₦airaland Forum

OKDnigeria:
It is a shame Buhari has proven to all that it was late Tunde Idiagbon of esteemed memory that was to be credited with all the successes of his 80s stint. Buhari has unwritten his legacy. 2019 soon cometh.

Sad...

But to whom shall Nigeria go to in 2019?

NOETHNICITY:
I m a Muslim but not a northerner and I do not hate the shittes
Although I do not believe in some of their doctrines but I pray along with them whenever I'm opportuned.

Yeah but I meant, why do northern hausa/fulani Muslims hate and disregard the Shiites so much?

Milf

InfiniteLoopx:
Your eyes don open. Please, use your intellect to support restructuring or possibly disintegration. We are not one with these people.

Sorry there was never a time when my eyes were closed; my narrative has never changed.

amnesty7:
These are the kinds of policies of live and let live that are needed. Much as we condemn all these violence, the governor of Benue State was very immature in handling the whole issue. Banning an unforgiving set of people unilaterally, without exhaustive consultation outside the state or thought about possible consequences was the immediate cause of the violence. Matured minds like David Mark would never be that careless.

Nonsense! Absolute nonsense! The fulani marauders already killed thousands upon thousands ever before the banning of open grazing; now the devils are back to do their known stock in trade and you claim it's because of grazing ban?.... Kindly enlighten me on what is different between the killings pre-grazing ban and the killings now?

I have a piece of land on which I allowed you to graze your flock. You take advantage of my welcoming gesture and harm my family members and destroy my properties. I get fed up and then expel you from my land. What exactly is wrong in that?... Do I no longer have ownership or authority over what I can use my own land for?

The boldness though... and Benue elders are still 'WAITING' for govt before they form a state's vigilante group and flush the marauders out of their lands. Kontinuu waiting Pa Unongo, kontinuu waiting Pa Ortom!

These guys arent serious yet, they're still 'thinking', still giving conditions and still waiting for central govt when they should already be doing something.

There goes Nigeria's power supply...

DMathematical:
What you described is a reactive public relations strategy. It is not to be applied everytime. The media aides of the President are doing a very poor job in communicating his intentions if any.

Absolutely, the media aides are as clueless as they can be and have no business being in publicity. Even on twitter and nairaland etc, I've seen a lot of more sensible ordinary citizens who are 100 times better at govt publicity than the so called presidential aides.

Campusity:
Is Sagay not admitting the failure of the Federal Government under his idol PMB? The man who is in control of the military, the police, the SSS? Who does Ortum control? The boys the army arrested yesterday?

Sagay receive sense!

Those boys arrested by the army, if Ortom is a real leader, do you think he cant secure their release in less than 24 hours?

Wiseandtrue:
I hope all Nigerians can read this


Sagay welcome back! Thank you for resigning your post under Federal GOVERNMENT!

You are back to your normal self. Respect!

Sagay hasnt resigned from anywhere... Sounding the truth into the ears of Ortom doesnt mean he has resigned. If Fayose whose state is hardly affected by herdsmen crisis can set up a vigilante, what on earth stops Ortom from doing so and expelling all the fulanis in his state?... What kind of dirty eye sevice is he playing ehile his people are being killed everyday?... Why does he need to run to the FG fot help ehrn he can actually use his security vote to set up and arm a pseudo state police?

DearPeople:
Dear People,

Can you all see the dummies we have as leaders? Can we all see that Buhari is nothing but a plague to Nigeria and Nigerians?

Can you all see that these people would rather continue to give these herdsmen rooms to kill by blaming Jonathan? I am very sure Jonathan is responsible for the accident Yusuf had. In short, he bought him the power bike just so he can kill himself

There's a very simple and commonsensical reason why the current govt always makes comparisons with Jonathan; and it's because the loudest critics of the govt almost ALWAYS criticise by unconsciously relating every issue with GEJ amd 2015 elections.

If terrorist herdsmen equally killed so many under GEJ, let's be honest here, what do you expect the current govt to respond when its loudest critics always allege that herdsmen are killing today cos a fulani man is president?

Not exactly a statement tjat should be made by a govt official at this sensitive time though...

Why exactly do most typical northern Muslims hate their own Shiite brothers so much?... I may be wrong but I've never heard of the Shiites cause any major trouble.

praizblog:
Pretty Lady And Her Dad Recreate Throwback photo of 23yrs ago As She celebrates her birthday.

This pretty Lady is celebrating her 23yrs birthday and His Dad shared this throwback photo and they Recreate it.

