocation is a worthy achievement

Eko ile ooo. You could train even a monkey to do that

55 million ....smh

GstringAngela:
Stop selling ice to me i am an eskimo. Where in Abuja is this precisely ?

Jabi