₦airaland Forum

resurgent2019:
May God bless Adekemi Adeosun. She served her nation diligently in the face of persecution by the usual hateful suspects.

Now let’s wait for her replacement.

Tribalism have eaten deep into you, that is why you Yorubas should support division of Nigeria so that every tribe will govern their-selves, if the finance minister is not a Yoruba woman, will you be supporting and singing her praises.

Dudeweedlmao:
In a country where the law doesn't apply to those at the top, I really have to commend her for this action. What I still don't understand is; Of what use is NYSC certificate? Is it more important than a Bachelors Degree or a Masters Degree? Do they teach you about Finance or Engineering or Business admin while you're in the camp? I've never been to camp and will never in my life serve this country but from what I've heard, most people just go there to have sex. So how does not having sex for 1 year make your other schooling certificates invalid?

You are not a patriotic citizen, there is what we call a rule of law which must be obeyed.

If this woman was an Igbo woman will you say the same thing, stop being a hypocrite.

It is surprising that Yorubas are backing this woman to remain in office, if she was from another tribe will they be doing so , they also back Buhari because of Osinbajo with hope of taking over in case if Buhari die, it is a shame how some people is always supporting Buhari despite the fact that Buhari is always lying down in London hospital.

Biafra is Free, God bless the land of the rising sun

May souls of our dead heroes rest in perfect peace, those who kill them and those who supported their killings, may they never no peace in their life until they die a miserable death. Amen.

topeayan:
People can be funny so you want Buhari to put the Person that he has no trust in him to head country most secretive Agency. LoLS

But he bring back a long time retired one to come back and head DSS, who is deceiving who.

meolaniyi:
mention one Oba in Lagos that is not a Muslim in Lagos State. Lagos is a muslim state. Its the visitors that make up the christian population

We Yoruba muslims must take Lagos, it belong us.

Naajjii:
You got to make yourself attractive to Nigerians first to be voted for. You can't force people to vote for who they are not comfortable with. You got to play your game well .The truth is if a candidate is mentioned and he is an igbo other Nigerians always react in certain way, like ( Na Ibo Man oh) i dont know why this is so. Do you have idea the negative perception IPod situation caused you. Look at Morghalu why can't all igbo come together and work for his success instead trying to force others in 2023 when there is a chance in 2019.Now we have Northern candidate in APC and it's likely another northerner in PDP with the huge population of ibo they decided to go for Morghalu or any suitable igbo canadidate is that not an effort that is capable of creating an upset?

The best thing for other Nigerians is support Biafra nation for Igbos, continuous deliberate keeping the Igbos out of power will spell doom for Nigeria, things will continue to be worst in Nigeria if Igbos don't have sense of belonging in Nigeria. They already have a Radio broadcasting to the whole world, the number of Igbos in large number all over the world will sabotage Nigeria interest.

raumdeuter:
Why should reparation be done to Ibos? what happened to them that is being repaired?

For Yorubas to have that type of mouth, they have been the nearest challenger multiple times. In 1979 and 1983, Awolowo came 2nd to Shagari
In 1992 Falae challenged Yar Audua
In 1993 MKO challeneged Tofa


But you are waiting somewhere for some reparation. Siddon there dey wait. You think all the SW and SS wey dey make moves are idiots, even the Saraki thats making moves you think they are playing?

They know even if they cannot make it in 2019, they will be top contenders in the future

Which Ibo candidate has seriously contested for presidency in the last 50yrs and finished say runner up.

Now even though most Northerners know Buhari is almost unbeatable about 8 of them still came out, currently we have Duke from SS, even the useless Fayose is making moves, where are the SE governors and ex governors?