When she was young vs when she’s now old. Dad can’t carry her again….. Lol.
See some of her photos below

Source :: http://www.praizeupdates.com/pretty-lady-and-her-dad-recreate-throwback-photo-of-23yrs-ago-as-she-celebrates-her-birthday/

23 years ago and the lady is celebrating 23?

https://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/022/827/C-OGsGjVoAALrsj.jpg

omenkaLives:
What manner of nonsense is this?

Must everything be made public?

How about pictures of them smashing?

Smh.

Some bloggers recently released divorce rumours, I guess that's why she's had to release this.

erico2k2:
Amaechi started this share matter just as Ibori started the Oil derivative %. But loads of people here do not know the money was shared, and refuse to ask their own state govt what they did with their own share.@ 52% for FG, where did you get that from?? GEJ built power stations and we did not see any power improvement OK cool, so now do we have improvement? from what power stations? cos from last I checked, PMB has not built any power stations so far.

Sorry maybe I got the 52% figure wrong, can you kindly remind me what the correct FG's cut is in the revenue formula?...

Regarding power, the thread talks about huge sums of money being owed road contractors, it also talks about the bulk of the debt being inherited from the previous administration. Someone raised a question asking what all the large sums of money spent by the last admin was spent on seeing that most contractors were still being owed. Another person responded that a chunk of the money was spent building power stations. It was at that point I came in and mentioned that over $8B was spent by the last admin on power specifically, in addition to the $16B spent by OBJ, yet Nigeria still hasnt seen any considerable improvement in power supply. I dont remember mentioning anywhere that power has now improved.

SalamRushdie:
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I hope you are aware that GEJ built more power plants thatn all our past leaders combined #fact

Lol.. Smh... another unsubstantiatable fable from the stables of the jonathanian ogogoro parlour bureau for statistics. In actual fact, Jonathan also built the 4 existing refineries in Nigeria; and lest I forget, Jonathan also built Murtala Mohammed International Airport.

SalamRushdie:
He built rail lines , power plants ,Paid subsidy which we refused him to remove, fought boko haram which northen leaders refused to condemn and Ameachi and co went to court to share the rest

The rail was built with a loan (which Nigeria is still paying for today), over $8billion was spent in the power sector (but Nigerians didnt see any power improvement), the chunk used for bokoharam war was looted by evil men in the corridors of power (we seem to have forgotten how soldiers kept lamenting of lack of common bullets), 36 state governors (not Amaechi) asked GEJ to release the share of ECA belonging to states cos GEJ was clandestinely dipping his hands into the funds for God knows what; at the end, FG still retained almost 52% of the ECA funds which it eventually still blasted on ghost projects, so that your Amaechi excuse is pointless.

So then, what exactly was all the money used for? Okay sorry I forgot to mention, Nigeria became the private jet sales capital of the world in 2013/2014 (even the president at the time bragged about the exploding number of PJs in Nigeria).

Groovenaija360:
After the death of Rivers Notorious Kidnapper/Cultist Don Wanny, his Multi million Naira mansion has been destroyed.

>>> https://groovenaija360.com.ng/notorious-cultist-don-wannys-multi-million-naira-mansion-demolished-photos/

Nigerians are just obsessed with destruction destruction and destruction!

There are numerous things that edifice could have been used for after being possessed by the government; but all we know how to do in this part of the world is destroy wealth.

Take it EAZI dearie..

https://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/022/827/C-OGsGjVoAALrsj.jpg

Straight to mgbuka..

Freeze should be careful not to overstep boundaries into irrelevant territories. There's a thin line between being an objective critic and a hater who just feels a compulsion to criticise everything. I see nothing wrong with religious organisations selling religious literature (for profit) if they so wish. Besides, the sale of some of these materials is actually the main income earner of the authors besides any gifts they receive from their followers.

All these strange masqueredes sef...
www.nairaland.com/attachments/2583180_ngige_jpeg988307aad2d9fc33fd1a27ad12b0701e

LordAdam16:
How is it inconsequential?

If Buhari had done it, would you term it inconsequential?

Give Yar'Adua his dues. He nipped a disaster in the bud. Unfortunately, his hands were tied when it came to the NIPP. I'm certain he would have axed OBJ's flawed plan, and we wouldn't have had to spend $20+b to generate 2500MW.

What you termed inconsequential could have been abhorrently costly if Yar'Adua wasn't diligent.

It's like saying if Buhari did due diligence on GEJ's ATA and found it to be shambolic, trashes it, then setup a workable plan. Then what Buhari did would be inconsequential.

I don't know why you like to sound ret*rded.

