macof:


We don't have Obas outside Yorubaland. There's nothing like Oba of yoruba

An Oba heads a land. This man must be a jobless nuisance, Do you really think yoruba people in Abuja take him seriously?
I spend half the year in Abuja and I've never heard anything like Oba yoruba. . it's a worthless position to give anyone

wachakuta:
Deranged senator

PRINCENWAEZE:
na u kill am


Make sure u are right oo because if not lalasticlala will deal with u oo


Lala what did u think?

49cents:



The Yorubas sdefault survival mechanism is pretense.....they act as though they are loyal, or they agree to your position while secretly plotting behind you their attack.....

I have had three back to back experiences with three "close" friends this year alone

I still live with them freely but with more awareness and still have about five as staff....i think is just their cultural way of self preservation

Politicos:
You sound oratorically patriotic, but I won't take you as a patriot unless you can provide me with a link to a similar thread you had created when the people up North in collusion with their western counterparts exploited mainstream and social media including Nairaland to mindlessly perforate the personality, policies and progress of the former President Jonathan while in office.

Are you just waking up? The complaint from your write-up spans less than two quarters, that is, since the inception of the Buhari era. Thus I am tempted to lock a partisan cum tribal chain on your neck. However I will resist the strong temptation. Are you now realising that sectarianism, ethnicity and intertribal hate are all deepening alarmingly?

In as much as I do not celebrate nor relish tribal bouts as some do, deceitful chameleon patriotism is a worse irritation.

Finally, sectarianism is not a Nairaland creation neither is Nairaland responsible for fuelling it. The tribal hate here on Nairaland is a microcosm of what happens across Nigeria. First, go tell your political elites to pull off their sectarian garments before coming back here to drag Seun along. Let him be!

Fash20:
This thing called Pappymason is crazy

Ask yourself this question.Is there any beef between france and USA? Why would CIA and MI5 sponsor a terrorist attack on innocent french people.

RichieF27:

