₦airaland Forum

efisher:
Journalism 101: Don't read just the headlines.

Take time to read the whole artilce before making comments on a subject. GEJ is not ordering that prizes be crashed below economically possible levels. He is only making a move to curb the excesses of irresponsible stakeholders in the value chain (marketers, transporters, NNPC etc) who have been profiteering from the artificial prize increase. He has succeeded in passing the batton to those who are responsible for regulating product prizes. Some have made comments to suggest that he is making a dumb move. Read again and check who is really dumb.

What is the cause of the price increase?

The minister blamed the scarcity and high cost of the commodity on marketers, who are profiteering from the situation at the expense of the people, but added government will not fold its arms while innocent Nigerians suffered unduly.

“Our investigation shows that kerosene has however become scarce and selling at high price due to distribution problems caused by middlemen who have made it their vocation to profiteer from the product.”

And what is GEJ's government solution?

As a way out, the Minister charged the Managements of the NNPC and the DPR to bring to an end the ugly situation within the next few days.

Yeah, very Smart solution indeed!

hehehehe . >>>>> Jokes section pls

Pornodude:
If you are a Nigerian living in Nigeria, you would know that the only way to get things done is through the language of force n not constructive dialogue. Goodluck Jonathan is only applying this principle n i support him.

Prices only respond to the principle of 'demand and supply' and not to language of force.

GODSON2009:
this ooni of ife is one of the most useless obas ever,to re write history this blantantly for his own personal ego trip and just because he is wealthier than the allafin of oyo.
he is not only stopping at that now he is trying to tacticaly undercut the power base of the alaafin by encouraging junior obas to disrespect him,as it is now he has soiled his hands with the filthy lucre of pdp contracts and oil blocks now he doesnt command much respect with the present governor and people in his own state yet he has the mouth to cause confusing in a different state.
what is wrong with these useless old people?? as one of the custodians of yoruba history,he is holding that throne and the history attached to it in trust for the yorubas gence it behoves him to keep his big mouth shut and appear dignified, the british royal family are not looked up to all around the world just because of money but the queen and the rest will never make any controversial comment in public.even during the testing times of diana she never publicly made any controversial comments this oni of a man should learn from them as old as he is

Dont confuse the ones sitting on those thrones with the thrones.

We are talking about the throne of Oduduwa in Ile ife, that throne is higher than the throne of Alafin of Oyo irrespective of whoever is sitting on both thrones.

No matter how you guys explain/interpret history, fact remains that Oyo throne like many other Yoruba thrones came from Ife and not the other way round.

SegzyJoe:
@Dede1
Am quite impress by your knowledge of Yoruba History, am just wondering how kasumoto will be making a wide guess about events of a recorded Yoruba history. An history that is not a 1000 yrs old. It only shows that there are many Ooni apologists who think they can change history by mere wishful thinking, when all available books rarely mention Ooni as among the royal house of Yorubaland.

To buttress what you said earlier on about Awolowo AG, infact it was Awolowo and AG government that dethrone the father of this current Aalafin and drove him to exile where he died. This current Aalafin was schooling in London when he was recalled by the Oyo Messi to be coronated after much struggle with AG govt.

That is why Aalafin never supported any Awolowo inclined political party, it was also the same reason why when Aalafin made MKO Aare Ona Kakanfo Ooni went to court but he lost, in short Ooni was among the people that mastermind the destruction of June 12 mandate, where were these apologists when Students of Ife were waylaying Ooni while coming from his double dealing mission to the military government in Abuja those days of the June 12 struggle, at a time he had to run to Lagos.

The truth is hard to be told, in royalty, power and majesty as far as Yoruba race is concerned, Aalafin is supreme and Ooni is not even among the royal houses of Yoruba race, Ooni was not even a first class Oba in Yoruba land, Ooni is a political creation of the AG government, and it has ever been sustained by political patronage. Ooni title is a creation from the begining to fill a vacum.

I challenge any one to tell me the name of the seven sons of Okanbi the son of Oduduwa that became the Ooni of Ife. We know of Oranmiyan as Aalafin, Alaketu of Ketu, Orangun of Ila, of Onipopop, of Onisabe etc, who among these great sons of Okanbi was the father of Ooni, untill Kasumoto and his Ooni apologists could tell me without guess work the father of Ooni among these sons, then, I will think Ooni deserve a respect, but certainly not in the class of Aalafin. The current Aalafin and his dynasty has tradition and estbalished institutions for ages, that is why it is difficult for him to be buying political patronage for recognition, it is not in the tradition of Aalafin, it is only Ooni that need recognition, all Yoruba race knows Aalafin is supreme, infact the title itself was born out of the fact that Aalafin was the only palace of repute in Yorubaland, it was the only institution that was ascribed that title.

You dont give up, do you?

Was there an Oyo empire when Awolowo and AG "dethroned" the then Alafin? Was the former Alafin called Alafin of Yorubaland or was there any Alafin of Yorubaland for that matter? or was it Awolowo that fell The powerful Oyo empire?

This is not about Awolowo or AG interference. We are talking about facts from our history, which remains that; Alafin is just one of the grand sons of Oduduwa, who founded Oyo. Oyo later became powerful and and overuled many other Yoruba lands. But never was the whole Yorubaland under the rule of Alafin, and even if they were at a time, they later fought for their independence and got it and Oyo empire fell. So how did Alafin become the Alafin of Yorubaland, was Alafin the founder of all Yorubaland from inception till date?

Seun:
This is all just PR; he's just being more competent press-savvy politician.
We all know presidential orders are not the way to get sustainable change.

What PR? to which people? does this make him look smart or dumb?

He needs to fire some of his advisers asap.

Interesting. Sai Jonathan!

Funny thing is that she was born into a community that welcomed, appreciated and idolized her.

If na naija, her family would have died of shame.

We really dont have the full story, but i wish her a speedy recovery.

this one is a serious mata, my tots and prayers are with you.

smh. what a pity!

That nonsensitive would never happen with my mum, not even now that she is old.

Amen. Go and sin/misbehave no more.

long overdue.

interesting development, let's see out it plays out.

interesting.

They are celebrities now, everything they do is news including the number of times they visit toilets, if such record exists 

Question: How can i become a world wide celebrity?


Am not doing badly, thanks. And you?

byns:
yeah right!!!
you people just dont care

byns, you still not getting the message, we will like to be your friends, but up till now you are yet to wish my lady happy birthday. I take serious offense to that.

So be nice, do the right thing and you will have the best of our services. ok?

lol

People marry for different reasons. If the marriage worths the reason and both parties are in the know of the motives, then i'll say go ahead and good luck.

smh!  

Amen.

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OP.

You need to "settle" Nairaland kingmakers. How much do you have? I can help you "settle" them.

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I'll be back later.

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