₦airaland Forum

Naajjii:
We buy favour from Nigeria Delta because they have Oil and are very important to Nigeria. But you Nyamiri people from the East , you are parasites you contribute nothing to the nation' s revenue generation you are not important to Nigerian , go to your Biafra we don't need you

It is silly comments like this that made me stop giving alms (my hard-earned money) to your beggarly brothers down here. You guys should come and pick them up or hunger would kill them. Take them back to your disease infested, illiteracy ridden, poverty stricken and terrorism lading paradise you call "North". Look at who is calling Igbos "parasites" shameless Cattle monger.

Name check 1, 2


Name check 1,2

Did anybody notice the insignia on the suspect's berret?

Atiwaye:
Buhari is deceiving himself if you forcefully taken people lands it will not go down well. In facts nobody will tell them to leave when their cow is dying. Cow is now your priority right many things are there but cow is number one.

You are quite wrong. Cows are not their no. 1 priority. These cows are but a means to another end. Political domination through land grabbing.

discusant:
Buhari is looking for Igbos to kill.


Buhari people despatched gunmen to the east, the gunmen kill soldiers and policemen, burn government buildings in the east, destroy the security apparatus in the east; thereafter, Buhari sends a select group of Fulani soldiers and Boko Haram repentants he integrated into Nigeria’s armed forces to the east in search of the gunmen who they now call ESN operatives.

The select group of soldiers fire indiscriminately to any direction they see Igbo civilians.

That’s how Buhari is fighting his Jihad in the east.

Aptly put

We no get democracy for Nigeria. Wetin we get na dictatorship. Make we kukuma call am dictatorship day.

What a sore loser

You can't give what you don't have.

The insect that lives on the vegetable feeds on the vegetable, how did they know he was in Owerri , what was his mission, how come they knew his travel plans and where to isolate him ?

It is a case of giving a dog a bad name just to hang it. You have to establish a motive first for IPOB to kill Gulak and investigation commences from there before you make an announcement claiming you shot 10 men who are not alive to even confess to the crime. It makes no sense but as they say common sense is not common.

JudasNaCarrot:
Police!
Police!!
Police!!!
How many times did I call you people.
We know you people are lying but continue.

Please you all should take a closer look at the burnt vehicle in the first picture, an incident that supposedly happened yesterday, why then does the vehicle look as if it was burnt a month ago with all green vegetation around. Severe heat from the burning vehicle will definitely affect grasses and vegetation around.

The bodies displayed were same ones displayed in the alleged attack in Agboncha, Eleme in Rivers State.

Don't tell me the police are acting based on order from above just to please certain quarters in the country. The governor, I hope is clean on this because I smell a fish after an ultimatum from Arewa youths to him to produce the killer(s) or......

Dethroned!

So within hours the police found the driver that was driving Gulak to the airport...the driver was able to know the make, colour and model of all three cars used in the operation ( not forgetting that initial police report said only one car was used).
Police now found the guys with the said cars in the same local government the crime was committed sharing onions to the masses...and the guys are now ten in number as against six in the police report...the guys now opened fire...they were not able to kill nor injure any policeman...the police now shot back and killed all ten guys ...same dare devil guys that intervened a car on high speed with a convoy of three cars and shot Gulak, were killed when they were sharing onions to a crowd and the police was able to be precise with their gunshots and killed only the ten guys without wounding anybody in the crowd.

All within five hours.

Haba...chai...and some people will actually believe...in short na we Bleep. up

Thunder fire una blokos.

That helicopter must belong to the Eastern Security Network (ESN).

BbqTormentor:
Nawao. This El rufai worse pass buhari o

Imagine him as president then.

What am I doing with the presidency of a country that has been rundown by idiots like Hell Rufai and his retrogressive clique? The Quantri stinks as it is.

ivolt:
He was never missing.

Mbaka ran a quick scam to redeem his battered image as a result of being exposed by his former friends.
Only a fool will believe that a cunning man like him can just disappear without a trace.

