₦airaland Forum

Ibro Yaya:
And he still went to beg him in Otta. Lol.
Atiku is the biggest mistake, Period!!

ijcurt:
i personally dont care if he's cheating, cos d race we are running is a personal one and we will all give account on d last day,

oyb:
defamation of character - the SSS have announce publicly that they are investigating dokpesi in connection with the bomb blasts. his personal business texts have been circulated

this is enough grounds - sullying of reputation, loss of future revenue due to same,

the SSS should stop thinking they are in nazi germany

nini1:
Thank you, but i thought you don't beleive my story

semid4lyfe:
If Mr Gbenga Olowepo employed an incompetent goon like you as his Nairaland campaign manager, then he has failed already

Ujujoan:
Gold Digger!

[size=14pt]Mbu apologises over comment on Balewa’s death[/size]


One month after his reported comments that Nigeria’s first and only Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa died from an asthmatic attack and not gunshots, former High Commissioner to London, Chief Matthew Mbu, yesterday, tendered an unreserved apology to the Balewa family.

Mbu, who described Sir Balewa as his mentor and political godfather, said in a two-page, eight-paragraph and 740-word letter entitled: “My Apology to the family of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa,” said he was saddened by the controversies that his interview with The Nation Newspaper had generated. He offered and hoped that what he described as his “sincerest apologies” would be accepted by the late Prime Minister’s family.

Apology

The letter read in part: “I am truly saddened that my interview with The Nation Newspaper of August 5, 2010, about Nigeria at 50 and what I said immediately afterwards has generated so much controversy and caused such unnecessary anguish to the family of my mentor and political godfather, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.

I hope Mukhtar Balewa will accept my sincerest apologies on behalf of the family for inadvertently causing so much pain.

The unfortunate reference to the death of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was made to The Nation Newspaper reporter after the completion of a marathon interview about ‘Nigeria at 50.’ “It was not meant to be in any way inflammatory and has obviously been taken completely out of context. As it happened, after the lengthy interview I made the statement that there were numerous facts and rumours about this great nation that I would prefer to take with me to my grave.

However, rather accepting the statement as it is, the reporter proceeded to press me for an example and after several minutes of being cajoled to speak I finally relented and gave him the example of what my friend Chris Okigbo told me about how my political father died.

Statement taken out of context

Anyone who actually read the article in The Nation of August 5, 2010, would have known that the statement must have been taken out of context, as it did not relate to anything discussed in the interview.

“Furthermore, I never for one minute said or even alluded to the fact that I knew exactly how Sir Abubakar died and, besides, at the time of the coup I was en-route to India as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to attend the funeral of late Prime Minister Shastri. In fact, it was only upon landing at Delhi Airport and being met by then Nigerian High Commissioner, Mr. Ade Haastrup that I learned of the coup in Nigeria. I instantly enquired as to the fate of Sir Abubakar, the Prime Minister and the High Commissioner told me that both the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister Chief Okotie Eboh had been kidnapped and their whereabouts were unknown. You can then imagine what my concern was about the sad events in Nigeria.

“Upon my return from India, I met Chris Okigbo and was given his account of the events that took place. As I said to The Nation Newspaper reporter, this was Okigbo’s account. I have never said that what Chris Okigbo told me was the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, neither have I said that I know better than anyone else the circumstances surrounding the painful death of Sir Abubakar.

“It is, therefore extremely unfortunate and heart wrenching that the family of my late mentor should be subjected to such anguish after so many years. Not only is this furthest from my hear and mind but also the continued preponderance of the issue by some parties, presumably in a quest to attract some attention to themselves, has further exacerbated the matter.

No ulterior motive
“Comments such as my having an ulterior motive for mentioning the circumstances of Sir Abubakar’s death and “Mbu, Osoba’s agenda remains unknown” are both careless and slanderous and further confirm the unlikelihood that the comments were made by those who had actually read my full interview published in The Nation Newspaper of August 5, 2010.

Nevertheless, and despite receiving numerous invitations to engage with some of these individuals in a public confrontation over the matter, I chose to remain silent and ignore all provocation and I would have continued to do so until I read the statement from Mukhtar Balewa. His statement made it clearly obvious that things had gone too far and that the articles appearing in the various newspapers were adversely affecting the peace and happiness of the family of Sir Abubakar.

“As such, I felt it necessary to break my silence and make a formal and heartfelt apology to the family of one of Nigeria’s greatest heroes for inadvertently providing the platform for some mischievous individuals to open up old wounds. I can only hope and pray that with this apology I succeed in putting an end to such unwarranted ‘debate’ which at times has often been reduced to baseless mudslinging. I therefore appeal to all the good people of Nigeria to allow this unfortunate issue to rest and spare the family and the nation any further anguish.”

http://www.pointblanknews.com/News/os4027.html

chaircover:
Oam4J You are a clown. Seriously I'm sure you are a fun person to be around. The only juju I need now is the one needed to win the euro millions rollover tonight   

By the way are you taken? I have a girlfriend looking for a fine guy with a sense of humor. I asked Femi but he told me he was taken. Dont know why guys pose so much these days sef   

ifyalways:
@Uju,Belated buffday to you.