ILLUSTRATION
Once upon a time in Aba, precisely in 1996, a well constructed and beautifully decorated 3Storey building housing tenants and a warehouse for packing imported goods was gutted down by fire, destroying houses within the building plus goods worth billions of Naira. A panel was set up to investigate the possible cause of the fire, but every attempt to unravel the puzzle led back to the conclusion that the fire was a mysterious one. At least it made sense from the context of African mentality, and the matter rested.
Few months after, 3 kids were playing within the vicinity and one of them said to the other 2: “This man has come again to burn another house”. The statement drew the attention of an older man and a meeting was called. Some youths were sent to bring the madman that the children accused.
During interrogation, the madman denied making a fire that burnt down the house. His next line of defense put everyone into confusion when he said: “I don’t know what you people are talking about”. He put his hand in his trouser pocket, brought out a matchbox and trucks a stick before concluding. “I just started a little fire besides this house, you people can go and find the person that started that big one”. That was all there is.
Nigeria was built on a tripod of lies, deceit, and hatred.
When Britain conquered the North, the Northerners refused to send their children to school because they believed in the system where one man is supposed to be the shining star (The Kings), while the rest comes to do “Rianka dede” and eat food or any other pecks. But the Biafrans were libertarians who believed in equality. They sent their people to school to learn the Whitman’s ways. After the Colonial masters left, the Biafrans held almost every clerical and administrative post in Nigeria as the educated folk, which was where the deep-rooted hatred started. The Suaduana of Sokoto in and interview said: “If there is any work to be done and there is no Hausa person to employ, we will give the job to an expatriate like you (referring to the white interviewer), but if there is none, we will consider other people like the Yoruba’s, but for the Igbos, No! There are too domineering, if you employ them today as a laborer, they will try to rise to be the manager” That tells you all you need to know. This same idealogy was the cause of massacre of the Biafrans in the North from in 1945, 1966, 1967-1970, through even to today both silently and openly. All they use it a good media story to bury it.
The discovery of oil and the supposed continued interest of Britain made them to handover Nigeria to the Northerners and reminded them that it they allow the Biafrans to go on their own, the Northerners will die of hunger because they were the poorest part of the country. So when the war broke out, reintegrating the Biafrans was the only option to keep the North surviving and the oil flowing to the Britain.
This write-up is not a history lesson, but an attempt to x-ray the main reason why Nigeria has never been one, and can never be one. Even Frederick Luggard in his report to the crown of England stated that: “Northern and Southern Nigeria are like water and oil that can never mix”.
Many years after the war, Nigeria continued to duel on the fire of lies lit by the British. They decided to hate the Biafrans for no reason. To achieve this, they started lying to the Biafrans in the Riverine areas that their problem was their brothers in the hinterland – the Ibo. It caused a division that made the Biafrans lose the war, while the North and the Yorubas gained everything, the oil and the glory. Then after the war, Biafrans were further divided with more lies of calling some parts Niger Delta, South-South, South East, Oil Patch, etc, and it has kept them divided for as long as possible while the cabals from the North keep sharing the oil money among themselves, leaving the Biafra lands undeveloped and in abject poverty. The deceit of the Nigeria government and their inhuman policies has made it impossible to survive in Biafra lands, same reason why the people of Biafra are scattered all over the world suffering untold pains, scavenging for a means to survive. Yet in their countless lies, the Northerners through the help of their Yoruba marksmen – brought an idea that the Ibo’s love money. With the help of their lying newspapers and media preponderance, they killed the brain of every Biafran and kept telling them that they hated each other. ONE Nigeria became the biggest of all the lies, because they all know very succinctly that the only thing keeping Nigeria one is the oil flowing from Biafralands and the continued oppression of the Biafrans, their subjugation and subjection to perpetual, abject poverty.
MEDIA PREPONDERANCE
One of the ways the Nigeria government has continued to spread hatred of the Biafrans by other Nigerians is in the craftiness and clear-cut interweaving of countless lies with the truth. They have over the years exercised total media blanket on the main issues of – Lies, Propaganda, Gang-up, Hatred, Tribal bigotry, Ethnic Bigotry, Sectional divides, Religious Divides, Insensitivity to people’s plight. They keep saying the Ibos are corrupt, but it will surprise anyone to know that the greatest thieves of Nigeria had been the Hausas and the Yorubas that ever led Nigeria, whereas the newspapers cover their tracks for them. The examples abound. IBB, OBJ, Umaru Dikko, Buhari, Abubakar, Abacha etc are all confirmed looters with Dollars abroad, Tinubu, Atiku to name but a few are all under the covering of the countless lies of Nigeria Media, they all still walk free upon the weight of evidences against them. But every Biafran – man or woman that has ever looted are either languishing in jail in Britain or still being hounded. The British has been a very good madman in escalating the fire they had already started, even as the 3Storey building is almost fully burnt.

THEN ENTERS NNAMDI KANU
Kanu is the director of London-based radio station, Radio Biafra, which he founded in 2009 with the help of members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Kanu explained the station, which the Nigerian government deemed illegal, aims to “bring hope, enlightenment and knowledge to our people”.
The Nigerian government claimed in July that the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) had managed to jam Radio Biafra’s signal in Nigeria. But they only lied.

One thing the Nigerian government can’t condone is the TRUTH. When Nnamdi came with the truth to educate the people, it took just a little time for him to win the peoples’ mind because the truth came on air for the first time in Nigeria.

He says the things no one had ever said in the history of Nigeria, those truths that had been systematically buried and left to rot away. Nobody speaks about the Biafran war and the genocide so that the war criminals like Yakubu Gowon, IBB, OBJ etc will continue to walk free after committing countless heinous war crimes against humanity. It takes the courage of one courageous man to liberate thousands of courageous men. Through his truth telling courage, he brought his people into light and dissected bit-by-bit the many years of media lies of the Yoruba gutter media. The truths in his lessons include:
1. That our current President raped a 9years old girl when he was 45 (A fact nobody ever knew before then).
2. That Buhari on BBC Hausa Radio said: “an Attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the North.
3. That the Northerners bring nothing to the table of Nigeria.
4. Our leaders – past and present are the real criminals and enemies of Nigeria.
5. That the people of Biafra were never at any time enemies.
6. That Buhari said that Abacha was not corrupt.
7. That Obasanjo said just recently that they would deal with Boko Haram the way they dealt with Biafra.
8. That Britain helped the Hausas to commit genocide of killing over 3million Biafrans while the world look the other way.
9. The list is unending and there is nothing he ever said that was not the truth.
People can only follow the light, not darkness.

