₦airaland Forum

Who wrote this poo?
As young as I am , I can remember and experienced at least 2 waves of mass migration from the southeast to the southwest
The first one was during shagari regime.
The second was under Babangida.
Lagos was pretty much built up then and the characters was based on every Yoruba city and town which has ever existed

shachris02:
Oh, he did save it. But the same governors lead by Rothiefi amaechi insisted that it's shared.

That's the context of Ngozi's statement.

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/sunnewsonline.com/why-govs-shared-oil-money-amaechi/amp/

Read again .
The money in the ECA was $22 billion .o
FG share was 55%
State and LGA - 45%
That money was drawn down within 6 months of Jonathan becoming president.
6 months !!!!!!!
What was it spent on ?
Even The most corrupt states can show a few things with their share

The war is being mismanaged

Why didn't Jonathan save the FG share of 14 billion dollars.
This woman should just disappear.

G

People always like displaying the pix of their upper classes and middle classes as if they are representative of the general population.

BLACKdagger:
Hehehehe wake up stop dreaming.
U only get access to few..
The old one who ar3 getting despared for marriage.
No real igbo girl can marry a yoruban..And no sensible igbo man can marry yoruba woman.

I spent 3 months in Iboland on a construction project . At the same time one of my wingmen was serving .
We went through upper middle class Ibo girls like trains without brakes.
A few wanted relationships but boys just wanted to play .
They mostly gave it on first date .

Chukazu:
Igbo women don win most beautiful girl in Nigeria pageant so much that other tribes are complaining of been marginalized

No thoroughbred Yoruba woman would turn herself into an object for public display .

Accuses a demented Fayose of sharing rice .
Then ,
He shares rice himself.

They need to put ekiti state under receivership.

Msteeeeeew
The Alaafin fall my hand on this one oo

Half a billion dollars for 12 flying Okada !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This scam has been on since Jonathan was president .
Obama blocked the sales for human right reasons thereby and indirectly stopping the corruption , maladministration and the braindeadedness of this procurement contract.
When you look at the requirements for the war on boko haram.

1 quick deployment
2 payload
3 continous aerial coverage
4 devastating firepower
5 Precision
6 total and complete aerial control of the battle space
Etc
This contract stinks .
Why have they( Buhari ) not terminated this useless and corrupt contract.
Uganda bought more Russian SU - 30 for less.
This Okada like tin- can that that Nigeria is buying for over half a billion dollars is something which Nigeria should have been able manufacture locally lik all the other crap we import .Heck ordinary Pakistan ( a country where more than 70% of males are functionial illiterates) makes fighter jets.
*************************just demonstrating Nigeria's degree of uselessness.********************************

In fact , it would have made more sense to buy propeller planes for less than $200,000 and retrofitting them with advanced weapon system.

Heck, purchase 15 battle ready and battle tested SU-30 fighters for the same price .

Nigeria's situation is in irreversible terminal decline .
The smart ones have already left and those who are left fall into 2 categories.

1 those with the means to escape with their families at a moment notice in their private jet or first class commercial. Their children typically have the passports of developed countries

2 Those who cannot afford to leave .

Today's news was that the Nigerian stock exchange is booming . How can comatose country with a sick base economy have a booming stock exchange ?

1 Bad roads
2 poor corporate governance
3 no electricity
4 Poor political leadership
5 collapsed educational system
6 A society rife with superstition in the name of religion
7 Medieval agricultural practice
8 Collapsed law ,justice and order
9 I can list 100 reasons


What you have is a make-believe economy with with fake GDP figure conjured out of thin air by Jonathan and Iweala . Just like the civil servant who goes to the office to pray , sell clothes and sit on his asssss all day , the stock exchange does not bear any direct relevance with the true state of the Nigerian society ( including the economy).
Back to the subject , in other climes , the children of other so called elites ( nothing elite in their morality, thought process) would have been stopped in their tracks by law enforcement before hurting themselves and the people around them.
I have seen the bad behaviour and the sense of entitlement of of children of ordinary commissioners in the past . I simply wonder how bad the children of presidents , senators,minister,generals etc behave .
Their would have been the availability of adequately resourced hospitals.

I doubt Nigeria is ever going to be able to conjure the revolutionary government needed to escape the death spiral .

SalamRushdie:
This is not the way to go about a previous govts policy

What is this man saying ?

People put in the position of trust used their position s to convert public property to private holding and all you have to say is the above .
In other climes , it will be regarded as theft.
Let's us just assume for one minute that the government really wanted to dispose excess holdings, was the property sold for a fair price at a fair auction.

F

This is why having opposition matters.
Even though , I thoroughly dislike Fayose , I support his action against this absurdity.
I also like the fact that he is an antidote to the over liberal attitude of my fellow omoluabis.
Yorubaland needs thoroughbred conservatives to replace the clowns currently holding the fort

The federal government should be forced to slim down to free up funds for development.
Asking to spend money set aside by states , after extracting the money from the soil of polluted states is an overreach .