Ujujoan:
Thanks dear!

herzy:
THIS STORY IS STRANGE BUT REAL


these couple were rich with the husband working in multinational oil company earning a six figure salary. he insist the wife quit her own telecoms job for her

to keep a close watch on their little kids. later things changed for worse. he lost his job and was later duped all his entitlements and benefits by 419 who

pretended to introduce him to profitable business. now he never thought he is going to be poor at this stage of his life. durring his search for a Greenland a

friend introduced him to a man who was ready to grant him a loan of 20 million naira in order to start life afresh, but the only collateral requested is that the

man in question should always make his wife readily available any time he wants to share a bed with her, isn't that strange? but its real! now the husband

is bent on having his wife sleep with the man because the loan is his last hope of starting a new life and he even threatened her physically and emotionally,

he said if the woman did not give in, it shows she is the enemy of his progress, he even said after all it's just sex. the woman who is still in shock as her previously sweet home has turned sour and

her loving husband has turned monster. what should she do? she loves her husband, she doesn't want to loose her marriage and will not want to share

her body in exchange for money . although they both exchange the usual marriage vows on their wedding day, is this what they call for better for worse? what will you do if you find yourself in this situation?

chaircover:
Automatically Leaving your husband  because he cheated may not be the brightest idea.

There are no black and white answers in situations like this and every relationship is different. I would say sit down for a very long time and think it through & ask yourself and your husband very deep questions before making any hasty decisions.

I learnt a long time ago not to listen to the "how can you accept this brigade" cos not everyone is totally honest about what they themselves are going through in their own homes. A word is enough for the wise.

[size=13pt]Abuja bombings: Senate carpets Northern leaders[/size]

The Senate on Wednesday condemned the reaction of some prominent Northern leaders to the October 1 twin car bombings in Abuja.


The leaders had called on President Goodluck Jonathan to resign because they had lost confidence in his ability to lead the country.


The condemnation by the Senate followed a motion by Senator Anthony Manzo and 36 of his colleagues.


The lawmakers, who contributed to the debate on the motion, also condemned terrorism and urged the Federal Government to arrest and prosecute those behind the blasts that left 14 people dead and 66 others injured on a day Nigeria celebrated its 50 years of sovereignty.


The Northern leaders, under the aegis of the Northern Political Forum, had on Tuesday condemned the bombings, but wondered why they took place shortly after the recent changes in the leadership of the nation’s armed forces, the police and state security service.


They also said that ex-militants, who failed to accept Federal Government’s amnesty programme must not be allowed to hide behind unlawful agitation to take innocent lives.


The senators, who observed a minute silence for the victims of the bombings, said it was “unfortunate and disappointing,” that the “elder statesmen” could make such comments.


They condemned the incident and urged the security agencies to beef up their intelligence gathering machinery to avoid a reccurrence.


Nigerians, especially highly placed individuals, they added, should moderate their comments on the issue and other sensitive matters since the current situation in the country demanded unity among the people.


The senators resolved that the relevant committees of the Senate should monitor the activities of security agencies and return to brief the Senate in a closed door session.


The President of the Senate, Mr. David Mark, who spoke after contributions by his colleagues, said, “I must confess that I was a bit worried that this (Abuja incident) could really degenerate into the way our elder statesmen outside are handling it.


“Let me also express my total disappointment at the comments that are being made by very elderly statesmen, outside the chambers,” he added.


Mark said it was regrettable that the Northern leaders were politicising the blasts at a time that national unity was under threat.


He said, “We’ve lost lives, the nation’s unity is being threatened, and all they have succeeded in doing is to politicise it for their own personal gains and selfishness and I think that is rather unfortunate.


“We respect them as elders statesmen, and I think those comments are totally uncalled for; they are unwarranted. The issue before us is far more serious than the politics that they want to play with the lives of Nigerians and with the unity of this country.


“The fact of the matter is that this is a serious issue. When 9/11 happened in the United States, the whole nation came together and people put their political parties and ideologies aside.


“That is what we should be doing about this particular problem. I also would like to say that we should have at the back of our minds, Chapter 14 of our 1999 Constitution about security and governance.


“I completely endorse the statement of those who subscribed that all those found guilty, both the culprits and the security agents for lapses, must be adequately punished.


“This is not the time for us to go on a sentiment ride and then begin to find reasons why things have gone wrong.”


The President of the Senate added that he had met with the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Security and Intelligence, Senator Nuhu Aliyu, on the need to fast track the passage of the Anti-Terrorism Bill.


“I believe that apart from expediting the passage of the anti-terrorism bill, we will be in a position where we are in the full picture to design a legislative therapy that will ensure that we put this behind us permanently as a people,” he said.


While leading the debate on the motion, the Senate Leader, Mr. Teslim Folarin, had described the blasts as “serious and unprovoked.”


Folarin said that it was embarrassing that “terrorists chose that memorable day (October 1) to carry out twin-car bomb attacks which left (many) people dead and several others injured.’’