CURRENTLY
The arrest of Nnamdi Kanu has continued to cause protest in the Biafra lands. In the normal way of the Nigeria oppression, they are shooting innocent women on a peaceful protest and clamping the protesters into prisons. To what end I ask? Why is the world still looking the other way? Are the Biafrans really part of the world where the Amnesty International and United Nations operate?
The British Government came to West Africa and put a little fire, went back to Britain and whatever that is happening in Nigeria now, Nigerians should go and find the cause.
The only problem now is that the crop of Biafrans leading this campaign is educated to the rightful meaning of the word education. As a result, the outcome of this impending doom will be completely different from the one in 1967, unless the world rises up to its responsibility. Freedom is an alienable right of every indigenous people on earth and Biafrans belongs the earth as well.
Source http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1278124http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1278124

CR77:
Pls no names


I am here to check there names

Dhugal:
MOSES E. OCHONU

My friend, Professor Pius Adesanmi , set the
tone for what I'm about to say in a recent
Facebook update. If you have not read his
update in which he makes a forceful argument
for holding the Buhari administration
accountable for the president's pre-election
promises in the area of security and the effort
against Boko Haram, please go and read it
without delay. It is a prescient and timely
intervention. Adesanmi was writing to bemoan
the continued rampage of Boko Haram in spite
of Buhari's promise to take away their ability
to continue their murderous activities.
Adesanmi's overarching arguments are 1) we
should insist on Buhari fulfilling his promise of
securing the lives and property of citizens
from the menace of Boko Haram, a promise
that the recent wave of bombings vitiate; 2) we
should demand from this administration a
clear articulation of its strategy for ending
Boko Haram; and 3) what we criticized and
refused to accept when Jonathan was president,
we should not accept, rationalize, or fail to
criticize in Buhari's administration.
I want to extend Adesanmi's treatise beyond
the narrow domain of security. I want to
broaden his contention to the entire gamut of
issues and challenges confronting the country.
I am arguing simply that, regardless of the
issue involved, what we didn't tolerate from
Jonathan and roundly criticized in his
administration, we should also not tolerate
from Buhari and should have the courage to
criticize. Here is a list of things we rightly
criticized Jonathan for, but which, for reasons
I cannot fathom, we seem to have ignored or
accepted in Buhari's administration.
1. We pilloried Jonathan's administration for
maintaining a wasteful 12-aircraft presidential
fleet (enough to constitute a modest airline)
despite the deepening hardship and cash
crunch in the country. In response to initial
misinformation from overzealous Buhari
supporters about Buhari's decision to sell off
most of the aircraft, the administration came
out and firmly denied taking such a decision
and has continued to maintain the same
presidential fleet. This inexplicable resolve to
continue with what is universally regarded as a
symbol of executive profligacy is not attracting
any critical attention from otherwise skeptical
citizens. And I don't want to hear the excuse
that Buhari didn't buy the aircraft, that he
inherited them.
2. Staying with the aircraft theme, the new
Customs boss, Col. Hameed Ali, a key Buhari
appointee, travels around to conduct official
business in a cozy private jet, but he is being
praised as a man of action instead of being
criticized with the same vehemence with which
Mrs. Diezani Allison-Maduekwe, former
minister of petroleum, was criticized for doing
the same thing.
3. The economy is reeling from Buhari's
misguided, counterproductive, and
unsustainable policy of defending the naira at
all cost by placing primitive and economically
unsound restrictions on access to foreign
exchange. This currency control has
compounded a curious companion policy of
decreeing bans on certain imports (both raw
materials an finished goods) and wishing that
Nigeria would magically begin producing them
in spite of structural problems like poor
electricity, reliance on imported heavy
machinery, expensive borrowing rates, a
general poverty of infrastructure, and a volatile
policy environment. Our reaction to this
cluelessness has been either to stay silent or to
praise Buhari’s intentions, as though his lofty
intentions outweigh the real damage that this
policy is doing to various sectors of the
economy. The road to hell they say is paved
with good intentions, and we may very well be
headed to a figurative hell with the
pronouncement by the CBN that Nigeria’s
economy will enter recession next year. We
scrutinized all of Jonathan's economic policies,
taking them apart when they did not make
sense. But we seem to have conceded to
Buhari the right to make as many mistakes as
he wants even at the cost of inflicting serious
harm on the economy at a time of low oil
prices and a resulting economic contraction.
It's almost as if we think that the old man
knows best and have suspended our critical
faculties as a result.
4. Several bomb blasts rocked the northeastern
states of Adamawa and Borno in the course of
two days, killing cores of our citizens and
puncturing our already fragile security. It took
the presidency an entire day to acknowledge
the tragedy and offer words of comfort to a
beleaguered and traumatized nation and to the
victims' families. When Jonathan displayed
similar crass indifference to the nihilist
violence of Boko Haram and to the victims of
the carnage, we spared no outrage in
criticizing him and his team. Today, we seem
to have given Buhari's government an open-
ended benefit of the doubt on the same
attitude.