He likely told his aides to raise a false alarm of "abduction".

Thank you very much. You know the man well.

Nonsense agency that has become too politicized.

On the contrary this picture has been online for months now. It was previously reported (with the affixed picture) that suspected fulani herdsmen had murdered people while they slept somewhere in kaduna.

safarigirl:
LOL


Nairaland will ruin everything with their dirty tribalism and idiotic ramblings.

See this solid video of a well-spoken, confident, intelligent and handsome Nigerian man, thriving and rising to the top in the midst of his peers and idiots with no names and no legacies are here measuring their short dicks.

Shameful behavior.

My brother this tribalism for nairaland thing tire me. However, I am surprised that I never heard or read of this man's 1957 exploits at that memorable high school debate until I stumbled on the video on YouTube less than two hours ago. I am in my 40s but that 17 year old boy made a deep impression on me. His intellectual leverage over his co-debaters, his calm disposition amidst the racial tensions and despite being televised to millions of viewers live in a foreign country in the 1950s is simply amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=840XWjnt9wc


Boniface Offokaja, known as Bonny to his family, was born in Kano state, Nigeria on May 21, 1940, the first son of Thomas Igala Offokaja and his wife Susanna Offokaja. Thomas Offokaja was a businessman and leader in the Kano’s Igbo community.

Boniface Offokaja was the break-out star of the 1957 season of the High School Exchange Debaters from 32 Countries in the United States of America that year. At Sixteen years of age, he demonstrated remarkable oratory skills way beyond his age while still a student of St Gregory, Obalende, Lagos.

He was an outstanding debater among the exchange students who visited the USA that year and left a lasting impression on the American public who viewed the televised debate program among the high school students picked from all over the world. This was at a time when America was deeply battling racial segregation between the white and the black population, South Africa was deeply under Apartheid rule and Martin Luther King Jr, the Baptist Minister, was just starting the Civil Rights Movement.

During his exchange programme in the United States, he was not afraid to speak against unfairness in the treatment of people of African descent in the United States especially when his debates were televised live to millions of homes in the US. Beyond the treatment of blacks in the United States, young Boniface was unsparing in his query of the Apartheid rule in South Africa. This endeared him to many of his fellow exchange students, who were equally baffled by the methods of the American authorities while in the country.

On his return to Nigeria, after his exchange programme his father, Thomas Offokaja became a traditional leader – Igwe Thomas Offokaja of Akwu-ukwu, in the Idemmili South local government area of Anambra State, Eastern Nigeria.

EDUCATION
Young Bonny grew up in Kano and was fluent in Hausa at an early age. On completing primary school, he was among outstanding students who got admitted to the highly competitive St Gregory’s College, Obalende, Lagos. In Lagos, he was doubly promoted as a result of his outstanding performance and graduated in 1957 (aged 17). The teenage Offokaja excelled in his academics at St. Gregory’s College and won the national essay competition organized by the New York Herald Tribune on the subject “The World We Want”.

Consequently, Offokaja was picked to represent Nigeria at the World Youth Forum in the United States of America. In the United States, Boniface excelled among high school students from 32 other countries.

Offokaja-boniface
Transition to the Broadcasting World
In 1958, after his school certificate exam, Offokaja’ s flair for writing and speaking landed him a job as a newscaster with the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC).

He cut his broadcasting teeth at NBC and was sharpened through NBC’s training programmes. At NBC, Offokaja championed workers’ rights and got into a bit of a tiff with management and the Federal Minister of Information.

The Premier of Eastern Nigeria, Dr Michael Okpara headhunted Offokaja just before independence in 1960 and transferred him to the Eastern Nigerian Broadcasting Service (ENBS). At ENBS Offokaja excelled at radio and television presentations. He moved rapidly to the top in the news division where he read news report daily and was a delight to listen to during the daily evening news broadcast.

