₦airaland Forum

If I recall well, the president complained of Jim Ovia and Wale Tinubu's presence. So who should be suspended for Wale's presence? Let's be objective please.

phantom:
Mods,please put this on the frontpage.Let people Know whats going on in the east.

@OP.....there is no reason why the south east cannot feed itself.
onitsha,aba and nnewi alone can grow the SE.
all the east needs is an enabling environment.
Our leaders (including our leaders in the east)have failed us...otherwise what stops the leaders of all the eastern States from coming together and building Power plants solely for the markets at aba and onitsha and the industrial district at nnewi?
What stops them from coming together and giving the necessary support to governor udom to actualize the ibaka Port.A port in akwaibom would serve the east well.
With an international airport and a seaport in the east the FG can go f***ck themselves.(pardon my expression)

One single policy can still destroy all these. My brother we still need to have people in government. It will only make us greater.

Simply wonderful. This country truly has great potentials.

Very likely to be true.

So not even one person from South East. This man should not give me reason to start supporting Radio Biafra. It appears Nnamdi Kanu is right after all. This is really terrible. I thought they said Buhari is a reformed democrat. He should please not widen the gap I am seeing gradually creeping into d polity. A lot of us still believe in one Nigeria. Baba please don't play vindictive politics.

This is a great article. I wish the two groups can actually work together. The North will simply sit up in the face of the emergence of this strong block in the South. I know it will come to pass one day, but dunno whether it will be in my generation.

ruffDiamond:
go and d.ie abeg who is yr ikwereMalu to the rest of Nigeriahe amount to NOTHING and Southeast? .mtchewww y'all persona non grata!Igbo issue making empty threat since 1960 .go shout that nonsense in front of ewu -lobia prison in ANAMBRA.

I feel ur pain Aturu. You guys have planned with your drug lord how to take over all the major positions for your south wasteners. Alas, you were outsmarted. This is just d beginning. My advise is let the bickering stop. We are sick of it.

senier007:
Karma is a B**tch, it hits you when you feel you are untouchable, and Army, Police, Court can't help you on this one since you disrespected both your fada and the party that brought you to power, when you disrespected your fada we didn't intervene cuz it's family issue unknown to us, you are turning yourself to a monster like and must be stopped or rubbished at all cost. I am a fulani man but I will vote for Asiwaju a millions times than to waste my vote on Atiku, dangote and the sarakis of this world. Jagaban Borgu till mahdi comes.

The way these APC guys are carrying on, I hope they will not wake up one day and murder Saraki and Ekweremadu. This level if bitterness is never seen before. The SSS and security agencies should ensure these two guys are protected. An attack on Ekweremadu is an attack on the SE. APC cannot tell us that their performance within these 4yrs is hinged purely on a hand picked senate president. These should just move ahead and all the legislature to function independently as Buhari approved. This bickering should stop.

enomakos:
Wetin oku di means?

PKU means fire. Oku di over. Fire is over.

It's hilarious indeed

The house which represents Nigerians and the party which is for a few, who is really supreme? Me thinks the interest of Nigerians supercedes that of a few.

Gbaja should go and rest.

A house divided against itself.

I tuned into the station for the first time and am shocked.

treasuremabel:
Am 18

May God continue to sustain you. I have a warrior son. He is 8 and doing great. Learnt of a supplement called Cellod S. It has been very helpful.

treasuremabel:

Following a mysterious bone pains at age 8, I found out I had sickle cell anaemia,
It wasn't easy to mange it then.
To start with,

Sickle cell is a blood disorder that is hereditary n starts from when one is born,
So what happened? Why did mine wait till I was 8 before it started?

Funny enough, my mum said I was never sick as a baby n the only problem I had was measles,
I grew curious n asked my doctor,
After a number of 'no idea' replies he came up with an hypoyhesis where he claimed that my healthy look n lack of crisis or sickle cell symptoms till age 8 was as a result of extensive breast feeding.
Still don't know if his hypothesis is wrong or right.

Life as a warrior wasn't easy but what helped me was the refusal to accept self pity in my life,
Crazy enough, I happen to belong to a class of people who are intelligent,
After coming first in exams, I kept telling myself on n on that I was better than those with normal RBCs
I believed it too n that worked for me!
I had a dream n I wanted to accomplish it irrespective of my health difference n the set backs I suffered as a sickler
I refused to receive pitied love, in fact I got disgusted when people became nicer to me just cos they found out I have sickle cell anaemia.
I refused to compromise, I dreamed like every normal person.

How did I do it all??
1. I just believed in myself
2. I took care of my health, you know, eat at the right time, avoided stuff that contained iron, avoided extremely bitter things, made sure the weather was conducive for me, drank lots of water n took fruits.
3. I never depended on the drugs
4. I set goals for myself
5. I discovered who I am n who I wanted to be
6. I gave no room to self pity or pity from others
7. I saw sickle cell anaemia as a challenge not a disease
8. I never allowed myself to get intimidated by those with normal RBCs
9. I just kept FIGHTING n NEVER GAVE UP.

Tell you what, I don't take folic acid everyday, I don't take any drugs at all currently but my lifestyle has kept me away from hospital for 1year n 8months now,

If I can do it....you can do better cos we all are warriors.

To those who have loved ones who are warriors, keep encouraging,
Its not easy but its POSSIBLE!

Let's spread the awareness n keep FIGHTING!

Please how old are you now

I am so so sad that this horrible fate befell my dear Prof Adichie. Remember him those days at UNN, very graceful, humble and intelligent. Thank God for his safety.