What stops someone like Chime, Nnamani, Peter Obi and those ex governors from launching serious presidential campaign and insist they must be the candidate in 2019, by so doing, even if they convince you and beg you to step down you know by next dispensation your name would be the first to be mentioned rather Ekweremaddu is following Saraki about hoping to be VP, why cant Ekweremadu say I want to be president, Saraki be my Vice

Your people are business men, if you want to sell for N500, you normally start negotiation from N2,000 before a lot of haggling and finally setle for round 500. A smart trader in Aba or Onitsha doesn't start negotiation from 550 when he wants to sell for N500

Yoruba and Tinubu brought up the APC, gave Hausa the first run at it for 8yrs, after those 8yrs, a Yoruba man has positioned himself for the next 8yrs at least in APC, what have you done to position yourselves for power that you want

Igbos must be granted opportunity at the plater of gold like others, that is my own.

Even if Yorubas have contested in the past against any opponent, Igbos have done so also in lesser popular party.

In the interest of peace, power must rotate to others in Nigeria if not Nigeria will never see light and will continue to be a shithole country.

You guys should continue your gang up against the Igbos and we will know whether anything will ever work in Nigeria. Igbo turn they must work for it, Yoruba turn and Hausa turn they deserve reparation with cooked up stories.

MayorofLagos:
Yoruba earned it. It was not given.... Sovereingty was at risk of collapse. Nigeria has not yielded to bokoharam as much and prolonged this war had been. It did not take Yoruba this long to bring Nigeria to its knees. I can't tell you the reason behind it, you have to figure it yourself, but it is there.

Yoruba did not bring Nigeria to any knee, you guys are just lucky that Abacha died and nothing more. The world powers killed Abacha because he is fighting their interest like Gadafi of Libya, is it knockout that Yoruba is throwing in lagos that would have prevented Abacha from become life president of Nigeria under civilian arrangement as he has planned it.

MayorofLagos:
Good point!

Let me highlight to you the sequence of events. They say one good turn deserves another good in the other direction.

Shortly before Abacha died he had accepted and came to terms there was nothing he could to stop Yoruba separation from Nigeria. There was not a military solution to prevent it because OPC had acquired militancy and even military properties were being blown up and their personnell targeted randomly in SW. He had however had a political solution, which was to use his Yoruba captives to negotiate a somewhat less volatile dissolution. If we dialed back to 1957 that incidence will make the third time North had accepted a readiness to dissolve. First was Ahmadu Bello disgruntingly refusing to accept independence in 1957, at the cost of separation. The second was a traumatic outcome in 1966 when Murtala opted to evacuate all Northerners in South, his Yoruba wife notwithstanding. The third was the Abacha episode with Nadeco and OPC at his throat and as Head of State he could go anywhere in the country except Yorubaland. Abacha's death was a sacrifice that kept Nigeria together. If he had not died there will be nothing called Nigeria by now.

Obasanjo was reparation to Yoruba for the wrong done to MKO. It doesn't matter which way the country voted in 1999, a Yoruba would end up as President.

Where is Ibo reparation? PDP has it. PDP treats you like scum, is disrespectful to Christians but you hold tight to them defensively. When will you realize PDP is your barrier to the Presidency?

If reparation was done to Yorubas in 1999, in 2023 reparation should also be done to Igbos, APC and PDP should produce Igbo candidate like in 1999 to ensure Igbo presidency.If not there is no way yoruba man will win election again in Nigeria, if APC present a Yoruba in 2023 then PDP will present a northerner and the northerners in APC will decamp to PDP to make sure that power remain in the north and the cycle continues.

MayorofLagos:
Why do you yield to others if they won't yield to you?

Igbos have sense of Nigerian belonging in 1999, they did not yield to others but just have national interest at heart and felt sorry for what happen to Abiola and Yorubas., Igbos felt sympathetic for Yorubas following Abiola saga, Igbos was convinced to step down for yorubas that is why the two major parties in 1999 produce yorubas as contestant, but Yorubas are now doing as if they were not giving presidency on a plater of Gold in 1999, Obasanjo when he was pulled from prison look like a half dead man and don't even know what is going on.

This was picture of Obasanjo in 1999, that is why he was grateful to Igbos and use more Igbos in his cabinet.