During the Nigerian Civil war (1967-1970), Offokaja was a wartime correspondent for the AFP (the French International news agency) and had a good working relationship with Frederick Forsythe who worked for Reuters, BBC, and later became a freelance reporter.

Offokaja was under 30 when the war ended so he decided to pursue his tertiary educational dreams, hitherto unrealized because of his broadcasting commitments. He then attended the University of London, and later returned to broadcasting as a turnaround manager & administrator.

Offokaja studied History and Economics at the University of London. He obtained a degree in the History of Ideas from La Sorbonne (University of Paris).

He returned to Nigeria and was appointed Director of News and Current Affairs in East Central State Broadcasting Service (ECBS). Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Dr Michael Okpara, Administrator Ukpabi Asika and other top leaders chose him to anchor their programs and conduct their interviews.

In 1978 (aged 38) Offokaja became the youngest Director-General of the ECBS where he ran an efficient and innovative operation. He secured land for and superintended the establishment of a commercial radio station at Onitsha. This new station morphed into the Anambra Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) headquarters. The renowned Nigerian Actor, Pete Edochie was the Director of Programmes at ABC in a different era from Mr Boniface Offokaja.

Offokaja also organized in-house training programs for all staff (skilled and unskilled) and was a delight to have around for members of staff due to his wealth of knowledge and experience.

He established the University of the Air perhaps, Nigerian’s First Open University, in partnership with the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT) Enugu. IMT delivered lectures through ABC’s radio and TV resources and provided non-conventional avenues for many young people to pursue their academic and professional training.

Entrepreneurial Pursuits – Ekulo Farms, politics, and a return to Broadcast Management.
In 1984 (aged 44) Offokaja retired from broadcasting to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams. He established a large poultry farm named Ekulo Farms, at the time the biggest in the South East Zone of Nigeria.

The farm possessed not only a poultry feed mill that fed its birds and supplied other farms in Nigeria, but also an ethanol production plant.

He got involved in politics in the early 90s running for Anambra State Chairmanship under the National Republican Convention (NRC). The NRC was the all Nigerian political party established by the government of General Ibrahim Babangida and ultimately disbanded by the military regime of General Sani Abacha in 1993.

In 1996, Offokaja was appointed Sole Administrator of the struggling Anambra Broadcasting Corporation, which he turned around within 18 months.

Latter years – Publishing and a Deepening Personal Christian Faith
Offokaja spent the last two decades of his life publishing with Enterprise Today, a digital-age economic and business journal. Then, Health and Lifestyle, an informative and motivating health magazine.

He also published books such as Great Igbos of the Last Millennium and The Nigeria Energy Crisis- a Rush to Coal.

Offokaja married Sorbonne Alumna Ndidi (nee Obianwu) on December 30th 1979 and has 2 sons, 5 daughters and 10 grandchildren.

Offokaja took his personal Christian faith more seriously later in life. He died on November 10, 2018, at the fulfiled age of 78 years. He touched many lives along the way.

“Have spent 15 years studying it(Apartheid system of governance), and every day I become more prejudice against South Africa(Apartheid) I don’t need to spend a day more.”

Mr Boniface Offokaja is reckoned by many as among the great pioneer of the new Nigeria after the independence from the British.

Here are some of his memorable quotes as a 17 year old in that 1957 high school debate in New York City.

“How could you(America) be objective about African negroes, when you are prejudiced against American Negroes“


“On that point … I think you’ve read your history upside-down”

“I wouldn’t even pay a penny to go there(Apartheid South Africa)”

“I want a house, I want a home, I want a position in society”



“When these Africans(Negroes in Apartheid South Africa) learn that they are being discriminated against and when they arise, what has been imposed on the people by law, what has been suppressed when you get the people really suppressed when they rise they shall throw away that same government.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=840XWjnt9wc


Boniface Offokaja, known as Bonny to his family, was born in Kano state, Nigeria on May 21, 1940, the first son of Thomas Igala Offokaja and his wife Susanna Offokaja. Thomas Offokaja was a businessman and leader in the Kano’s Igbo community.