5. When Jonathan failed to articulate a
coherent road map for defeating Boko Haram,
we rightly called him out on the failure.
Buhari has not clued the nation into his grand
strategy for ending the insurgency, if one
exists. Yet we have not demanded that he
communicate clearly with the nation on this.
6. When Jonathan hired some South African
mercenaries to help drive out the insurgents
from Nigerian's towns and villages, many of us
saw that as a humiliating climb down for our
army and our country, a testament to the
failure to equip and motivate the army to fight
at their maximum ability. Then candidate
Buhari criticized Jonathan for surrendering and
violating Nigeria's sovereignty, pride, and
status as a regional power. He said the
Nigerian army was capable, by itself, of
routing the enemy if properly equipped and
motivated. Several days ago, however, we read
news, still undenied, that the administration
has done exactly the same thing that candidate
Buhari angrily condemned. They have quietly
hired South African mercenaries to help
combat Boko Haram and to meet the
December deadline issued by the president. We
are yet to hear any serious critique of this
decision to continue with a previously
criticized Jonathan strategy. For the record, I
don't care how we defeat Boko Haram and do
not mind if it takes South African mercenaries
or Martians to defeat them. I am just pointing
out the double standards of criticizing
Jonathan for engaging the mercenaries and
giving Buhari a pass for doing the same thing--
as well as the hypocrisy of Buhari criticizing
Jonathan for enlisting the help of the
mercenaries only to turn around and do so
himself.
7. When Jonathan travelled to Chad to try to
enlist the help of Idris Deby in combating the
insurgency, he was mocked for being weak and
for groveling before regional minnows. The
cantankerous Nasir el-Rufai even suggested in
a tweet that the former president had gone to
Chad to confer with Deby on how to plan more
attacks, an outrageous nod to the conspiracy
theories circulating in the north about
Jonathan's complicity in, if not sponsorship of,
Boko Haram. Today, Buhari's most discernible
public gesture in the fight against Boko Haram
is his travel around the world and in our
region begging for foreign help and
cooperation. And he seems to have invested all
his strategic permutations in the regional force
headquartered in Chad. He is, in other words,
doing what Jonathan did or tried to do. But the
reaction to his actions has been decidedly and
radically different. While Jonathan was widely
condemned, Buhari is being praised for
courting much needed alliances for defeating
Boko Haram.
8. When Jonathan appointed (and defended)
several people tainted by allegations and
revelations of corruption into his government,
we rightly expressed our disapproval in very
strident language. Today, Buhari has appointed
people plagued by weighty and credible
allegations of corruption into his cabinet and
into key roles in his administration. Instead of
dusting up our anti-Jonathan criticism and
applying it to Buhari, we have now crafted a
new argument for rationalizing this brazen act
of self-contradiction by an anti-corruption
president. We now argue that the appointees
may have been corrupt but that, serving under
Buhari, they will not dare touch government
money. That may be so, given the personal
example of incorruptibility from Buhari, but
that does not invalidate the truth that such
appointments constitute a reward for
corruption — and a bad signal to corrupt
officials. Those who should be answering to
allegations and revelations of corruption will
instead be enjoying the prestige and aura of
high office in an administration purportedly
anchored on an anti-corruption ethos.
This list is not exhaustive. You can add to it.
Obviously contexts change and one must
acknowledge that. Jonathan was criticized
within a wider matrix of issues. Moreover, in
some cases, the contexts in which he took
some of his widely criticized decisions, or
failed to take a decision, were different from
those that prevail today. We must therefore
temper our critique of Buhari’s young
government with that caveat.
We must also give Buhari a grace period for
getting a handle on the many challenges of the
country. Perhaps, our criticism of his
preservation of Jonathan’s many policies and
attitudes would be more justified after he has
spent a year in office and the texture and color
of his presidency have emerged with clarity.
Even so, it is never too early to emplace the
parameters of vigilance and accountability.
Moreover, if we don’t begin to ask tough
questions now and to challenge brazen
disregard for the anxieties and problems of
citizens, Buhari and his team will only take
that as acquiescence and go further down the
familiar and failed path.
The failure to criticize early, to lay down a
marker of citizen skepticism, as well as a
willingness to offer a prolonged period of
grace to a new government are detrimental to
both the said government and citizens. It is
one of the reasons that Jonathan strayed and
was never able to course-correct.
In the wake of the Yar’Adua debacle, Nigerians
were willing to give Jonathan an elastic latitude
of action and inaction. Now, in the wake of
Jonathan’s disastrous government, we seem to
be making the same mistake with Buhari and
setting him up for the tone-deaf indifference
and disconnection that became the defining
signature of the Jonathan administration.
Jonathan did not lose his way overnight. It was
a gradual process aided by a vast, uncritical
army of excuse makers and givers of endless
benefits of the doubt.
We need to stop the rationalization of Buhari’s
lethargic beginnings. The election is over.
Buhari is fully in charge. Forced excuses are
no longer convincing. Body language has an
expiration date and has clearly run its course
while serious problems persist. It is time to
demand concrete actions, plans, and outcomes
from this government.