-Lord

Look mister, I promised myself not to ever bother engaging you on this forum anymore cos I realised you are nothing but a troll.

So kindly carry on; you win, I lose, OBJ didnt initiate the railway modernisation masterplan, and he never negotiated any deal with the Exim Bank, Yaradua initiated it all... Bye!

LordAdam16:
The contracts OBJ signed was not the contract used for the actual project. OBJ's contract was trashed by Yar'Adua. Yar'Adua worked out another contract from the ground up. Read the article again.

-Lord

OBJ originated the project, brought in the chinese and negotiated the loan deal with the Chinese EXIM bank for the Lagos to Kano standard gauge rail line of which the Abuja to Kaduna stretch is just a part if it. Whether the contract was reversed or revamped or revived or redrawn, that's inconsequential and doesnt in any way change the story.

Facts of the matter:
1. OBJ conceived the idea and signed the loan contracts.

2. GEJ paid the counterpart funds and the Chinese came in and executed the project. So in summary, going by Nigeria's political logic, GEJ is simply the one who built the Abuja to Kaduna rail.

3. PMB paid off the final compensation sums and other miscellaneous sums and commisioned the project.

It is worthy of note however that with Nigeria only providing only about 47% of the total project cost at the time, PMB and other successive administrations are still the ones paying off the 53% loan chunk for the project. However, if PMB wants any of the praise (according to Nigerian political logic), then his government should try and expedite the Lagos - Ibadan track which he started.

enilove:
I think majority ( 85%) of those who call themselves Christians are not diff from other unbelievers.

I wonder how on earth they gave the child of the devil an audience in the first place.
How can such a person just wake and starts to tell us that tithing is wrong.

He is working for the devil to pull down the church of God, nothing more.

Is tithing all what the church of God is about to you?

The wise man listens to everything, but is selective of what he chooses to believe; the wise man doesnt throw the baby and the bath water away.

yanshDoctor:
i want to expose the government lies and deceit. let do the simple arithmetic together.

1 Metric tonnes is equivalent to 1000kg

now let divide the 1000kg with 50kg, that's a bag of rice.

1000 ÷ 50 = 20.

we are talking about 20 bags of rice here as one metric tonnes.

the government claimed to have produce 15,000,000 metric tonnes for 2017.

15,000,000 × 20 = 300,000,000

that's about 300 million bags of rice.

@Op, standing back and looking at those figures, i.e. 300 million bags of 50kg rice, it sounds absolutely incredulous. At first I thought to myself, 'there must be another way in which this should be calculated; it cant just be so straightforward cos 300million bags makes no sense'. But upon some google searches, I realised it was said even years ago that Nigeria's yearly consumption is about 6.1 million metric tonnes.
http://sunnewsonline.com/nigeriall-meet-6-1m-tonnes-rice-demand-this-year-cbn/

Hmmm.. that number sounds incredulous too. 6.1 million metric tonnes means 122 million bags of rice; that is to say a single Nigerian consumes more than half a bag per year?

Anyway, I bumped into another report which sort of confirms your calculations; 100 million bags.

‘Nigeria consumes 100m 50kg bags of rice’
http://thenationonlineng.net/nigeria-consumes-100m-50kg-bags-of-rice/

This sounds totally incredulous, but in the absence of further statistics, do we have a choice but to just take in these figures as they are?... By the way, these figures are from both the CBN, the world bank, the former government and the current government; if all these people/institutions agree on the figures, I dont think I know better.

With the explosion of rice production lately, I dont think it's impossible for Nigeria's rice production to have well exceeded its local consumption demand of 100million bags. But just like some persons have mentioned on this thread, a lot of farmers still prefer to export their rice as they make more profits from export than local sales. That must explain why the local rice hasn't flooded the markets. Also, importers still smuggle in foreign rice cos imported rice gives them more profit, and many Nigerians still demand the foreign rice.

cc: omonnakoda

babadoo:
THE TIMELINE OF MARAUDING HERDSMEN TERRORISTS ATTACKS ON BENUE STATE FROM 2013 – 2018

1. February 2013 Fulani Attacked Agatu burning Inoli, Ologba, olegeje, olegogboche, olegede, Adana, Inminy and Abugbe communities. Many lives lost.