Boniface Offokaja was the break-out star of the 1957 season of the High School Exchange Debaters from 32 Countries in the United States of America that year. At Sixteen years of age, he demonstrated remarkable oratory skills way beyond his age while still a student of St Gregory, Obalende, Lagos.

He was an outstanding debater among the exchange students who visited the USA that year and left a lasting impression on the American public who viewed the televised debate program among the high school students picked from all over the world. This was at a time when America was deeply battling racial segregation between the white and the black population, South Africa was deeply under Apartheid rule and Martin Luther King Jr, the Baptist Minister, was just starting the Civil Rights Movement.

During his exchange programme in the United States, he was not afraid to speak against unfairness in the treatment of people of African descent in the United States especially when his debates were televised live to millions of homes in the US. Beyond the treatment of blacks in the United States, young Boniface was unsparing in his query of the Apartheid rule in South Africa. This endeared him to many of his fellow exchange students, who were equally baffled by the methods of the American authorities while in the country.

On his return to Nigeria, after his exchange programme his father, Thomas Offokaja became a traditional leader – Igwe Thomas Offokaja of Akwu-ukwu, in the Idemmili South local government area of Anambra State, Eastern Nigeria.

EDUCATION
Young Bonny grew up in Kano and was fluent in Hausa at an early age. On completing primary school, he was among outstanding students who got admitted to the highly competitive St Gregory’s College, Obalende, Lagos. In Lagos, he was doubly promoted as a result of his outstanding performance and graduated in 1957 (aged 17). The teenage Offokaja excelled in his academics at St. Gregory’s College and won the national essay competition organized by the New York Herald Tribune on the subject “The World We Want”.

Consequently, Offokaja was picked to represent Nigeria at the World Youth Forum in the United States of America. In the United States, Boniface excelled among high school students from 32 other countries.

Offokaja-boniface
Transition to the Broadcasting World
In 1958, after his school certificate exam, Offokaja’ s flair for writing and speaking landed him a job as a newscaster with the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC).

He cut his broadcasting teeth at NBC and was sharpened through NBC’s training programmes. At NBC, Offokaja championed workers’ rights and got into a bit of a tiff with management and the Federal Minister of Information.

The Premier of Eastern Nigeria, Dr Michael Okpara headhunted Offokaja just before independence in 1960 and transferred him to the Eastern Nigerian Broadcasting Service (ENBS). At ENBS Offokaja excelled at radio and television presentations. He moved rapidly to the top in the news division where he read news report daily and was a delight to listen to during the daily evening news broadcast.

During the Nigerian Civil war (1967-1970), Offokaja was a wartime correspondent for the AFP (the French International news agency) and had a good working relationship with Frederick Forsythe who worked for Reuters, BBC, and later became a freelance reporter.

Offokaja was under 30 when the war ended so he decided to pursue his tertiary educational dreams, hitherto unrealized because of his broadcasting commitments. He then attended the University of London, and later returned to broadcasting as a turnaround manager & administrator.

Offokaja studied History and Economics at the University of London. He obtained a degree in the History of Ideas from La Sorbonne (University of Paris).

He returned to Nigeria and was appointed Director of News and Current Affairs in East Central State Broadcasting Service (ECBS). Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Dr Michael Okpara, Administrator Ukpabi Asika and other top leaders chose him to anchor their programs and conduct their interviews.

In 1978 (aged 38) Offokaja became the youngest Director-General of the ECBS where he ran an efficient and innovative operation. He secured land for and superintended the establishment of a commercial radio station at Onitsha. This new station morphed into the Anambra Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) headquarters. The renowned Nigerian Actor, Pete Edochie was the Director of Programmes at ABC in a different era from Mr Boniface Offokaja.

Offokaja also organized in-house training programs for all staff (skilled and unskilled) and was a delight to have around for members of staff due to his wealth of knowledge and experience.