The author can be reached at meochonu@
gmail.com
http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/moses-ebe-ochonu/different-strokes-for-jonathan-and-buhari.html

iliyande:
Governor Nyesom Wike has described the nullification of his election by the Election Petition Tribunal as a gang up against him and the people of the state arguing that the the judiciary was setting a dangerous precedent in the country with the way it had gone about elections in Rivers state.

Special Adviser to the governor on media and publicity, Mr Opunabo Nko-Tariah in a statement yesterday in Port Harcourt alleged that there had been effort to wrestle power from Governor Wike through the back door, adding that legal steps will be taken to defend the mandates of the people displayed in the April 11 general election.
“What is going on right now can best be described as judicial gang-up against Governor Wike, nay, the people of Rivers State. It is an affront on democracy and a blight disregard for the will of the people as evinced in the April 11 general elections.

“The courts are setting pernicious precedents by hinging their verdicts on inane points. Rivers people overwhelmingly gave their mandate to Governor Wike but a microscopic few want to wrest that mandate from him through the back door”.

Peterside condemns Wike’s attack on the Judiciary

Meanwhile, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the April election, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has condemned the denigration of the judiciary by Governor Nyesom Wike, his agents and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Peterside who spoke in Abuja said the vilification of an important arm of government like the judiciary by desperate politicians portend grave danger for Nigeria and her budding democracy.

He described the disparagement and on-going war against the judiciary by Wike and the PDP as a dangerous example that must be checked quickly because of its calamitous consequences.