2. April 23 2013.
10 farmers killed in an attack on Mbasenge community in Guma LGA by suspected herdsmen.

3. May 7, 2013.
47 mourners gunned down in Agatu while burying two policemen killed the Tuesday before in Nassarawa.

4. May 14, 2013.
Over 200 herdsmen surround Ekwo-Okpanchenyi, Agatu LGA killing 40 locals.

5. July 5, 2013.
20 people were killed in a “conflict” between Tiv farmers & herdsmen at Nzorov,Guma LGA, Benue state.

6. July 31 2013
herdsmen invade 2 villages in Agatu LGA killing 8 villagers allegedly in retaliation for the killing of 112 cows

7. November 7, 2013.
Attackers strike at Ikpele & Okpopolo communities killing 7 and displacing over 6000 inhabitants.

8. Nov 9, 2013.
36 locals killed and 7 villages overrun in an attack by herdsmen on locals in Agatu LGA.

9. Nov 20, 2013.
Attack on communities in Guma LGA, killing 22 locals and destroying properties worth millions of naira.

10. Jan 20 2014.
Gunmen attack Agatu LGA, killing 5 soldiers and 7 civilians.

11. Jan 20, 2014.
Attack on Adeke village. 3 dead.

12. 20-21 Feb 2014.
Herdsmen attack Gwer West LGA. 35 persons killed. 80,000 displaced. 6 Council Wards Sacked.

13. Feb 24, 2014.
Attack on a Tiv community along Naka road, Makurdi, killing 8 people.

14. March 6, 2014.
30 killed in Kwande, Katsina/Ala and Logo LGAs by attackers dressed in military uniforms. 6 villages sacked.

15. March 12, 2014.
Raid on Ukpam village of Mbabaai in Guma LGA. 28 persons killed. Yam barns and farms burnt.

16. March 10, 2014.
Former Governor Suswam’s convoy attacked by herdsmen at Umenger. He and convoy manage an escape.

17. March 12, 2014.
Herdsmen attack Suswam’s village in Logo LGA. 22 slaughtered. Entire village sacked.

18. March 23, 2014.
25 killed and over 50 injured by herdsmen said to be bearing sophisticated weapons in Gbajimba, Guma LGA.

19. March 25, 2014.
Police recover 7 corpses following an attack on Agena village by Herdsmen.

20. March 29, 2014.
Herdsmen attack 4 villages in Agatu LGA. 19 people killed, 15 others abducted.

21. March 29, 2014.
Suspected use of chemical weapons on Sengev community in Gwer West LGA leaving 15 people dead.

22. March 30, 2014.
19 locals killed and 15 abducted in Agatu LGA.

23. April 10, 2014.
Over 100 herdsmen attacked 4 villages in Ukemberaga/Tswarev ward of Logo LG, 6 killed,Properties lost.

24. April 15, 2014.
Attack on Obagaji, Headquarters of Agatu LGA, 12 youths killed.

25. September 10, 2014.
Herdsmen attacked five villages in Ogbadibo LGA leaving scores dead.

26. January 27, 2015.
17 persons killed in attacks on Abugbe, Okoklo, Ogwule & Ocholoyan in Agatu LGA by herdsmen.

27. January 30, 2015.
Over 100 attackers stormed 5 villages in Logo LGA, killing 9 persons in the attack.

28. March 15, 2015.
Egba village in Agatu LGA sacked by herdsmen,over 90 locals, including women and children killed.

29. April 27, 2015.
28 persons killed by herdsmen in attack on 3 villages at Mbadwem, Guma LGA; houses and farmlands razed.

30. May 11, 2015.
Ikyoawen community in Turan Kwande LGA invaded by herdsmen. 5 persons killed & 8 others wounded.

31. May 24, 2015.
100 killed in an attack by herdsmen in villages &refugee camps at Ukura, Gafa, Per and Tse-Gusa, Logo LGA.

32. July 7, 2015.
1 local killed and several others injured following an attack on mourners in Imande Bebeshi in Kwande LGA.

33. November 5, 2015.
12 persons killed, 25 others injured in Buruku LGA following an attack by suspected herdsmen.

34. Feb 8, 2016.
10 killed and over 300 displaced in clash between herdsmen and farmers at Tor-Anyiin and Tor-Ataan in Buruku LGA.

35. Feb 21-24, 2016.
Over 500 locals killed and 7000 displaced in an attack on Agatu LGA by fulani herdsmen. Over 7 villages razed.

36. March 9, 2016.
8 residents killed by herdsmen in attacks on Ngorukgan, Tse Chia, Deghkia and Nhumbe in Logo LGA.

37. March 11, 2016.
Attack on Convoy of Senator David Mark by suspected herdsmen in Agatu LGA. No casualty recorded.

38. March 13, 2016.
6 people including an APC youth leader killed by herdsmen in an attack on Tarkaa LGA.

39. February 29, 2016
11 killed in Edugbeho Agatu LG including a police inspector.

40. March 10, 2016
Two killed in attack on Obagaji Agatu.

41. March 5, 2016
Houses burnt in Agatu. Security forces prevented killings.

42. January 24, 2017:
15 persons were killed by rampaging Fulani herdsmen, who attacked farmers in Ipiga village in Ohimini Local Government Area of Benue State.
43. March 2, 2017: No fewer than 10 persons were killed in a renewed hostility between herdsmen and farmers in Mbahimin community, Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue State.