He established the University of the Air perhaps, Nigerian’s First Open University, in partnership with the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT) Enugu. IMT delivered lectures through ABC’s radio and TV resources and provided non-conventional avenues for many young people to pursue their academic and professional training.

Entrepreneurial Pursuits – Ekulo Farms, politics, and a return to Broadcast Management.
In 1984 (aged 44) Offokaja retired from broadcasting to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams. He established a large poultry farm named Ekulo Farms, at the time the biggest in the South East Zone of Nigeria.

The farm possessed not only a poultry feed mill that fed its birds and supplied other farms in Nigeria, but also an ethanol production plant.

He got involved in politics in the early 90s running for Anambra State Chairmanship under the National Republican Convention (NRC). The NRC was the all Nigerian political party established by the government of General Ibrahim Babangida and ultimately disbanded by the military regime of General Sani Abacha in 1993.

In 1996, Offokaja was appointed Sole Administrator of the struggling Anambra Broadcasting Corporation, which he turned around within 18 months.

Latter years – Publishing and a Deepening Personal Christian Faith
Offokaja spent the last two decades of his life publishing with Enterprise Today, a digital-age economic and business journal. Then, Health and Lifestyle, an informative and motivating health magazine.

He also published books such as Great Igbos of the Last Millennium and The Nigeria Energy Crisis- a Rush to Coal.

Offokaja married Sorbonne Alumna Ndidi (nee Obianwu) on December 30th 1979 and has 2 sons, 5 daughters and 10 grandchildren.

Offokaja took his personal Christian faith more seriously later in life. He died on November 10, 2018, at the fulfiled age of 78 years. He touched many lives along the way.

“Have spent 15 years studying it(Apartheid system of governance), and every day I become more prejudice against South Africa(Apartheid) I don’t need to spend a day more.”

Mr Boniface Offokaja is reckoned by many as among the great pioneer of the new Nigeria after the independence from the British.

Here are some of his memorable quotes as a 17 year old in that 1957 high school debate in New York City.

“How could you(America) be objective about African negroes, when you are prejudiced against American Negroes“


“On that point … I think you’ve read your history upside-down”

“I wouldn’t even pay a penny to go there(Apartheid South Africa)”

“I want a house, I want a home, I want a position in society”



“When these Africans(Negroes in Apartheid South Africa) learn that they are being discriminated against and when they arise, what has been imposed on the people by law, what has been suppressed when you get the people really suppressed when they rise they shall throw away that same government.”

If they review their relationship with the UK where will Buhari be receiving medical aid every time he sneezes?

kmcutez:
Nigerians demarket their country. Have you ever seen a Ghanaian demarket their own country? All the Ghanaians do on social media is to demarket Nigeria with the help of Nigerians, especially IPOB, that will be screaming, Nigeria is a zoo. Lol. Very soon no country will give Nigerians visa. Let me see how you will run out of the country after saying all manner of nonsense.

I agree with you that Nigeria is not a zoo. In a zoo animals are well compartmentalized in cages according to kind, well fed and vaccinated against diseases and open to visitors. Even zoo staff are paid regularly for their efforts.

If it were a jungle it is a case of the strong devouring the weak. Dog eat dog you might say. Nigeria is a JUNGLE

Boko Haram and FUNAM have already chosen Nigeria as it's headquarters and people expect foreign businesses worth trillions in dollars to do the same. It is not possible.

chaloskyx:
SO ARMED MEN RELEASING INMATES ARE TERRORISTS WHILE BOKOHARAM AND HERDS MEN ARE BANDITS. LOOK UNLESS YOU THINK THERE ARE NO THINK TANKS IN NIGERIA THE PRISON BREAK IN THE EAST IS JUST FROM THE SAME PLAYBOOK YOU USED FOR END SARS CREATE ANARCHY BLAME IT ON YOUR ENEMIES EITHER END SARS PROTESTERS OR ESN IN THIS CASE THEN USE THAT TO BRING MILITARY FORCE ON THEM SIMPLE. IF YOU GUYS IN NIGERIA ARE TOO DUMB TO SEE THIS THEN YOU ARE ALL PATHETIC DONT FORGET ITS THE SAME TACTICS THEY USED FOR END SARS WHERE MOBS HIRED BY THE GOVERNMENT BURNT POLICE STATIONS AND ATTACKED POLICEMEN AND RELEASED INMATES IN BENIN CITY SEE LINK TO PROVE MY CASE