This is an obscene display of wealth. Na waoooooo. For change. Abi na changi

annice2014:
were was our president's wife in that pix

Nigerian women about to be sent to the back seat. Already missing Mama p

This man is simply WONDERFUL. He is an enigma and needs to be studied. I hereby declare Akpabioism as a new course of study for all incoming Governors.

Nothing like election in Rumuokoro\Rumuagholu axis. We just dey house dey eat, sleep and watch movies. Amaechi is a bufoon. Hope APC chieftains are taking note of the confusion he is creating in Rivers state. This confusion will follow him to Abuja and anything he touches will turn to confusion.

This young man started well and we loved him before he lost focus. Now he is the master of troublemaking. I no go better for am.

Their income stream is like this. 220,000*47,000 = N10.3Billion.

Visa fee non refundable is N47,000 per applicant. Imagine how much USA is making annually from Nigerians.

manuroq:
Is it that the office of the chief judge is vacant?

Yes it is. Amaechi shut down the courts since one year because his preferred candidate for CJ was not qualified and not recommended by the NJC. The man has put the livelihood of lawyers and their family in Rives state in a mess for a long time. His sins are gradually catching up with him.

barcanista:
hahaahahhahahahah... But wait o, since Amaechi become Governor him polarise Nigeria Governor Forum, him factionalise Rivers State House of Assembly, him factionalise Rivers State Judiciary (the first in history of Nigeria) and him no fit point any single project wey in do for him second term. Remember say Amaechi been talk say him de save N1b every month to keep for him successor? That means Wike should be expecting a minimum of N96 billion as State savings.

My brother. He managed to save N56bn and withdrew all during the Buhari campaign. I am a a Banker, I know.

Loser Amaechi lost again. Where to next time? Maybe Lagos high court where Jagaban will influence the judge for him. Amaechi sooorryyyyyy

The scramble for Nigeria phase 2. America have finally found a second puppet after IBB.

A victim is speaking

GogobiriLalas:
I agree with Ben, Ghana-must-go is so 90s, electronic funds transfer is the in thing now

It's traceable. They don't accept it. Hen knows what he is saying. Have u forgotten Farouk Lawan and Otedola.

Travel agents. Overseas trips will surely reduce. With less disposable income, people will cut down on holidays trips. Myself included.

Expensive Perfumes and Cosmetics

Usually during austerity periods, articles of ostentation are usually affected.

I lost all respect for that fundamentalist called Obama long ago. He will end up shamefully for all the atrocities he is committing against minorities the world over. His preference for Islam, the religion of his father was well concealed during his first term. He can hide it no longer. The blood of poor Christians massacred by Isis will haunt him. Hypocrite of the highest order.

Does anyone remember Halliburton scandal under OBJ and the Gulf Windfall of $10bn under IBB

Incomplete without IBB, Abacha and OBJ.

ibitzbarlow:
I have keenly followed your comments in several posts regarding the contentious Soku Oil Wells. You have always painted GEJ and PGEJ as those behind the re-allocation of Soku Oil Wells to Bayelsa and Rotimi Amaechi as the Saint who is fighting to reclaim these oil wells for Rivers State. I wish to use this medium to correct the falsehood you have been selling to innocent Nairalanders on this vexatious issue. Note the following points regarding the truth of this conflict:

1. I am a Rivers man from Abonnema in Akuku-Toru LGA, the same LGA that the Soku Oil Wells originally belong to. As such, I have no reason to rejoice over the loss of such oil wells since the loss in allocation/ revenue affects my people negatively.
2. This dispute started long before GEJ became President, and so no one in his or her right senses would claim that he gave Rivers Oil wells to Bayelsa State.
3.This dispute was as a result of an error in the boundary delineation between Rivers State and Bayelsa States by the NBC in the 11th edition of the Administration map of Nigeria which erroneously shifted the boundary from the original boundary at Santa Barbara River to San Batholomew River
4. The 11th edition of the Administrative map was prepared in 1999 and published in 2000 by which time Rotimi Amaechi was the Speaker of the RSHA while GEJ was Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State. Could GEJ as Deputy Governor have influenced the error on the map? Your guess is as good as mine.
5. The Rivers State Government petitioned the NBC and on the 3rd of July 2002 got apologies from the NBC and a promise to correct the error in the 12th edition of the Administrative map. That, we are still waiting for.
6.In 2011, Rivers State, now under Amaechi, went to court asking the Supreme Court to declare that the Soku fields are in Rivers State and that all allocations due it be given to Rivers State. On 10th July 2012, the Supreme Court unanimously struck out the case stating that it is in no right to grant the relief/declarations sought by the Plaintiff (Rivers State) until the NBC concludes it's work on the final delineation of the boundary between the two states in the expected 12th edition of the Administrative map of Nigeria.

My Point/Position

I strongly believe and hold that the disputed oilfield belongs to Rivers State but the cause of the dispute is neither GEJ nor PGEJ as you want Nairalanders to believe. This is so because the Genesis of the dispute predates Jonathan's Presidency and only became an issue in the public domain when Amaechi started his opposition politics. He was simply hiding behind that dispute to mask his real reasons for defecting from the PDP.
If Amaechi really loves us (Soku people) and is fighting for us, then I ask: Can he or You show the world one single laudable project he executed in the Oceania area of Akuku-Toru LGA of which Soku belongs? The answer is as good as your guess.

PS.
TheGood Joe, please stop labelling Rivers People as ungrateful to Amaechi. We are not ungrateful. It has not always been like this; We loved him when he was performing!

God bless you.