Other contributors included Senators James Manager, Mohammed Mana, Kabiru Gaya, and Kanti Bello.


While Mana said that the inability of the security agencies to track the attackers was as a result of the failure of government to adequately equip them, Gaya advised Jonathan to talk less on the issue in order not to polarise and politicise the issue.


On his part, Bello noted that Jonathan’s utterance exonerating the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, was uncalled for.


He said that MEND, which claimed responsibility for the blasts, had a penchant for planting bombs in the country.


But Manager urged that the debates on the motion should not be “prejudicial” since a judicial pronouncement was pending, but Mark clarified that the Senate was competent to discuss the issue.


Speaking after the session , the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Information and Media, Mr. Ayogu Eze, said the Senate would await the outcome of the investigations by the various security agencies before it would come in.


Eze also assured that the National Assembly would not renege on its promise to complete work on the amendment of the 1999 constitution to alter the Electoral Act for the 2011 elections.


http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20101007461146

dayokanu:
Abeg whats all these about Mobila dn Command clem?

[size=13pt]Honour, reward for honest Job[/size]

• MFM rewards undergraduate who returned N9.3 billion mistakenly paid into his account
WHEN Durojaiye Adeyemi Job inserted his Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card into a machine at the First Bank branch of Ibadan Polytechnic, Ibadan, he wanted to withdraw just N2,000.00 and leave a balance of N1,000.00.
By his own calculations, he had only N3,000.00 credit balance in the account.
He was, therefore, understandably confused when after collecting the N2,000.00, he glanced at the   transaction slip and saw he had a mind-boggling credit of N9.3 billion.
Job, a campus fellowship member of Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries and a part-three student of Ibadan Polytechnic, did not have a second thought as to what to do.
On the next available opportunity, he reported the matter to First Bank that so much money had been paid into his account in error.
Honour and recognition on Saturday came Job’s way when the General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, presented the young man with a car and an undisclosed sum of money.
The General Overseer also assured him of a job immediately he completed his course.
Narrating the story, Job said he was on his way home from school on Friday on August 13, when he decided to withdraw N2,000.00 through his ATM card from his account.
“I had N3,000.00 in my account and I decided to withdraw N2,000 out of it for the weekend.
“After withdrawing the money, the receipt printed a whooping balance of N9.3 billion.
“I was shocked and decided to withdraw more than what I knew was in my account to see whether what I was seeing was real.
“ I inserted the card again and punched N20,000.00 and the ATM machine brought out the money and printed a receipt of the balance of N9.3 billion.
“I then decided to go back to the hostel and keep the money to avoid the temptation of spending it since it was late on Friday and the bank would not open till Monday.
“The following week, I rushed to the bank and narrated my experience to the bank manager. She was shocked and said it must have been a mistake from the bank headquarters in Lagos.
“She asked me what I wanted to do. I told her that I would return the money, saying: “It does not belong to me”. She gave me a teller, which I filled and paid back the N20,000 into my account.
“The N9.3 billion was later moved from my account without any record of such transaction left in my account.
Job said he was surprised that the bank had not contacted him since after he refunded the money.
Commending 30-year-old Job, Dr. Olukoya said he has not only demonstrated what the Bible dictates, but has also lived up to what the ministry stands for in terms of honesty and integrity.
The cleric said Job was the type of Nigerian that should be rewarded to encourage others.
Said he: “The ministry did not reward Job because he is a member of the church but for his ability to overcome such a big temptation.
“ This is the type of virtue that can move the society forward, bearing in mind that Job did not come from a very wealthy family but has demonstrated that the God, he serves, is a rich father.”
Olukoya called on Nigerians to eschew the inordinate crave to amass wealth at all costs and to imbibe the spirit of contentment, instead.

jennykadry:
OAM4Jenny make devil blast ya nyash who and who dey reach 100yrs? The last time I CHECKED i JUST DO MY 20th byday so who dash me 100? bb is the one nearly approaching 87 although she say make i no tok but i gat to now wey person wan call me old.

stillwater:
For where?? It takes more than fine face for me to go crazy o. Van Vicker makes me laugh instead, my heart doesn't somersault and tumble when I see him.

Mobinga:
Stop doing that to every girl on the forum 

jennykadry:
@MUKINA

If na play stop am oooo I and OAM4Jenny go a long way back, no be today we begin practice adultery fornication.

We would like to state, for the umpteenth time, that President Goodluck Jonathan's desperation to be President again in 2011 can only take Nigeria back to the dark days of President Olusegun Obasanjo's Third Term with all its attendant instability and the wasting of innocent civilians’ lives. Now that the President has proven that he is incapable of leading the nation justly and fairly and that he is desperate enough to want to hang mass murder around the neck of unnamed Northerners to achieve his second term, we as citizens of this country have totally lost confidence in his leadership and hereby call on him to immediately resign. If he fails to do so by the end of the week, we call on the National Assembly to commence impeachment proceedings against him with immediate effect. We state, without any equivocation that, as Northerners and as citizens of this country, we no longer feel safe and secure under his leadership.