MayorofLagos:
You are not serious! You want Ibo to work for its victory to the Presidency.... You must live on Mars.
No, they are privileged, they are not to work for victory, rather Nigeria must handover this power to Ibo in 2023.



On a serious note, there are about five or more Yorubas (SW and NC combined) on different political platform ready to slug it out with Buhari in 2019. Even if they do not get the victory on first trial, they have advanced a political milestone by acquiring experience and footprints that move them closer at each attempt to finally achieve their goal. Yoruba does not respect the zoning formula....they are throwing their shots. This is what happened to Buhari. He contested every cycle and with constancy. Ibo can contest on different platforms in every election cycle...the experience is indispensable and strengthens the resolve to build consensus and alliance that works in their favour. It is ridiculous and unfathomable that APGA, an Ibo party, is fielding a Northerner for 2019. What's wrong with Ibo, are you less competent than the Northerner?

You are talking rubbish, Igbos has been contesting for presidency since 1999 on different political platform.

Know you that presidency was handed to Obasanjo on a plater of gold, he didn't work for it for one day but was pulled from prison because he handed over to Shagari against the SW wish and him as a military head of state just came by chance due the death of his boss Muritala Muhammed in a coup. Jonathan also became president by chance not by contest. Buhari is only Nigerian that have became a president by contest fueled by the northerners insisting that power must shift to the north by fire by force in 2015.

raumdeuter:
In this 4th republic should we check the candidates that have put the SE on their ballot and how they fared?

2003 Buhari put a strong SE candidate Okadigbo on the ballot yet lost all SE states failed to make 15% in any SE state
In 2007 Buhari put Ume Ezeoke as VP on the ballot yet lost all SE states
In 2007, Atiku put Ben Obi on the ballot as VP yet lost all SE states
In 2007 Yar Adua put Jonathan a SS man on the ballot and he won all SS plus SE votes

The antecedents have shown that putting a SE man on the ballot or Not will never sway a SE man away from PDP

Buhari, Atiku found out the hard way

This your fact is a lie.

PDP is a majority party in Nigeria after 1999 election, PDP in 2007 is very strong in SE/SS. Buhari party and Atiku party is not popular party in the east. Do know that Buhari won the election because the north felt that it is their turn to rule Nigeria by fire by force, all machinery was geared toward that using all manner of violence including Boko haram.
Ojukwu on APGA also lost SE votes because PDP have more influence.

Had it been that Ekwueme was not persuaded to step down for Obasanjo in order to calm SW for Abiola saga, Ekwueme would have won the election.

AnanseK:
When you people learn to be responsible and take your nation seriously. If you are still thinking of bringing criminals to return us to the governance of thievery and embezzlement as we saw with the PhD ineffectual buffoon, then Buhari must continue the good work he started.

This one is one of them, if they search his mind now, tribalism is making him to support Buhari, which thievery and embezzlement that happen before that is happening now, the members of PDP move to APC in 2015 because they felt that power must move to the north.

Maina that use 250 million naira to cut grass is still in government, all the looters in PDP are the one running APC government.

Amitez:
Since 1966 this man has been on Nigerian government support and since 1975 been chopping Nigeria, that is for 43 years; yet he can mindlessly accuse those who were there for less than 10 years of destroying Nigeria. All his generation have retired and he is still flexing lifeless muscles.

Behold the SEVEN woes to the supporters:

Woe unto you youth ... who for a meager N30k would vote this dinosaur of a man to remain president
Woe to you hypocrite ... who blinded by ethnicity look up to an octogenarian for solution in 21st century
Woe to you religious bigots ... who having sold their souls to religion have forgetten about future of their children
Woe to you whose father is younger than this archaic dinosaur but still look to him to save you
Woe to you BMO and BMC ... who for gullibility preach falsehood about this man's integrity in face of monumental corruption
Woe to you APC ... who deceived the youth of Nigeria with change slogan, yet delivers chain
Woe! Woe! Woe to you who want to quote me and type nonsense!