Stalwert:
Foolish analysis from a fool. why do myopic fanatical Christians have so much fear of religious gear? Na your head the gear go fall? What concerns Saudi with the matter when secular America the very country where the idea of secularism came out from allows women to wear the hijab when being called to bar? Is not sad she doesn't need to live in Saudi to get a right as mudane as wearing a hijab when she can as well live in the US to get these rights?

The fanaticism of the average fanatical Christian is laughable, they keep shouting sango worshippers as if it should be their business what a member of traditional religions wear. can Christians for once learn to mind their business, what if a sango worshippers wears their head gear how is that affecting them?

Intolerance and hate is becoming a hallmark of certain elements on Christianity they support racist Trump who even hate their race, out of spite towards Muslims so pathetic.

That ninja wear has nothing to do with Islamic religion ( a religion that once it get into politic leads to backwardness) .
It is traditional Arabian clothes to cover against the fury of the desert ( the sun , the dust, the sand ) .
Even men have their own type but nobody is mandating them to put it on in the name of religion .
However , It purpose today is to control the female gender. An emblem of the inferiority of the women who must be subjugated by men
Everything it stands for is anti - Yoruba and anti-omoluabi.

" NIGERIA MUST REMAIN A SECULAR NATION .
Secularity was one of the foremost fights Awo fought .
The only thing I agree with from all the debate is the fact that Christian fundamentalists arguments are based on their own religious bias .

The government and people of Nigeria are simply not serious about development.
If they were ,a brand new power station ( at least 500MW) would be coming live every quarter.
Expensive yes, but possible

I wonder what took him so long to realise this fact .
Upon all Jonathan and his goons did and said...
I couldn't give a toss about PDP or APC .
Both parties are occupied by derelicts and nincompoops.
To me , both parties are anti - everything the Yoruba should aspire for .
The reforms needed ,
the change in orientation,
the decency needed ,
the moral uprightness ,
the administrative competence needed everywhere
The entire Nigerian political system makes conservatives look like progressives while thugs are the conservatives.
Every sensible Yoruba would work hard to insulate , inoculate and isolate the Yoruba Nation from the larger Nigerian polity .
Yorubal leaders governing Yoruba land for the Yoruba people on behalf of future Yoruba not yet born
That polity has doomed itself for destruction.

You can tell a lot about the quality of leadership and the civil service by simply looking at basic stuffs like waste collection , replacement of dead street lights etc .
Ambode is a couple of levels below Fashola in terms of governance.
This is disgustingly familiar .

Anybody who is still thinking there is no grand conspiracy need to get their head checked.
It is not even about cattle feeding.
That bit is just an excuse

Hmmm

Fast forward to the Second Republic. Just as is happening today, the President Shehu Shagari administration was pretending that the country was making speedy progress under his lacklustre and utterly visionless, inept leadership. In his 1982 budget presentation to the National Assembly, President Shagari told the lawmakers that “The enumerated setbacks in our economy in 1981 notwithstanding, our GDP has shown a slight improvement…available indicators show an encouraging growth of 15% in the manufacturing sector. There is a 3% rate of growth in the agricultural sector. Furthermore, there are increases in investments. These are, without doubt, expressions of confidence which investors have in the resilience of Nigeria’s economy. This confidence has remained unshaken, despite prophesies of the local forecasters of gloom and doom, who do not know the difference between resilience and buoyancy.”

The reader can surely see the similarities here between this speech and President Goodluck Jonathan’s mid-term report that suffocated us with statistics indicating that we are all faring very well even as hunger, poverty, disease, joblessness, violence and ignorance stalk the land and public infrastructure lie prostrate across the country.

The ‘forecasters of gloom and doom’ referred to by President Shagari in the budget speech cited above was none other than Chief Obafemi Awolowo who, in mid-1981 had warned in an open letter to Shagari that the economy was fast approaching a precipice and that urgent steps be taken to salvage the situation. Suggesting several measures that could be taken to safeguard the economy, Awolowo also criticised certain actions taken by Shagari and asked: “Shehu, do you ever ask yourself the question ‘Cui bono'”?

In a scathing reply, most likely authored by his political adviser, the late Senator Chuba Okadigbo, Shagari told Awo: “My dear Chief, I never ask myself questions in Latin. I only ask myself questions in Hausa or English”. Ah! Those were the days! Shagari’s Economic Adviser, Professor SM Essang addressed an international press conference in London lampooning Awolowo and declaring that the economy was in sound health.

To cut a long story short, in a matter of months Awo’s prediction came true. The economy was in deep crisis. Eating humble pie, Shagari addressed the National Assembly seeking special permission to introduce austerity measures. I promptly and very urgently threw my high school economics text book authored by Professor Essang, ‘Intermediate Economics’ into the waste bin telling myself, ‘teacher stop teaching me nonsense’!

From 2013

That economic crisis signalled the beginning of the end of the second republic. Both Shagari and his economic advisers were dangerously deluded. The second republic did not survive the debacle.

Fast forward to 2013 Nigeria. The more presidential aides deny such a glaring fact, the more the vast majority of Nigerians are convinced that the Jonathan presidency is bent on destabilizing the Rivers State government and getting the governor, Rotimi Amaechi, out of office at all costs and by all means no matter how foul.