“The judiciary is a sacred and respected institution. Therefore, any person or persons who openly criticise judges and their rulings obviously have a sinister motive.

“However, it is gratifying to note that people are beginning to fully appreciate the character and temperament of the people we engaged during the last general elections in Rivers State. They are obviously finding it difficult to live under due process and the rule of law because they are used to impunity and violence, the two evils that were taken to new heights under the last government.

“If service is really the reason for being in politics, then it is tragic that these politicians are conducting themselves in such a spiteful manner. Nobody is above the law and when people openly and brazenly challenge institutions of state like the judiciary, it sends the wrong signal.

“The APC in Rivers State and its candidates took their losses at the various election petitions tribunals with equanimity, knowing full well that a window of opportunity still exists. Even when we felt very dissatisfied with the verdicts, we still did not abuse the judiciary or judges who handled our cases because we know the consequences of such defamatory actions.

“Wike and Rivers PDP are still living in the past but they should be reminded that Nigeria of today is a survivor because she defeated impunity and all the lawlessness of the last administration”.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/nullification-of-election-judicial-gang-up-against-me-wike/

Mogidi:
The dullard is just using our money for sightseeing?

chapatti:
Wonders as they say, will never end. This story will shock you to your bones. Four men have been accused of beheading a 4 years little boy. Whatever be the reason, i believe everyone has a right to life. And no one on have the right to snuff out the life of another. Some days ago, a Magistrate Court situated in Iragbiji, Osun state has ordered that four men be remanded in the Ilesa Prison custody for allegedly killing a four year old boy whose name is Bakare Teslim.

Below are the various names and age of the accused persons. They are 60 year old Ganiyu Abidoye, Taju Ganiyu, aged 25, Aremu Moshood, 48 and Agboola Abdulwasiu, aged 31 were all arrested on Monday, 26th October, 2015 by the Osun state Police.

According to reports, the four accused persons were said to have kidnapped Bakare Teslim on the 9th October, 2015 at about 6.17pm at his village Agbelekale area of Iragbiji in Osun state before he was beheaded with a knife in the closet.

According to the official reports from the police, “that you Taju Ganiyu, Aremu Moshood, Agboola Abdulwasiu and Ganiyu Abidoye on 9th October, 2015 at about 6.17pm at Agbelekale area of Iragbiji in Iragbiji Magisterial District did conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit kidnapping of one Bakare Teslim, aged 4.”
For the complete article, click >>> Police Arrests Four Men Who Beheads 4 Years Old Boy In Iragbiji

Godfullsam:
This guy is among the rear people from the flat heads that make us proud outside the shore of Nigeria.


God bless the flat head republic a.k.a FHR .

Deepfreezer:
One can not help to over look the shabby treatment given to Nigeria's President Buhari as he arrived India and the diplomatic respected that was given to kenyan. take a look at how both presidents where received.

peromosele:
Nigeria president was highly honour compair to his Kenya counterpart.

olokeded:
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Former Head of State Yakubu Gowon paid a visit to Anambra state governor,Willie Obiano at the state government house, Awka.....
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http://www.metronaija.com/2015/10/photos-yakubu-gowon-visits-governor.html

CR77:

I was only interested in his name

CR77:
Chai no be small food Oo, I am only here to check his name

Ballmer:
The waste land of the Igboids

Zikkyfuse:
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The man who identified himself as Olufemi Julius came to popular Mobile phone Market in Akure (Olukayode Shopping Complex) with a riffle this morning with intention of killing someone. When apprehended and interrogated, he seemed to be under the influence of codeine. He told police he didn't know anyone at the complex and couldn't explain how he got the rifle. Thankfully, no one was killed or injured as he was overpowered and handed over to the police. More pics after the below...


http://www.chuzzysblog.com/2015/10/man-under-influence-of-hard-drugs.html

basilo101:
Deji's touts sent to harass igbo phone sellers took overdose

kodded:




yet you crack head still depend on their oyel

pman001:
keep calm mourinho is in chargé...season never start