You said it all, in a sane country this man is not suppose to be reasoning of being in power after participating to destroy the country.

But in Nigeria, hypocrisy,religious fanaticism and tribalism is all they know, no national interest.

This Buhari is one of the problem of Nigeria and the reason why Nigeria is a shithole country, in a sane country this man is not suppose to be in power, someone that carried out a coup to remove a democratic government, have been in circle of governance since 1960s and have join to loot the treasury, from one minister to another to PTF chairmen yet no improvement in all the sectors he has headed, nothing to show for it except nepotism and looting.

naptu2:
By the way, Emeagwali's network of computers was not even the fastest that was listed in the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize awards. It was the second fastest, but it won by default because the other team that produced a fastesr supercomputer network had already won in other categories and also because Emeagwali's solution was cheaper.

Google "A look back on 30 years of the Gordon Bell Prize - The Netlib" to read the details on the website of the organisers of the AMC Gordon Bell Prize.

Atleast you agree that he won but by default, listen to Bill Clinton the former president of US.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI9sZfm2Bnk

naptu2:
Explain how the current internet is based on his work. Cite reputable sources while you are explaining.

1.Encyclopedia source

2. Former American president Bill Clinton


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI9sZfm2Bnk

IbnAbdullah1:
Bro, I don't do dropping of names.
Forget the Afonja neck you usually hold on to.
It was a detailed research article that exposed and answered every point and news media that promoted him.
They even went as far as his college and how he failed his degree exam after all that.

If you really want the truth pleased read this link with an unbiased mind.
We are supposed to be fact checkers not fictions backers.

read the kind below.

https://www.google.com/url?q=http://saharareporters.com/2010/10/18/how-philip-emeagwali-lied-his-way-fame&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjv7cC-1qTdAhXPL1AKHU3vADIQFjAAegQICBAB&usg=AOvVaw3rRugVfSddmSFrWqNxoHza

Forget this cooked up links, encyclopedia, BBC, CNN cannot be lying at the same time.

naptu2:
Then he is not the father of the internet (which goes back to my original point). How does developing "the fastest modern supercomputer" make him the father of the internet??

It was on that basis that this current Internet is based. Internet was very slow until they started using his idea, he is not the owner of the idea but was able to combine to produce a fast one.

IbnAbdullah1:
Why do our Igbo compatriots like celebrating fraudsters?
This guy is a fraud.
I don't usually do this.
I used to be a one time admirer of this guy not until I read an exposé by Sahara reporters that's when I knew Nigerians and even the world will be sold with just one lie.
This was the same kind of like George Bush and Tony Blair used in invading Iraq.

He is not a fraud, sahara reporters is a local champion, an Afonja media that peddle lies and hate.

CNN;BBC and Encyclopedia cant be wrong.

Former President of America Bill Clinton recognize him and other world leaders, you guys should stop hating.

naptu2:
What makes him the father of the modern day Internet?

He developed the fastest modern super computer, there was Internet before he develop that

naptu2:
The recognised fathers of the Internet are Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, while Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web. This thread is in violation of rule 8.

They said father of modern day internet not father of internet, Afonja ronu

nextstep:
It's one thing to work hard and be recognized for brilliance (Phd or not). This charlatan should be called out for who he is. I used to be enamored of his achievements about 2 decades ago (who would not, as an Igbo speaking young Black aspiring scientist myself?), but started realizing over time that this dude was a fraud. His accolades are a result of false packaging and fraudulent representation. There is no honour in hyping up a fake and we need to expose him as such.

Nwanne, we have many many brilliant minds of Igbo descent - many of them are recognized and acclaimed around the world for their genuine contributions - but this Emeagwali fellow is a disgrace to that legacy.

Phillip Emeagwali is great man, your hate wont bring him down, he have achieve something,go and achieve your own instead of hating.