Having successfully hounded Governor Timpre Sylva of Bayelsa State out of office and imposed Seriake Dickson on the state as governor in a highly militarized election, Jonathan and his inner clique obviously believe they can do the same in Rivers. Amaechi’s sin? He is believed to harbour ambition for higher office in 2015 – an aspiration which Jonathan strategists think can hurt the President’s second term ambition.

Thus, the police in Rivers State provided security for five members of the 32-member state House of Assembly to sit and attempt impeaching the Speaker illegally but for Amaechi’s timely intervention. The same police looked the other way as a mob attacked four northern governors who paid a solidarity visit to Amaechi in Port Harcourt. Mr Mbu John Mbu, the Rivers State Police commissioner, obviously reading the presidency’s body language, has been openly rude to and disdainful of the governor without rebuke.

President Jonathan, received the arrow head of the anti-Amaechi forces, the Minister of State for Education, Mr Nyeson Wike, and the five minority members of the House whose violation of the 1999 constitution sparked the recent violence in the legislative chamber, at the presidential Villa in Abuja. This was a tacit recognition by the presidency of Evan BapakayeBipi, who has been absurdly, preposterously and ignominiously parading himself as the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly.

Dame Patience Jonathan openly told 16 Bishops from the South-South, who visited her in Abuja that Amaechi defied her request that some structures should not be demolished in her hometown, Okrika, and that he removed the Chairman of a local government who held a reception in her honour. Does this not suggest that these are part of the causes of Amaechi’s travails and that the presidency is deeply involved in the Rivers crisis?

Despite the clear danger that the Rivers crisis portends for democracy in Nigeria, presidential aide, Dr.Doyin Okupe, avers blissfully that all is well. In his words, “The crisis in Rivers State in no way poses any threat to the nation’s democracy. Nigeria remains peaceful and cannot in any way be threatened by political developments in the state…The situation in Rivers State is purely a localized political matter and has no dangerous or far reaching consequences for the peace and security of the nation”.

This is a very dangerous delusion. Has Dr. Okupe pondered what would happen if Governor Amaechi drops dead today even if of natural causes? Has he considered what would have happened if northerners had retaliated against South-South indigenes in their states for the treatment meted out to their governors in Port Harcourt? Is he not disturbed that an ordinarily taciturn General Abdusalam Abubakar has uncharacteristically come out to warn publicly that the Rivers crisis may torpedo the country’s democracy if not quickly checked? Does he not think that there may be something the General knows that he does not?

Is Dr Okupe aware that there are currently military task forces operating in at least 28 states in the country – an indication of pervasive instability? This column sincerely hopes that President Jonathan does not share this dangerous delusion. It is heart- warming that the President on Thursday vowed to curb political excesses in the country while receiving the leadership of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) at the Presidential Villa. The earlier he does that the better. For, the degeneration of the Rivers crisis may signal the ‘Nunc Dimittis’ of this democracy. God forbid.

Effing terrorists in an accursed country.
Such a horror show .
These bastards are essentially destroying the basis of over 50℅ of Nigeria's GDP(AGRICULTURE).

oodualover:
We don't want it. We are more interested in leaving this backward country.
Give us referendum.
Give us Oodua republic.
We want to rule ourselves and create a better future for our children and generation unborn.
Nigeria is almost 60 years and nothing to show for her age.
Give us Oodua republic.
We want our own country.
We can be independent.

This .
And We will .
Rubbish positions for unfruitful sets of nincompoops.
I want to be governed by some whose father's house I know.

We do have a problem with the calibre of people representing us in the SW nowadays.
It seems to me that we are beginning to toe the path of other regions by allowing absolutely bland mediocre people to represent us .
At least , those from the past had some command of the issues and comported themselves in public.
Dino Melaye - no need to rerun Last year's argument . A man with no redeemable quality.
Davido's uncle , the so called dancing senator . It appears to me that the senate is on a social call.AWANBE .
What exactly is his governing philosophy apart from dancing ? The appeal seems to be all about the status of a senator rather than fighting to alter the dangerous trajectory Nigeria has been toeing for the greater part of 70 years

Nigeria is doomed .
They have not even added desertification and climate change.

SalamRushdie:
But Trump has stopped funding ISIS and they have been completely routed in 10 mnths something Obama pretended that couldny be done for 6 years

You think?
Until you realise that the president are merely figure heads

syncACE:
nonsense...yes the economy was better, oil prices were high, revenues were gotten in abundance...yet there wasnt any remarkable progress in the country's development...
instead his stupid dame wife looted as much as she could and still confidently claims that nobody should touch her money...
useless drunken master

U dey mind them.
After eating their childrens' future yesterday, they are complaining about today.
These are the products of our universities .
They can be helped by taking their votes away because they will end up hurting themselves.
In actual fact ,all indices of human development went south under Jonathan.

Gfff

Nigeria suckssss
Damn

MasViews:
It really hurts to see a young pretty and dumb girl doing what she knows best.

That person is supposed to be a graduate.

English grammar as a second language - graduate level;
Thought process - illiterate.