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/422948-week-of-jailbreaks-over-2000-inmates-escape-from-three-nigerian-prisons.html

The funny part of Nigeria

Nigerian police headquarters and prison attacked in Owerri
IPOB: We didn't do the attack.
Police: You did. We heard your solidarity song.

Military jet missing
Boko Haram: We shot it down.
Nigerian Air Force: You didn't. The video you released is fake

Governor Ortom attacked
Herdsmen: We did the attack on Ortom. We shall get you next time.
Police: No, it was not herdsmen. It was Jukun fishermen.

Sometime it is difficult to know what to believe in Nigeria and what not to.

plusfield:
In less than 24hrs of the incident, the IGP has already concluded investigations and has arrived that it was ipob, even when ipob had earlier denied having anything to do with it. But we have countless attacks by fulani herdsmen including assassination attempt on the life of Gov Ortom, of which miyetti Allah has always claimed responsibility and yet till date the incompetent IGP is still investigating with no findings yet.
Very unfortunate

The funny part of Nigeria

Nigerian police headquarters and prison attacked in Owerri
IPOB: We didn't do the attack.
Police: You did. We heard your solidarity song.

Military jet missing
Boko Haram: We shot it down.
Nigerian Air Force: You didn't. The video you released is fake

Governor Ortom attacked
Herdsmen: We did the attack on Ortom. We shall get you next time.
Police: No, it was not herdsmen. It was Jukun fishermen.

Sometime it is difficult to know what to believe in Nigeria and what not to.

The funny part of Nigeria

Nigerian police headquarters and prison attacked in Owerri
IPOB: We didn't do the attack.
Police: You did. We heard your solidarity song.

Military jet missing
Boko Haram: We shot it down.
Nigerian Air Force: You didn't. The video you released is fake

Governor Ortom attacked
Herdsmen: We did the attack on Ortom. We shall get you next time.
Police: No, it was not herdsmen. It was Jukun fishermen.

Sometime it is difficult to know what to believe in Nigeria and what not to.

IfGodbeforus:
Danladi umar, you are disgrace to the office you hold. From one lie to another. The video is out there, yet you utter Public lie with no shame.
Anyway I don't blame you, its the lawless country I blame. In a sane clime, by now you should be jobless.

Or in jail sef

Esseite:
Atiku is just chasing clout... CBN took the best decision.

Unregulated Crypto currency is a lazy investment that tilts more on outflow of FX rather than inflow.. it is death sentence to import dominated countries.

E.g- I buy bitcoin with N10m that would be domiciled in source Nation(not Nigeria).. if it rises in 1 year by maybe 10%, I may have gained 1m as an individual, but I have starved my country economy of recycling my 10m if it was domiciled in a Nigerian bank or invested into the society which could have produced more than 10% while creating jobs.. note as an import dominated nation, the chance of loosing that 1m as another escaped forex is 95% on foreign goods while 5% I may spend on local food.

The Nigerian greed for small margins has blinded a lot of people, imagine Crypto currency trading far beyond your indigenous Stock exchange and some feel it's okay

Modified:
With all the mentions and insults, if we put this same energy into investing in Nigeria, would we be complaining of unemployment?... someone actually said he has over 1,000btc in his wallet, that's about $35m or N16.450bn just waiting to flip currency and make small margin rather than real investment that creates jobs for the economy, but we are quick to say no jobs.

Thank you very much.

Ndi uchu ndi uchu.