44. March 11, 2017: Seven people were killed when herdsmen attacked a Tiv community, Mkgovur village in Buruku local government area of Benue State.

45. May 8: Three persons were confirmed killed by herdsmen in Tse-Akaa village, Ugondo Mbamar District of Logo Local Government Area of Benue State.

46. May 13, 2017: Less than one week after many people were killed by herdsmen in three communities of Logo Local Government Area of Benue State, armed herders struck again on May 13 killing eight more people.

47. December 31, 2017 and January 2, 2018: 50 persons including seven members of the Benue State Livestock Guards have been killed in fresh attacks on Benue communities by suspected Fulani herdsmen after they invaded Gaambe-Tiev, Ayilamo and Turan all in Logo LGA as well as Umenger, Tse-Akor and Tomatar near Tse-Abi in Nongov District of Guma LGA.

Source: https://punchng.com/herdsmen-kill-20-burn-houses-in-fresh-benue-attacks/

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/herdsmen-attacks-another-boko-haram-senate/

Source: http://ipnnews.info/timeline-attack-benue-state-2013-2016/

"I have no pity for the fools in Benue who chose a known terrorist over a gentle leader in 2015."

The above statement was made by a certain slowpoke on this forum. Sadly, we have a multitude of similar idiots on this forum who out of their inability to outgrow their 2015 election loss trauma, have turned themselves into despicable social misfits. They sit in caves and are totally ignorant of the fact that Fulani militias ever existed before 2015. According to their manifold wisdom, everything is about 2015 elections and everything must be linked to 2015 elections no matter how foolish it may seem.

Damian077:
That car is golf 3 wagon not SUV.
RIP to the deceased and quick recovery to the wounded, while praying that God give the bereaved the fortitude to bear the loss.

Lol..

BankeSmalls:
The bad roads of Rochas okorocha nearly claimed another life.

This man deserves a statue for surviving the accident

Going by your logic, Rochas actually deserves a statue himself for the smoothness of the road in that picture.

cstr1001:
How is the Hredsmen issue not political?
If it is not political, then what is it?

You see a massive escalation of attacks with little federal attention , and you say it is not political? Are you blind or just a conscienceless sycophant?

How are you going to solve it if not through political means.?

Lai muhammed said IPOB is more dangerous than fulani herdsmen, and your say it is not political.?

I pity the ignorant folks on this forum who takes you people at face value. Thank God your types are not the only people in Nigeria.

Herdsmen vs farming community clashes, Ijaw vs Itsekiri, Tiv vs Jukun, Ife vs Modakeke, Aguleri vs Umuleri battles etc. All the battles listed were political, with warring factions contesting for one thing or the other (usually land, or a market etc). But there's a clear difference between something being 'political' and when some set of people are desperately trying to 'politicise' it. When I say 'politicise' in this context, I mean trying to twist the story to fall within their myopic APC vs PDP narrative.

Like I mentioned earlier, the herdsmen crisis did not start in 2015, it only started getting more media coverage then because boko haram attacks which overshadowed it before had dwindled, it was getting worse (seeing that it wasn't treated) and thirdly, people saw a good opportunity to play politics with it as the new president was fulani.

https://iiardpub.org/get/JPSLR/VOL.%202%20NO.%201%202016/FULANI%20HERDSMEN.pdf
The paper above talks about how fulani herdsmen attacks had claimed up to 3000 lives between 2010 and 2014, and not only was this never tackled by the government, it wasn't even reported at all by the media and the people of the middle belt suffered it all alone.

Now this brings us back to my original comment on the 'politicisation of herdsmen attacks'. The person I responded to clearly and ignorantly labelled the people of Benue as 'fools' for voting Buhari (instead of GEJ) in 2015; he also alleged blindly that that led to the upsurge of herdsmen attacks. Now if it is established that the herdsmen crisis existed and wasn't tackled by government before 2015, does it make any sense calling the people 'fools' for voting out the government that didnt do anything to secure their lives?... Does it still make any sense tying herdsmen issue to 2015 election?... Hopefully you now get a clearer picture on what I meant by 'politicisation'